TV Accessories

Todays modern electronic technology has produced a wide variety of entertainment options. Anyone can now watch movies or play video games directly on their personal computer, and watch movies or...

Connecting your home entertainment system to be able to enjoy all of your media past and present takes only a few quick connections. Connecting a DVR will allow you to capture high-quality digital...

As VHS tapes continue to near their end-use dates, there's a growing need to transfer that data to other media types. The most versatile method of preserving the vast amount of video still on VHS...

With conveniences like ordering online and free delivery and pickup, Netflix has revolutionized the way we rent DVDs. Their newest breakthrough are movies that stream to your computer and only...

Surround systems can offer more than just enhanced sound. The latest ones use High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) 1.3 cables with deep color technology that can produce excellent color...

Blu-ray players are the next generation of home entertainment. Blu-ray discs are required to fully utilize a Blu-ray player's capability and the capabilities of a HDTV with full HD.

This is probably the most basic way to connect your computer to your tv screen. The S-Video port is very common in both tvs and computers and cheap. You may have a project, and you have to...

There are many ways to connect a desktop or laptop computer to a TV for viewing. The television can be used as a monitor or as a secondary display for presentations. One of the simplest and most...

Before we discuss what an HDMI cable is made of, it's important to have a firm understanding of what it is and what it does. HDMI stands for "High-Definition Multimedia Interface" and it was...

The S-Video cable is a connector that carries standard-definition video signal from an output device to a television. The cable does not support audio as sound has to be carried by a separate...

Cleaning an 8mm video head is similar to cleaning other types of video heads with the exception that it's a smaller medium to work with. Most manufacturers of 8mm have their own brand of video...

If you want to connect a video game console or a computer to a high-definition television, you have a number of options. Component cables are the most popular, since they are inexpensive and can...

Five different kinds of cable are available for your television and entertainment, each with varying qualities and types of signals.

S-video stands for the separated video or super video technology that delivers a video signal in two components, namely luminance (Y) and chrominance/color (C). It is implemented with S-video...

You may find the need at some point in time to display the contents of your computer onto a television set. This may because the television screen is larger than the monitor, or you may want to...

A video switcher is a device that takes one or more video signals and combines them to one output. Video switchers can be as simple as having two buttons or as complex as having faders and...

Video cables vary in quality, and each is specific to particular video applications. Here we will find out what type of cable is best for video in any given scenerio.

An audio-visual switchbox is a way to connect multiple video sources with their corresponding audio feeds, to one input of a TV. They are useful to feed multiple high definition or digital feeds...

S-Video cables are special types of cords that carry analog signals in a different way from composite cables. Instead of splitting sounds from visuals, S-Video cables split luminance from color,...

If you have an array of newer and older electronic equipment in your home, you already know that finding ways to connect one thing to the next is a big problem. Often, a format or connection...

Component cables are used to transfer video signals from components to a display. Common applications include conecting DVD players, cable boxes, camcorders or HTIB (home theater in a box) systems...

Component video is commonly used to view high-resolution pictures from a DVD player or a high definition television broadcast. Component video switching enables you to connect multiple component...

Many people would like to watch videos from their laptop or desktop computers on their TVs, but the connections between the two devices may not be compatible. There's a solution to this problem....

An HDMI (High Definition Media Interface) input splitter is an audio/video component that allows one device with an HDMI output to be connected to a number of other devices with HDMI inputs. It...

S-video cables, which were introduced along with S-VHS cassettes in the late '80s, did not have widespread use until the mid-to-late '90s when home theater systems, video game systems and DVD...

In order to convert the contents of a VHS tape, such as wedding or graduation video, to DVD, connect a VHS player to a DVD burner, but be sure to pause the VHS movie while starting the DVD burner...

VHS tapes will degrade over time due to temperature extremes, and the tape will weaken with constant play, so VHS tapes should be converted to DVDs to preserve the video. Extend the life of old...

Camcorder recordings can be dubbed to a DVD by hooking up a DVD burner directly to a video camera and burning the home movie onto a blank DVD disk. Find out how to hook up a DVD burner to a...

Before hooking up an HDTV, check the TV to see how many inputs it has and if it has an HDMI input. Hook up an HDTV to an RGB, super video or RCA connection with tips from a digital technology...

In order to hook up a PC to an HDTV, use a super video connection for the video and a separate connector for audio. Connect a PC to an HDTV to watch Internet videos with tips from a digital...

In order to use a camcorder to record what's on TV, make sure the TV has an output to connect with an S video cable. Record from a TV with a camcorder that will act as a VCR with tips from a...

AVI video files are usually restricted to computers, but there are AVI players that store the videos on a hard drive with an interface that can connect to a TV. Of course, you can transform your...

Video cables are used to connect the various modern visual electronic devices we use today. There are a few distinct types of cables that each have their own method of transmitting video signals,...

The term "RCA" refers to composite video. These video cords typically have three plugs that are red, yellow and white. Composite video is commonly used on televisions and other electronics to...

If you have a number of movies saved on your computer's hard drive and want to watch them on your big-screen TV with surround sound, you can hook up your computer to your home-theater system....

Not only does converting your old 8mm tapes to DVD make them easy to watch in any standard DVD player, it's a fairly simple process. Once they're made, DVDs are much easier to copy than...

As TVs become bigger and better, many people are starting to use their TVs as computer monitors. VGA, or Video Graphics Array, is the graphics display for computers. If your computer's video card...

Using your new Hitachi plasma or LCD TV as a computer monitor offers you the opportunity to browse the web and enjoy your digital media in a new way. But first, you have to acquaint yourself with...

This article will teach you how to hook up your computer to a TV and use it as a second monitor.

Like every other piece of technology, video cables are changing to fit the needs of rapidly developing new systems. Component video cables are used in both home theater systems and for hooking up...

This article will teach you how to set up S-video screen sharing using an NVIDIA graphics card and a second monitor or TV. This will allow you to watch videos or presentations on your computer on...

Connecting your Mac to your VCR is a pretty painless procedure, as long as you have the right connections and cables. All you need to do is find the DVI port on your Mac, connect the Apple...

Filmmakers give music an extra element by creating a visual complement: the music video. Before the video is shown to an audience, the director or artist may have varying ideas of what the concept...

The storyboard is a visual draft of a story; in this case, the story is set to music. The music dictates the visuals used in the video, thereby telling the story; or else the music supports the...

On February 17, 2009, over the air analog broadcasting will no longer available, and all over the air broadcasts will be in digital format. Some TV owners will need to install a digital to analog...

Getting the best performance out of your television means choosing the right cables and connectors. Whether you've got an HDTV tied to a thumping home theater system or just a regular TV, picking...

DVD and Blu Ray discs have expanded many people’s home video collections, and a lot of the time, the purchasers are upgrading to a new and flashier version of the VHS of that movie. They...

If you have an electronic device – a DVD player, a digital TV receiver or a game system – and want to connect it to your TV with an "S" video cable, read on to learn how to use it.

Hooking up AV equipment is a relatively simple procedure. Although there are many different models on the market, most of them use universal cables and jacks. There are three basic types of AV...

You have a TV set with only a few video inputs, but you own a ton of components to use with it. You can use a video switchbox to connect all of your devices to your TV.