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Question- What's the difference between composite and component RCA cables? Answer- Component and composite video are different ways of transferring a visual signal, where the latter combines the signal into one source and the former breaks it into color channels. But that's not the question I'm really addressing here- this is for people wondering if the cables themselves are different. No, they are not. If we're talking about the actual types of cables themselves, nothing. Zip. Nada. Different individual cables vary in quality, sure, but for hooking up your home system you don't really need to go out and get cables that have been painted red, green and blue. You can use ones painted red, yellow and white just as easily, a three-set for the component video (you might want to use tape to re color code them, that's the only downside) and a simple stereo pairing for sound. It works just as well as similarly gaged component cables would. Now, the caveat- usually component RCA cables are made a little heftier. Usually. There are actually equally hefty composite cables out there, you just don't see them very often- they're used more for video assist and teleprompters and whatnot. Go ahead and use the shrimpier cables- frankly if you're worried about such a minor possible change in signal quality then you won't be hooking your television up with component cables in the first place. So trust me, as someone who has stripped a LOT of audio snakes and grafted a LOT of jacks, they are the same EXACT type of cable.
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