What is the difference between component and av

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What do the colors mean on an AV cable? Sometimes the white or the red is replaced with a black connector instead, but typically yellow, red and white are the basic colors. Component connectors feature red, blue and green for video, and typically the same red and white for audio. Occasionally, the audio connectors will be designed differently, featuring dark covers with colored bands to differentiate the red audio from the red video.

Sometimes the opposite is employed with the video cables featuring this different cover design, again to prevent confusion. The way composite and component video cables transmit video data is also significantly different. Composite video cables transmit image data in a single line-level cable where video information is encoded into a single channel. Y represents luminance or the screen's brightness, while PB carries the difference between blue and the luminance and PR carries the difference between red and the luminance.

Composite is limited in that it transmits lower-quality video. Typically, composite is limited to a resolution of i or i.