Understanding the foundations of cable television

Asked By Marie Philips 30 points N/A Posted on - 04/10/2015

Hi!

I want to know what are the different cable equipment are used globally? What are the cables commonly used and please provide me quick information for each? What do you mean by SPDIF? What is the difference between RCA and Component Cables? What do you mean by SDTV? What is the most commonly used connector for cable television? Can you distinguish the standard cable definitions and high definition cables that are used nowadays?

Please help me!

Thank you!

• Status: Open
• Question Views: 509
• Answer Count: 1
• Vote Up 0 Vote Down

• Answer Accepted: No
• Question Category: Telecommunications

Answered By John Hart 0 points N/A #165310

Understanding the foundations of cable television

Hello Marie!

The video equipment used nowadays aside from your tv sets are set-top-boxes. We have the HDTV converters, Recordable boxes or commonly known as DVR, RNG, cable card and regular digital converter. The commonly used connectors are Coaxial, second is RCA and now we use HDMI connectors.

Common Video Cables Used

1.    Coaxial Cable – standard cable for TV.

2.    Composite Video Connector – 3 cables carry picture and a single lower quality signal, RCA plugs are included to carry analog signals.

3.    S-Video – carries standard definition signal.

4.    Component Video Cables– 3-separate higher quality signals.

5.    DVI Video – maximize the video quality.

6.    HDMI – high definition connector.

7.    Optical Digital – transmits digital signals as pulses of light.

SPDIF- stands for Sony-Philips-Digital-Interconnect Format

RCA – Radio Corporation America. Uses the Red, Yellow and White connectors.

SDTV – stands for Standard Definition TV

 

About John Hart

Questions
0

Answers
201

Best Answers
0

• Vote Up 0 Vote Down

• Posted on - 04/15/2015
• Question Category: Telecommunications