The Difference Between HDTV Digital Cables

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Brad Bear on behalf of Expert Village. In this clip, I want to talk about the digital cable options for High Definition Television. There's a new kid on the block with digital cable options that we've never seen before. And that's HDMI. HDMI is the digital cable, it kind of looks like a USB cable, only a little bit larger. And what that does is that carries the digital signal, all the digital information including the audio, so it's video and audio in one cable, and it'll go into the back of your HD DVD player, or Blu-ray player, and into your HD t.v. set. The next option I want to talk about, or the next digital cable is something that's been around for a little while but you'll see it a lot more now with everything gone digital. And that is the SPDIF cable, or the fiber optic cable that carries the audio signal out of your HD DVD or Blu-ray player into your either your set, some sets have the optical cable in for audio, or you can put it into your receiver and that's how you would use the difference between the video from the HDMI cable and send the audio to like a surround sound or home theater receiver so you can get your sound out of your player into your multi-channel environment so you can get the true movie experience. So again this is called SPDIF or fiber optic cable for audio. And then the third is something we're all very familiar with and have been for years. But it's pretty cool that they offer this on HD t.v.s is the VGA cable. Yea, you can run your computer directly into your HD t.v. and show your favorite slide shows or home kind of movie straight off of your computer. You can also use it as a secondary computer monitor if you want to, or if you're displaying to a large group of people in a room. So again we have HDMI, SPDIF or fiber optic, and VGA."