ans 11 What is the best way to connect my VHS player or DVD player to my TV?
DVD stores a component video signal in digital format. Since this is the native video format that is stored on DVD, this is also the best format to use to display the picture, if your equipment is capable of dealing with this type of signal. Some DVD players are capable of converting their native component signal to an RGB signal, but this varies on a player-by-player basis. As discussed above, DVD stores its video information in the component form, but unfortunately the great majority of us cannot take advantage of this format. The designers of the DVD format anticipated this, and made allowances for it in the specification. All DVD players are capable of down-converting a component video signal into a more suitable format for display on the current generation of consumer display devices. The first such down-conversion step is to S-Video, which is a connector that will always be found on any DVD player. Remember that the component video signal is split into three parts; black and whit
