RCA Home Theater System – What was the difference between an RCA videodisc and a CED videodisc?
What was the difference between an RCA videodisc and a CED videodisc?
Hi,
What was the difference between an RCA videodisc from a CED videodisc and could both a RCA and a CED videodisc be played in the same player or did they need a different kind of player for each? Because I'm writing a period piece set in the early 1980's, with a scene where a character is watching movies in these formats, and I just want to get it historically right. Thanks.
When setting up your home theater, you might be confused on how to connect the various components such as a DVD player, cable box or satellite box, audio receiver, Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and Blu-ray player to your TV. I’m going to show you how to connect each component to video and audio.
If you have a high definition TV, you’re best option would be to use an HDMI cable to connect your components to the television. However, this requires your components to have an HDMI input. Check to see if your DVD player or cable box has an HDMI input. If it does then you can use an HDMI cable to digitally transmit both video and audio from only one cable! If it doesn’t don’t worry, you can still connect a DVD player or cable box to an HDTV is using a component video cable. The back of your DVD player should have green, blue and red inputs (labeled Y Cr Cb or Y Pr Pb). If it does, then you are in business. Component video is an analog connection that also does full HD, but only transmits video. You will need a separate cable to transmit analog audio, such as a 2 RCA audio cable (usually red and white). However, some component video cables come with the 2 extra audio cables attached making a total of 5 connections in one cable. These are commonly known as 5-RCA Component video cables.
Blu-ray players, Xbox 360s, and Playstation 3s all have an HDMI output so an HDMI cable would be the connection for you. However, if you plan on using a surround sound system for audio, it might not have HDMI inputs. If this is the case, then you will need an alternative way to get surround sound out of these components.
The back of your audio receiver should have either an optical audio input, or a digital coaxial (S/PDIF) input. The best quality connection would be a Toslink Optical audio cable to the optical audio input on the receiver. Optical audio is a digital signal so you would be getting the best quality possible out of your equipment. The Digital Coaxial audio cable would be the next best option to connect from the component to the receiver. These are used to transmit a clean digital audio signal. As a last resort, if you don’t care much about the quality of your surround sound, a standard red and white RCA cable will do the trick.
I hope this helped you figure out how to connect each component to video and audio.
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