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In the process of buying a sound and video card I, John Bentley ( talk) 00:47, 6 February 2009 (UTC), was hunting for a short Wikipedia article that would orientate me to all the kinds of connection standards that exist. I could find no satisfactory article.
I did discover the following article and template:
However, these seemed to increase my confusion. It became apparent that in this article template connectors where conflated with hardware interface standards. Understandably, perhaps, as they are intimately related. However, it is clearer, I'd offer, to make them distinct.
I did find a good article on video connection information that did make some attempts at distinguishing a hardware interface ("interface" for short) from connectors:
However, there where three problems with it:
I therefore offer this article, "Audio and video interfaces and connectors" to compliment, and potentially compete against, Audio and video connector and List of video connectors.
The template Template:AVconn similarly conflates interfaces with connectors. I therefore created another template to compliment, and potentially compete against, this: Template:Audio_and_video_interfaces_and_connectors.
I'm not clear, in creating "Audio and video interfaces and connectors", whether there needs to exist an article that;
To start off I have just listed the popular and emerging interfaces and connectors. I have done this, firstly, because it would be a big job to list all. Secondly, because it was useful to have only on the list those interfaces and connectors needed for choosing a sound and video card.
Of course, wikipedia, is not meant to be a how to manual. So I'm inclined to suggest that this article should include all interfaces and connectors. If that list becomes too large for the purposes of choosing a sound or video card (or other practical ends) then at that point a shorter article listing only a subset could be created.
One improvement in language precision would be to replace many occurrences of "jack" with "plug" (including in the tables).
Webster Dictionary: Jack: a female fitting in an electric circuit used with a plug to make a connection with another circuit
Oxford Dictionary: Jack: a socket with two or more pairs of terminals, designed to receive a jack plug.
(despite the oddity that a "female" would be called "Jack".) Layzeeboi ( talk) 23:30, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
Some form of ranking or discussion of the signal quality of each form versus the others (within categories obviously) would be useful for the uninformed (such as myself). Anyone able to help?
Skabat169 20:03, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
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