sp957 wrote:I'm on the internet researching but it seems they use these terms interchangeably.
You can make basic bullet points for each, but there's always small little exceptions here and there.
sp957 wrote:"Component" would be the Red, Green, Blue Video cables with Red & White Audio I use for my PS2?
Yes, that's component. Also known as YPbPr and probably other names as well. It's all all the color info minus green. Apparently green is the most used color, so taking it out saves a lot of space. This is why DVDs are stored like this (digitally, YCbCr).
The "Y" in YPbPr is the same exact Y you'll find in S-Video. S-video is Y/C, where the Y is luma (the brightness, more or less) and C is chroma, all the color info. But instead of just having one color channel, component breaks it up into two, Pb (blue difference) and Pr (red difference). The "difference" is because it's missing green entirely. When YPbPr hits your TV or monitor, the green is added back into the picture. Whether or not green is added back correctly is what I argue, and why I question if component video is as good as real RGB. It's equivalent, but only if your TV doesn't fuck it up. You can Google laserdisc versus DVD debates to see how much different the greens look. It's also why I question if YPbPr is an actual upgrade to S-Video for retro consoles. People go out of their way to convert RGB to YPbPr, but I feel like it's not a big enough improvement over S-Video.
sp957 wrote:SCART is the European/French one.
SCART can be tricky. There's PAL SCART and well as JPN SCART (21-pin). SCART
can carry RGB, but it can also carry other signals like composite.
Sync is another thing that can be tricky. Some monitors and devices can use composite video for sync, while others need a dedicated sync. You can also have sync of green. Then there's different types of sync (15kHz, 30kHz). VGA uses separate horizontal and vertical sync signals.
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