This article will guide you in selecting which video cable you need in interfacing your TV monitor to your signal source.

VIDEO CODECs FOR YOUR APPLICATION.
Back in the old days when there was only analog video, there was not much concern on transmission bandwidth or storage capacity. But with the advent of digital video, it became necessary to develop video compression technologies that would fit digital signal into available media. Standard Definition video or SD-SDI requires a bandwidth of 270 Mbps while High Definition video or HD-SDI requires 1.5 Gbps.