Re: Question about Apple Monitors

[Roger Johnstone <roger@ihug.invalid>]

In <bsnd48$o4p$1@acme.gcfn.org> Dave Althoff Jr wrote:
> 
> To make things even more complicated, the component video jacks you 
> see on DVD players, Betacam recorders, and some new monitors are NOT 
> an RGB signal, even though the connectors are pink, green and blue.
>
> Those connectors are typically YUV component, where the green 
> connector is the luminance component, the blue jack is Y-R, and the 
> red jack is Y-B.  The result is that there is technically no green 
> component.
>
> --Dave Althoff, ][.

And to make things even _more_ complicated, some DVD players do have RGB 
component video outputs rather than YUV component, or can be switched 
between RGB and YUV output. This is quite common in Europe where most 
TVs have a SCART connector with RGB inputs on it.

-- 
Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand

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