Knowing The 3 Major Types Of DVD Player To HD TV Connecting Cables

Today we are going to be discussing the different types of cables that you normally use to connect your DVD player from it rear to the rear of your HD TV.

Most DVD players and HD TVs these days are modern and their rears often consist of different slots that allow connection of the DVD player to the HD TV for immediate synchronization and playing of media files via certain cables.

Now, many people see some varieties of this DVD player to HD TV connecting cables, but cannot really differentiate them or know how to use them properly.

The most common type of DVD player to HD TV connecting cables known by many is what they normally regard to as the A/V cable, which stands for Audio/Visual cable.

And yes you hear them talk about the A/V cable and they will normally tell you that some of their A/V cables came with 3 different head end to end colours and some will tell you that theirs is having 5 heads also with different colours.

For others, they think that those A/V cables are the only cables used to connect their DVD player to their HD TV.

But today we are going to be throwing more light on the different types of cables available for connecting your DVD player to your HD TV.

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Without further ado, we want to tell you that there are basically 3 main types of cables used for DVD player to HD connection.

1. The first one is the 3 headed RCA connecting cables popularly known as the A/V cables that we described above. The term RCA is an abbreviation for Radio Corporation of America and the 3 headed RCA connector is that common AV cable that has the white, yellow and red plugs at both end of the cable. As we earlier said, most modern DVD players and HD TVs have the RCA connection port at their rear and these RCA cable is mainly used to connect DVD player to HD TV for AV input mode playing on the TV. 

2. The second type of DVD player to HD TV connecting cable it the 5 headed RCA connecting cables and this particular one is known as component cable. Unlike the 3 headed yellow, white and red RCA cable described above for AV connection, the 5 headed red, white, blue, red and green RCA connecting cable is normally used for component connection at the rear of both the DVD payer and the HD TV. Most modern DVD players and HD TVs also have the component slots at their back and the input mode on your TV should be set to component when adopting this type of cable.

3. The last and the most digitalized of all is the HDMI cable. HDMI stands for High Definition Media Interface and this is entirely different looking cable with flat head unlike the others mentioned above with Pin heads. Most modern DVD players and HD TV also have support for HDMI cables.

Finally depending on any of the 3 types of cables for connecting your DVD player to your HD TV available to you and supported by your devices use them to connect or if all are available then use the HDMI cable for best performance.