Component Cable (Y/Pb/Pr)
Component Cable is a connection system that splits video signal into two or more components. In popular use, component video refers to a type of analog video information that is transmitted or stored as three separate signals Y/Pb/P. Component video can be contrasted with composite video (NTSC, PAL or SECAM) in which all the video information is combined into a single line-level signal. Like composite, component video cables do not carry audio and are often paired with audio cables.
Of the three major analog consumer video signal formats; composite, s-video and component video, component video is the best. Component video can be run at any resolution, unlike composite and s-video which are 480i formats, and, as a result of having the color signal split three ways (luminance and two color-difference signals), provides the best color rendition.
