component video

This article is about analog component video: for the processing of color components in digital video, see digital video, Chroma subsampling and YCbCr Component video is a video signal that has been split into two or more components. In popular use, it refers to a type of analog video information that is transmitted or stored as three separate signals. Component video can be contrasted with composite video (such as NTSC or PAL) in which all the video information is combined into a single line level signal. Component video cables do not carry audio.
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