Component video hookups

[JAMES X2]

I own a 2001 Toshiba 32 in. tv with component video inputs.They are
referred to as colorstream component video inputs.The jacks are color
coded yellow,blue,and red.I just purchased a Sony home theater system
which has a 5 disc dvd player with component video outputs color coded
green,blue, and red.The Toshiba tv uses yellow for its y jack, but Sony
uses green for its y jack.All the digital wiring for these connections
sold in stores has green/blue/red jacks.Including the new Toshiba dvd
players which still market the color stream brand name.The salesman at
the local Best Buy suggested just using an s-video hook-up rather than
risking the inconvenience of the other wiring not working and having to
return it. I did show him the manual for the tv and the dvd player.He
seemed stumped.I really want to use the component hook-ups .Would the
difference in that one jack color matter? They're both y jacks and
both component video. Help!!!

[Rich Clark]

"JAMES X2" <JayDEE65@webtv.net> wrote in message
news:3631-421FCE33-192@storefull-3254.bay.webtv.net...
>I own a 2001 Toshiba 32 in. tv with component video inputs.They are
> referred to as colorstream component video inputs.The jacks are color
> coded yellow,blue,and red.I just purchased a Sony home theater system
> which has a 5 disc dvd player with component video outputs color coded
> green,blue, and red.The Toshiba tv uses yellow for its y jack, but Sony
> uses green for its y jack.All the digital wiring for these connections
> sold in stores has green/blue/red jacks.Including the new Toshiba dvd
> players which still market the color stream brand name.The salesman at
> the local Best Buy suggested just using an s-video hook-up rather than
> risking the inconvenience of the other wiring not working and having to
> return it. I did show him the manual for the tv and the dvd player.He
> seemed stumped.I really want to use the component hook-ups .Would the
> difference in that one jack color matter? They're both y jacks and
> both component video. Help!!!

There is no difference. It will work fine. Sometimes the jack is color-coded
yellow because it can be used by itself for a composite signal on some
units.

RichC

"JAMES X2" <JayDEE65@webtv.net> wrote in message
news:3631-421FCE33-192@storefull-3254.bay.webtv.net...
> I own a 2001 Toshiba 32 in. tv with component video inputs.They are
> referred to as colorstream component video inputs.The jacks are color
> coded yellow,blue,and red.I just purchased a Sony home theater system
> which has a 5 disc dvd player with component video outputs color coded
> green,blue, and red.The Toshiba tv uses yellow for its y jack, but Sony
> uses green for its y jack.All the digital wiring for these connections
> sold in stores has green/blue/red jacks.Including the new Toshiba dvd
> players which still market the color stream brand name.The salesman at
> the local Best Buy suggested just using an s-video hook-up rather than
> risking the inconvenience of the other wiring not working and having to
> return it. I did show him the manual for the tv and the dvd player.He
> seemed stumped.I really want to use the component hook-ups .Would the
> difference in that one jack color matter? They're both y jacks and
> both component video. Help!!!
Heres what you need to do, hook up your DVD player and change the componet
cables around until the picture looks okay, the crominance tends to be the
same but theres no standard. Manufactures have different names for these for
some reason.
I know from going to the track that out of three cables there are six
combinatons of connecting them, just try them until you find the right one.
You wont hurt anything
>

[1shado1@sbcglobal.net]

steve99@bellsouth.net wrote:

> I know from going to the track that out of three cables there are six
> combinatons of connecting them,

Which, by some odd twist of fate, happens to be the exact number of
functioning brain cells you possess. Go figure.

Jeff