Talk:Composite monitor

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A monitor is a monitor. That one may be a "composite" monitor suggests that antoher can be a "composite, component" monitor simpoly because it accepts as input, both composite video and component video. Under this premise, a monitor with a DVI interface is a DVI monitor. DIV is the acronym for Digital Video Interface. Given this, there are three types of DVI connectors: DVI-A, DVI-D, DVI-I. DIV-A carries an analog signal -- odd, considering the connector name excludes analog by virtue of using the term "digital". (DIV-D: digital, DIV-I:integrated, which contains both.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.40.33.228 (talk) 21:47, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Typically a "composite monitor" is actually a specialised piece of equipment that doesn't accept other types of signals and is intended for a particular use - basically, displaying broadcast-standard video via a baseband signal connection, generally without a tuner, and sometimes even without sound, but giving as good an image as possible and often with much less overscan than a typical television (or even a degree of underscan). Generally quite boxy and bare-bones, too, intended to be stacked in a matrix arrangement (as per a multi-camera edit suite or monitoring station) or mounted in a fairly rudimentary mobile frame. Use of the standard for computer image display was a relatively short-lived affair, and was preceded and anteceded by its technical use in TV studios, CCTV etc (...and indeed few computer monitors that could accept composite video input were limited to it, most could take some kind of analogue and/or digital RGB input, so they're not really true "composite monitors", but computer monitors that include it as an option - some even later dropped the standard in favour of RGB alone even whilst retaining broadcast TV scan frequencies). A "composite monitor" isn't merely a computer monitor that happens to include composite video support, it is an actual device class in its own right, and one that's more widespread and identifiable than, say, an EGA monitor (and rather more of a fixed standard than yer generic SVGA monitor...). 87.114.192.128 (talk) 23:41, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

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On April 7, 2005, this article was nominated for deletion. The result was keep. See Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Composite monitor for a record of the discussion. —Korath (Talk) 04:29, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)

We should see a picture of these composite cables this guy talks about, and coax for rf etc, not sure on the distinction. came here with "monitor cable" hoping to find the maximum cable length for a monitor, but boy does this page suck -- I'm glad it's tagged for improvement.

If you're searching wikipedia hoping that some random page is going to show you what a composite cable (or an RF-standard coaxial) looks like because you don't already know, you probably shouldn't be the person deciding what the maximum cable length your organisation should be using. They're only about the two most common video connector standards in the whole damn world, dude (which is why they're not illustrated, it's kind of assume you either know what they are, or have the presence of mind to click the relevant links and find out for yourself). Or at least the F-connector (coaxial RF aerial) and RCA (phono plug) versions are - your other choices being, if you're in a professional environment, the twist-grip BNC which resembles an F connector with a bayonet collar instead of a screw, and if your organisation tends to hang onto equipment for decades so long as it keeps working, the chunky UHF connector (a huge F-connector with an RCA sized centre pin).

In any case, it's most likely what YOU'RE actually after is the maximum length of a VGA, DVI or HDMI cable... which actually depends on your source and receiving equipment, quality and shielding of the cable, and the environment. But typically you wouldn't want to go beyond about 20 to 25 metres for VGA without a booster, and rather shorter lengths for the other two (I can't remember them offhand, I suggest either looking up their actual articles, or googling for them, providing you can tolerate how much such an onerous task sucks). One of the advantages of composite is that with a suitably shielded cable it can be run for 100 metres or more without necessarily needing a booster, and much further with a fairly simple signal amplifier (as it's both single-wire and somewhat lower frequency than the others)... albeit at a somewhat lower maximum quality. 87.114.192.128 (talk) 23:51, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

Unintentionally funny?

"Often, video studios will use stand-alone composite monitors since people there don't watch much TV" 81.7.224.241 12:41, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Wait, what?

"monochrome Chrominance and Luminance" ... er, are you SURE about that?

Luminance is what's used by monochrome displays, and was all that B/W broadcasts transmitted. Chrominance is what's added on top of that signal to encode colour information for colour screens... 87.114.192.128 (talk) 23:55, 11 December 2014 (UTC)