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Composite Video Jacks
The yellow RCA jack is the composite video socket found on every consumer video device. Professional equipment may or may not support composite video.
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Signal Comparison
The top diagram shows how composite, S-video and component video signals are related. The device on the bottom shows the actual ports from an NVIDIA display adapter. Most equipment supports composite video as it was the first video color format. (Bottom image courtesy of NVIDIA Corporation.)
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