3m Component Video Cable — 3 x RCA to 3 x RCA, Gold Plated OFC, YPbPr / YUV / RGB Lead
A 3 metre component video lead with three RCA plugs at each end, for carrying a YPbPr component picture between two pieces of equipment.
Check compatibility
Please check before you buy. This is a lead with plain RCA plugs at both ends. It does not plug into a games console: a breakout lead made for PlayStation or Xbox has the console connector moulded onto one end, and this lead does not. It carries video only and does not carry sound: there are three plugs, not five, so you will still need an audio lead. And it is a 3 metre run — please check that is the length you want before ordering.
Complete your setup
Need separate left/right analogue audio alongside the three component-video plugs? See our 1.2 m twin RCA stereo audio lead. The three component-video conductors are for Y/Pb/Pr picture, not a stereo audio pair.
Choose only what your setup needs. Linked items are sold separately.
Compatibility — please read before you buy. Fits: Any equipment with a 3 x RCA component video output or input — DVD and Blu-ray players, set-top boxes, upscalers, projectors, older HD televisions and monitors, and the console breakout leads that end in RCA plugs.
Key product details
- Length — Three metres — a wall-mounted television, a projector or an across-room run
- Connectors — 3 x RCA plugs at each end, male to male, colour-ringed green, blue and red
- Plating — Gold plated on the centre pin and the outer contact, at both ends
- Cable — Three separate leads, each insulated in a deep blue-violet jacket
- Conductor — OFC — oxygen-free copper
- Build — Moulded plug bodies with a ribbed grip and integral strain relief
- Carries — Component video — YPbPr, also labelled YUV or RGB on some equipment
About this item
Component splits the picture across three separate cables instead of squeezing it down one, which is why it holds a noticeably cleaner image than a single yellow composite lead.
The length that reaches. Three metres is the run a short lead will not make: a wall-mounted television down to the cabinet below it, a projector back across a room to the equipment rack, or a set-top box on the far side of a media unit. Each of the three cores is its own insulated lead in a deep blue-violet jacket, and the three run loose rather than being bonded together, so a long run can be fanned out behind furniture, taken around a doorway or fed through a wall plate one core at a time rather than as a single stiff bundle. The conductor is OFC, oxygen-free copper. Every plug is gold plated on the centre pin and on the outer contact, and each one is moulded with a ribbed grip and a proper strain relief collar where the cable enters, which is the part that fails first on thin leads once a cable has been coiled and uncoiled a few times.
Green, blue and red, at both ends. Component video is colour coded Y, Pb and Pr — green, blue and red. Coloured rings sit at both ends of every lead so you are not guessing which plug is which behind the television, which matters more on a long run where the two ends are in different parts of the room. Some equipment labels the same three sockets YUV or RGB; it is the same connection.
The plugs are ordinary RCA, so if you ever stop needing it for component video the same lead will serve as three separate RCA runs — a stereo pair and a composite video, for instance — provided you match the colours at both ends.
