Component Video
A method of delivering a video signal in a high quality format that contains all the components of the original image. Like composite cables, component video cables do not carry audio.
Component video is better than both composite video and S-Video for quality, because it splits the video signal into its base components, thus ensuring that there is no interference from other parts of the signal. These base components are referred to as luma and chroma, and are defined as YPBPR for analogue component and YCBCR for digital component (Y=luma, PB/CB= blue-difference luma, PR/CR= red-difference luma). The YPBPR scheme is usually what is meant when people talk of component video today.
The cables/sockets are coloured green (Y), blue (PB/CB) and red (PR/CR).
