On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:04 AM, Dorian Monroe <dorian.monroe@cox.net>wrote:

> Typically all the jacks are color-coded.  Your standard vga cables that
> have been used for the last 20ish years are usually blue on the female end.
>
> DVI connections are rectangular like vga, but longer and coded white.  Dvi
> connections usually have a whole lotta pins and a single wide flat pin on
> one end.
>
> Svga (or s-video) is a smallish round connection that looks like a ps/2
> mouse or keyboard port, but its not.  Typically not color coded.
>
> Rca connections are usually used on stereo/vcr connections to tvs
> (playstations, etc).  You'll see rca cables in one, two, or three (usually)
> cables bundled together.  Yellow is coded for video, white is the
> left-channel audio, red is the right-channel audio.  The rca cables for some
> camcorders and likely slightly older equipment may only use two cables coded
> yellow (for video) and white for a mono-audio signal (no right/left
> differentiation).  On a lot of video cards, I've seen a single yellow rca
> output for video only.
>
> Hdmi connections aren't usually color-coded, I think.  Usually black
> squarish dvi-sized connections usually with a clip on each end.  Newer tvs
> that support hi def and 1080i/720p signals usually use hdmi.
>
> Video quality from highest to lowest is (in general) hdmi, dvi, vga, svga,
> rca.  I don't think you can convert hdmi to usb directly with a single
> cable.  You'd likely need some kind of signal conversion box to do it, and
> there'd also likely be a significant hit to video quality.  I have an ATI
> usb tv tuner that takes the cable signal from the wall and into the pc via
> usb.  Not the greatest, but it works well enough for me.
>
>
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>
> Sent from my blackberry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mike havens <bmike1@gmail.com>
>
>
Wow. You typed all that on your Blackberry?

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