Converting Component To Hdmi

Component video connections were the best you could get in video quality for many years. They provide a high definition picture far superior to the technologies that came before. If you are used to using the old standard RCA cable with the yellow, white and red plugs you will be blown away by the quality of using the component cables which are red, green and blue. The majority of DVD players, cable boxes and other devices made in the last five plus years use component video as their standard output. Using a component cable coupled with the standard red and white RCA cable will provide most users with the highest quality picture and sound they could ever need.

Within the last couple of years however, a new standard has become more and more common. This standard is HDMI. HDMI is a digital signal as opposed to an analog signal, which component video is. This does result in an even higher quality of picture and the single HDMI cable also allows sound to be carried in addition to video. Some of the newest HDMI cables even allow a 3D signal to be passed, which can be used with 3D blu-ray players and 3D ready TV's.

As this new, digital standard has become more common, nearly all new TVs and projectors have at least one HDMI input, and many of the newest ones are minimizing or even eliminating the component video inputs. Where does this leave you if you still have a perfectly good DVD player that only has component output and no HDMI? Well you basically have 2 choices, buy a new DVD player with HDMI or figure out some way to convert the Component video cables to HDMI. There are many solutions for converting component to HDMI.

For many other conversion types, it is as simple as buying a cable that has one type of connector at one end and the other type at the other end. This works great when both types of connections that you are converting are either analog signals or both are digital signals. In cases where one type is analog and one is digital, a simple cable won't do the job. This is the case with converting component video to HDMI. As component video is an analog signal and HMDI is a digital one, you need more than just a cable to successfully convert the signal for use with your home theater equipment. What is needed is a powered converter box. These more advanced units allow full conversion of the analog signal from the component output to the digital signal of the HDMI input and the quality is spectacular!