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need help IDing a wire. thanks

Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2004 9:27 pm
by Wang_Lo
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Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2004 9:30 pm
by fliptw
thats a monitor cord for a very expensive monitor.

or old. take your pick.

Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2004 9:33 pm
by AceCombat
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?

Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2004 9:51 pm
by MD-2389
flip got it in 1. :)

Thats VGA -> BNC. Some Viewsonic monitors have both VGA and BNC connections.

Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2004 10:41 pm
by Wang_Lo
thanks

Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2004 11:51 pm
by Tetrad
AceCombat wrote:looks like a Component - VGA conversion cable.
Component video is 3xRCA, not whatever that is.

Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2004 11:54 pm
by AceCombat
cant component use BNC Connectors?

Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 1:07 am
by Ferno
no

Component is Y, Pr and Pb (some will have it as Y, Cr and Cb)

Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 6:34 am
by DCrazy
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. ;)

Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 6:42 am
by Iceman
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 ...

Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 9:13 am
by fliptw
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

Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 9:35 am
by Tetrad
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.

Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 9:44 am
by Warlock
wow iv been trying to find one of thoes.

Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 9:52 am
by AceCombat
being those types of signals on it, can that be used for a HDTV display?

Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 11:39 am
by Tricord
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.

Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 12:55 pm
by MD-2389
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.

Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 9:54 pm
by Wang_Lo
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.