List of video connectors
Physical connectors

List of video connectors

Section Title: Physical connectors
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Image	Class or connector name	Used for	Notes

RF connectors (radio frequency signals). Generally use coaxial cable types such as RG-6 and RG-59 (except for twin-lead).

-	TV aerial plug (a.k.a. antenna plug)	Television antenna connection for most video devices outside North America. Used by early home computers and game consoles to connect them to TVs because of the lack of any other connector.	Generally not used in North America.

-	BNC (Bayonet Neill-Concelman)	Alternative to RCA for professional video electronics. Protocols: Serial digital interface (SDI) and HD-SDI. CoaXPress	75 Ω for video signal (SDI and CoaXPress) on, for example, RG59 and RG6. 50 Ω for data link, like Ethernet on RG58.

-	C connector (Concelman connector)

-	GR connector (General Radio connector)	Mostly seen on the company's test equipment.	Uniquely "hermaphrodite" connector, i.e. no male/female pairing. cf. Anderson connector

-	F connector	Used for most North American TV antenna connections, as well as satellite and cable systems worldwide. Also common in North America for early home computers and game consoles, older VCRs, RF modulators, and even CECBs due to lack of other connectors.	Once not used outside North America for TV antennas (except for satellite reception), but gaining acceptance elsewhere with advent of digital TV.

-	N connector (Neill connector)	Mostly seen on professional quality VHF and UHF cables and equipment.	Generally 50 Ω but has been manufactured as 75 Ω; difference being thinner centre connectors; not reliably interconnected.

-	Threaded Neill-Concelman connector (TNC)

-	Twin-lead	Used for older TV antenna installations in the US and various other countries worldwide. Current use generally limited to baluns to adapt 300 Ω twin-lead to/from 75 Ω F connector.	Replaced by F connector in North America and Belling-Lee Connector in other countries outside North America.

-	UHF connector (e.g. PL-259/SO-239)	Despite its name, now most commonly seen on higher-power HF radio equipment, e.g. SSB transceivers.	50 Ω

D-subminiature family[edit]

-	VGA connector (DE-15 is a common variant.)	Became a nearly ubiquitous analog computer display connector after first being introduced with IBM x86 machines. Older VGA connectors were DE-9 (9-pin).	Being replaced by DVI from 1999 onward.

-	DB13W3	Analog computer video, color and monochrome. Sun Microsystems, Silicon Graphics, IBM RISC, Intergraph and some Apple Computer computer workstations.	Obsolete; replaced by VGA and DVI. Same connector was used by 3Com for a redundant PSU on the 3300 switch family.

DVI-related[edit]

-	Digital Visual Interface (DVI). Five variants are: DVI-I single link, DVI-I dual link, DVI-D single link, DVI-D dual link, and DVI-A.	Almost ubiquitous for modern computer video cards.

-	Mini-DVI	VGA, DVI, television. Apple Computer alternative to Mini-VGA.	Often now replaced by Mini DisplayPort.

-	Micro-DVI	DVI-D dual link	Replaced with Mini DisplayPort.

-	DMS-59	twin DVI (for two monitors via an adapter cable)

-	Apple Display Connector	Combines DVI, USB, and power.

-	High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI)	High definition digital video devices (HDMI protocol)	Electrically compatible with DVI-D and DVI-I, but not DVI-A, using a simple adapter.

DIN/Mini-DIN

-	Mini-DIN 4-pin	S-Video (separate video, split video, super-video, or Y/C)

-	Various Mini-DIN configurations	Various systems and protocols - see Mini-DIN for details

Others

-	RCA connector	Widely used in consumer electronics for audio and video.	A single connector must be used for each signal.

-	SCART	Consumer electronics, mostly in Europe. Carries stereophonic sound (analog), along with composite video and/or RGB video.

-	D-Terminal	Popular in Japan for analog high definition video. Available sizes are D1 through D5.

-	Mini-VGA (used for laptops)	Used for laptops, especially from Apple Computer and some from Sony.

-	AV Multi	Sony proprietary. Combines composite video, S-Video, RGsB/YPBPR (both use same pins) and stereophonic sound (two analog channels).	Used for all analog audio and video out on the PlayStation line of home video game consoles (a few early original PlayStation models featured RCA-outs for composite video and stereo analog audio in addition to the AV Multi connector); not used on handheld PlayStation consoles or the PlayStation 4.

-	35-pin MicroCross Molex connector	VESA Enhanced Video Connector and VESA Plug and Display (a.k.a. M1-DA) both used this connector with slightly different pin assignments.	Deprecated. Made obsolete by DFP and later DVI.

HDI-45	Apple proprietary. Combines Analog VGA out, stereo analog audio out, analog microphone in, S-video capture in, Apple desktop bus interface.	Proprietary connector used on Apple Macintosh Centris computers, and the Apple AudioVision 14 Display. An attempt by Apple to deal with cable clutter, by combining five separate cables from computer to monitor.

-	Digital Flat Panel (DFP)	Used with the PanelLink digital video protocol.	Deprecated. Made obsolete by DVI.

3D model of a UDI connector	Unified Display Interface	Proposed to replace both DVI and HDMI. Deprecated by Intel in favor of DisplayPort.

-	3.5 mm (​1⁄8 in) TRRS and TRS connector	Analog camcorders commonly use a 3.5 mm four-contact TRRS connector to carry composite video and stereo audio.	Jack appears identical to more common three-contact stereo audio-only (Walkman) 3.5 mm TRS connector.

-	DisplayPort	DisplayPort is also the name of the protocol, which is proposed to replace DVI for computer monitors, and consumer electronics (such as home theater systems).

-	Mini DisplayPort	Proposed alternative to HDMI, used with computer displays: (VGA, DVI) Apple Inc.'s successor to their own Mini-DVI.	The same connector is used for Intel's Thunderbolt connector, developed in cooperation with Apple.

-	HDBaseT (8P8C modular connector)	Used for transmission of uncompressed high-definition video, audio, Ethernet, high-power over cable and various controls, via a 100 m Cat5e/Cat6 cable with 8P8C modular connectors of the type commonly used for telephone and Ethernet LAN connections.

Sentence(s)

High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) used for High definition digital video devices (HDMI protocol) Electrically compatible with DVI-D and DVI-I, but not DVI-A, using a simple adapter.

final_sentence: High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) used for High definition digital video devices (HDMI protocol) Electrically compatible with DVI-D and DVI-I, but not DVI-A, using a simple adapter.