Are Red Yellow White cable interchangable with Blue Green Red?

Question

I apologize in advance for the lack of tech- skills and terminology.

I am trying to hook up a PS2 to a TV, and normally this is a very easy thing to do. The only problem is that I recently had to replace my cables (the colored ones), and the only ones i could get have a choice of either using Blue Green and Red, or just Red and Yellow (they are kind of on a separate wire). The hook ups on the back of the TV are Yellow Red and White, as usual. When I tried the Red and Yellow ones nothing happened, and when I tried the Blue Green and Red ones i got lines running down the screen, no matter what way i arranged the colors.

Is there a way to make these cables work so that i can see a picture?

Answer 1

The color of the cable is not important - it is for convenience.



As long as the colors match on BOTH sides, you can use any RCA cable you want.

Answer 2

Red Blue And Green

Answer 3

hmmm well im not sure you described the right cables you bought. The breakout ps2 cable you bought sounds like it has the component video outputs (red, green, blue) but you say it also has a red and yellow cable. This is confusing as it should ether have red and white, or red white and yellow. The red and white are audio (red being right channel, and white being left channel). The yellow will be the composite video signal.



So to answer your question the breakout cables for your ps2 the output connections of this cable can only be used for what they are,



red,green,blue (component video), red & white (right & left audio) yellow (composite video)



Hope that helps you



Kevin

40 years hi-end audio video specialist

Answer 4

First: The Yellow RCA jack is the video. Hook the Yellow output from the PS2 to the Yellow input on the TV. Then try to adjust the TV to get the image.



You can use either the Blue, Green or Red cable for the video as they are all 75 ohm Video cables.



The Red/White jacks are for audio. SOMETIMES the red/white cables are actually video cables, but not always.

Answer 5

The color of the cable itself doesn't matter. You just want to make sure you connect the correct color output jack to the same color input jack.



For example, if you have a yellow, red, and white RCA jacks at the output of your PS2, the yellow jack is composite video, and the red and white jacks are right and left stereo audio. And, as long as you hook the yellow from the PS2 to the yellow on the TV (and the red to red, and white to white), you're good to go.



But, component video (separate red, green, and blue components) requires three RCA cables to just get the HD video to the TV, and you still need an audio cable (red and white stereo audio, or coaxial or optical digital audio). But, it doesn't matter what color the cables themselves are, as long as you're connecting the red, blue, and green jacks from the PS2 to the red, blue, and green jacks on the TV.

Answer 6

Hi Julie -



The cable colors really do not matter, it's just a cable either way. To better clarify the connection process try this out:



GREEN = VIDEO out (PS2) ---> VIDEO IN (TV)

BLUE = LEFT AUDIO out (PS2) ----> LEFT AUDIO in (TV)

RED = RIGHT AUDIO out (PS2) ---> RIGHT AUDIO in (TV)



Hope that helps a bit.