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need help IDing a wire. thanks

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thats a monitor cord for a very expensive monitor.

or old. take your pick.
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looks like a Component - VGA conversion cable.

i see a RGB, possibly a Y cable and a Signal coming from that

Uses: HDTV ?? yRGB based Display?
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flip got it in 1. :)

Thats VGA -> BNC. Some Viewsonic monitors have both VGA and BNC connections.
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AceCombat wrote:looks like a Component - VGA conversion cable.
Component video is 3xRCA, not whatever that is.
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cant component use BNC Connectors?
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no

Component is Y, Pr and Pb (some will have it as Y, Cr and Cb)
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Tetrad wrote:
AceCombat wrote:looks like a Component - VGA conversion cable.
Component video is 3xRCA, not whatever that is.
No Tetrad, RCA is composite, and carries video on one wire and two audio channels on the other two. ;)
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MD-2389 wrote:flip got it in 1. :)

Thats VGA -> BNC. Some Viewsonic monitors have both VGA and BNC connections.
Yup ... I have an Intergraph 21sd95 (21" monitor). It is a very expensive one ... that cable is IDENTICAL to the one on mine.

This monitor is both old and expensive ... I paid $1800 for it in 1997 and it is still as good as day one ...
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DCrazy wrote:
Tetrad wrote:
AceCombat wrote:looks like a Component - VGA conversion cable.
Component video is 3xRCA, not whatever that is.
No Tetrad, RCA is composite, and carries video on one wire and two audio channels on the other two. ;)
Component is also 3xRCA, one each for Red, Green, And Blue, and is only a valid terminonology with respect to TV.

RCA is the name of the connector, not what it carries.

the wire in question here is a VGA cable, with seperate connectors for R, G, B, horizontal sync, and vertical sync
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DCrazy wrote:No Tetrad, RCA is composite, and carries video on one wire and two audio channels on the other two. ;)
You can use the exact same cable to hook up a component video connection.
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wow iv been trying to find one of thoes.
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being those types of signals on it, can that be used for a HDTV display?
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No, because this type transfers RGB and XY synch signals over separate channels (hence 5 connectors).

HDTV, iirc, has RGB with sync signals embedded in the G channel, so it's definitely incompatible.
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Not to mention that every HDTV tuner box I've seen uses component video output. Then again, I haven't seen many so there probably are some that use s-video as well.
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well warlock if you want it name your price and you pay shipping, i worked on a pc, that was in the bag of goodies i received for payment.
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