By Signal Standard
| Signal standard name | Introduction year | Connector | Type | Max resolution
(X-px × Y-px (i) @ Z-Hz) |
Used for | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Composite video | 1956 | 1 RCA, BNC, TV Aerial Plug, Mini-VGA, DIN 5-pin | Analog | 720 × 576i @ 50 720 × 480i @ 59.94 |
Consumer electronics, including VCR and LaserDisc, 1970-1980s home computers like the Commodore VIC-20, 1980s-1990s video game consoles, some laptops, some single-board computers like the Raspberry Pi | Used with PAL, NTSC or SECAM color. |
| S-Video (a.k.a. separate video, Y/C and S-VHS) | 1979 | 1 Mini-DIN 4-pin, 1 Mini-DIN 7-pin, 1 Mini-VGA, 2 BNC, 2 RCA connectors, 8-pin DIN | Analog | 720 × 576i @ 50 720 × 480i @ 59.94 |
S-VHS, some laptop computers, analog broadcast video, 1980-1990s home computers including the Commodore 64, C128 and Atari 8-bit | The 4-pin mini-DIN that is most common in consumer products today debuted in JVC's 1987 S-VHS. The 7-pin mini-DIN is commonly used on laptops. Used with PAL, NTSC or SECAM color. Where two connectors are used, they are labeled Chroma and Luma. |
| SCART | 1977 | SCART 21-pin | Analog | 720 × 576i @ 50 720 × 480i @ 59.94 |
Consumer electronics, Commodore-Amiga and various video games | European "unified" A/V interface for bi-directional stereo audio, composite video and s-video, and unidirectional RGBS and data. Composite and s-video can use PAL, NTSC or SECAM color encoding. YPBPR is also available in some non-standard set-ups via the RGB pins. |
| CGA | 1981 | DE-9 | Digital | 640 × 200 @ 60 | Pre-i80386 x86 machines | |
| MDA | 1981 | DE-9 | Digital | 720 × 350 @ 50, Text only | ||
| HGC | 1982 | DE-9 | Digital | 720 × 348 @ 50 | ||
| EGA | 1984 | DE-9 | Digital | 640 × 350 @ 60 | ||
| Amiga video | 1985 | DB23 | Both, GenLock | 1280 × 400/512 @ 30/25 | Commodore-Amiga | Similar to SCART, but also includes a digital RGBI signal, Genlock clock, composite sync and +12/+5VDC power |
| VGA | 1987 | VGA connector variants include DE-15/HD-15 (canonical), DE-9, RGB or RGBHV on separate BNC connectors, Mini-VGA, DVI/Mini-DVI/Micro-DVI. | Analog | 2048 × 1536 @ 85 | Introduced with IBM x86 machines, but became a universal analog display interface. Display Data Channel was later added to allow monitors to identify themselves to graphic cards, and graphic cards to modify monitor settings. | Successor analog protocols include SVGA, XGA, etc. DVI is a more modern digital alternative. Where BNC is used, available as 3 connectors with Sync on Green, or 5 connector Red / Green / Blue / Horizontal Sync / Vertical sync. |
| Mac-II/Quadra | 1987 | DA15F | Analog | 1152 × 870 @ 75 | Macintosh | Mac-DA15F and Sun-13W3 were similar in capability to VGA. Some Sun machines used 4 or 5 BNC connectors to transfer video signal. |
| 13W3 | 1990 | DB13W3 | Analog | 1152 × 900 @ 76 | Sun computer systems | |
| OpenLDI | 1998 | MDR36 | LVDS Digital | |||
| YPBPR | 1990s | 3 RCA or BNC connectors | Analog | 1920 × 1080 @ 60 | Consumer electronics | Also referred to as Component video and YUV |
| Apple-AAUI (D-Terminal) | D-Terminal uses voltage levels to signal resolution. | |||||
| Digital Visual Interface (DVI) | 1999 | DVI, Mini-DVI, Micro-DVI | Both | 2560 × 1600 @ 60 3840 × 2400 @ 33 | Recent video cards | Almost a ubiquitous computer display link. Uncompressed video only. High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) encryption is optional. |
| 2000 | Apple Display Connector (ADC) | Both | 2560 × 1600 @ 60 | Apple Inc. Macintoshes and monitors | Proprietary connector with DVI signals | |
| Serial digital interface | 2003 | BNC | Digital | From 143 Mbit/s to 2.970 Gbit/s, depending on variant. 480i, 576i, 480p, 576p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p. | Broadcast video. Variants include SD-SDI, HD-SDI, Dual Link HD-SDI, 3G-SDI. | |
| High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) | 2003 | 19 pin HDMI Type A/C |
Digital | 2560 × 1600 @ 75 4096 × 2160 @ 24 |
Many A/V systems and video cards (including motherboards with IGP) | High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) encryption is mandatory. |
| DisplayPort | 2007 | 20-pin (external) 32-pin (internal) |
Digital | 2560 × 1600 @ 75 | Apple Inc. Lenovo, HP, and Dell systems and monitors ATI RV670 based graphics cards and NVIDIA G92 graphics cards (both as OEM optional implementations) |
DisplayPort introduced the 128-bit AES to replace HDCP. DisplayPort version 1.1 added support for HDCP. |
| DiiVA | 2008 | 13-pin | Digital | 2560 × 1600 @ 75 4096 × 2160 @ 24 |
A/V systems | High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP). |
| HDBaseT | 2010 | 8P8C | Digital | 4096 × 2160 @ 24 | A/V systems, data at 10.2 Gbit/s, power up to 100 watts | |
| CoaXPress | 2010 | BNC connector, DIN 1.0/2.3 | Digital | Machine vision and industrial camera's | Supports 20.83 Mbps uplink channel and power over the same coaxial cable |
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