Yes and No.If I understand the question correctly, you want to connect your cable box to your HDTV via HDMI, your DVR via component cable (Red, Green and Blue RCA connectors), and your VCR via component cables. Your HDTV should accept various video inputs - HDMI, component, and composite (the yellow RCA connector). Most argue that the HDMI connection will provide the best quality video. Next in quality is component video. Last is composite video. Your cable box may or may not have an HDMI connection. If it does and you subcribe to HD channels from your cable provider, then definitely use HDMI to connect to the cable box. If you have another HDMI input available on your TV, then connect it to the DVR (if the DVR has the HDMI output). Your VCR will likely have to be connected via composite cable. It's a crappy signal but VCR don't provide a great signal to begin with. Most VCRs only offer a composite (at best) output, anyway.
HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) is a compact audio/video interface for transmitting uncompressed digital data
= Answer = Yes. Component cables can carry an HD signal. DVI and HDMI are the preferred ways to transfer an HD signal though because the signal is carried digitally across the cables as opposed to analoglly as with the component cables. = Answer = There are high definition analogue component interfaces around for HD televisions but they are not common. I believe that almost all new televisions will have only digital interfaces (HDMI or DVI for example). I have used some older plasma screens that only had analogue inputs, so analogue component was the only interface available. The simple answer is, if the monitor and the signal source both have analogue component interfaces, then you can use component cables. It's worth remembering that all HD sources are digital, whether on DVD or off air. There is no benefit in converting to analogue as it will need to be converted back to a digital signal for processing inside an LCD or plasma screen.
HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) is a compact audio/video interface for transmitting uncompressed digital data in a single cable. HDMI supports, on a single cable, any video format including standard, enhanced, and high-definition video along with up to 8 channels of digital audio. ~abejschwartz
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HDMI cables are not better than component cables. They are different and the HDMI interface provides features that are not available on analog component interfaces. HDMI absolutely does not automatically result in better quality images. HDMI carries a component signal for television. It's often the same component signal that analog cables carry other than the fact that it is in a digital form. The information it carries is the same as analog component. In both cases, the image quality is dependent on the signal that is output and not the type of interface. HMDI can also carry a wide range of signal formats and it is now the only domestic connector that is compatible with HD signals. Although there is an HD analog component interface, it is never seen on domestic equipment for one reason. HDMI interfaces allow copy protection systems (HDCP) to be used so that uesrs cannot extract the signal and record it. Analog HD component signals cannot be protected in the same way. The restriction to HDMI is the industry's way of protecting content and reducing piracy. HMDI is also more convenient in that it carries video audio and control data as wel as allowing players and televisions to talk to each other. It reduces set up time and reduces the number of cables behind the equipment. HDMI is limited to short lengths. Although long cables can be purchased, they are expensive ad bulky. Analog component (and other digital component signals) can be run far greater distances without problem. There are now HDMI extenders that use low cost CAT5 cables to run signals up to 100 feet or more and these often work out less expensive than long HDMI cables.
high definition Multimedia interface
HDMI - stands for High Definition Multimedia Interface.
HDMI is short for "High-Definition Multimedia Interface"
HDMI Stands For: High Definition Multimedia Interface
If you have and HD tv it will have that for hd. however you can't use hd unless you have a hd cable box. HD stands for High Definition
High-Definition Multimedia Interface
HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) is a compact audio/video interface for transmitting uncompressed digital data
High Definition Multimedia Interface
That is HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface)
High Definition Multimedia Interface
HDMI is High definition multimedia interface. It is a cable that sends both audio and video to the TV. It is used for HD and video games. Newer TVs have a port in the back for the plug-in.
HDMI is short for "High-Definition Multimedia Interface"