Jacob Santos

I updated my Television and Audio Receiver recently and was happily surprised at how tiny the connectors have become. It reminds me of the advanced of Serial ATA over Parallel ATA, which shouldn’t need explanation. The former has a longer length and smaller connector than the latter. It also doesn’t need as many paths on the motherboard. Depending on the back-side Bus length you can fit more SATA connectors on a board than you can PATA. I’ve found a board with 10 SATA connectors! Try founding a consumer PATA board with 5 PATA connectors. Not going to happen.

I thought the same occurrence will eventually happen for TVs and Audio Receivers and Entertainment Systems. The old RCA connectors take a lot of space, because most of the time you need two for audio to get decent sound (sending left in one and right in the other). Same with video, to get better quality, you need three RCA wires. With Digital, you only need one for either both audio and video or one for audio and one for video. I’m certain you can fit more HDMI inputs on a TV than you can component and I’m sure you can instead have at least twice as many digital coaxial and fiber inputs for a receiver.

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