Editing RCA connector (section)

==Color coding in consumer equipment==
[[File:Output connectors for component video (green, blue, red RCA jacks), digital audio (TOSLINK), digital audio (orange), analog stereo (red, white), composite video (yel.) and S-Video (Mini-DIN) on Sony DVP-NS53P DVD player (2005).jpg|thumb|Various color coded RCA connectors on a DVD player]]
Plugs and sockets on consumer equipment are conventionally color-coded to aid correct connections. The standard<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.ce.org/Standards/browseByCommittee_6548.asp |title=Consumer Electronics Association standard CEA-863-B - Connection Color Codes for Home Theater Systems |publisher=CEA |date=February 2011 |access-date=2011-08-27 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110712090413/http://www.ce.org/Standards/browseByCommittee_6548.asp |archive-date=2011-07-12 }}</ref> colors for the various signals are shown in the table below; however, beyond 7.1 audio, the standard has degraded to a more general white/yellow, red/blue, and green/yellow color scheme for each cable respectively.

Stereo audio applications use either black and red, grey and red, or white and red RCA connectors; in all three cases, red denotes right. White or purple may also be replaced by black. Some older tape recorders, and equipment like receivers designed to connect to them, use a 5-pin DIN connector to connect left and right for record and playback with a single cable. Adapters between this connector and RCA connectors have used white and red for left and right channel recording, and blue (or sometimes black) and yellow for playback, but this is not universal. Most modern equipment with RCA connectors for recording devices simply uses white and red for all stereo pairs, whether record or playback.

While these are the standard colors found on commercially made products, cables with different-colored connectors may be used, as long as the cable itself is compatible with the application (for example, cables with 75 ohms impedance for video and [[S/PDIF]]).

{| class="wikitable"  style="margin:auto; text-align:center;"
|-
|align="right"|[[Composite video|Composite analog video]]
|Composite
|Yellow
|style="background:#fde910; "|&nbsp;&nbsp;
|-
| style="text-align:right;" rowspan="10"|Analog audio
|Left/Mono (record if 4 connector tape cable)
|White
| style="background:#fff;"|&nbsp;&nbsp;
|-
|Right (record if 4 connector tape cable)
|Red
|style="background:#fd1b14; "|&nbsp;&nbsp;
|-
|Left tape (play if 4 connector tape cable)
|Black
|style="background:#000000; "|&nbsp;&nbsp;
|-
|Right tape (play if 4 connector tape cable)
|Yellow
|style="background:#fde910; "|&nbsp;&nbsp;
|-
|Center
|Green
| style="background:#6c3;"|&nbsp;&nbsp;
|-
|Left [[Surround sound|surround]]
|Blue
|style="background:#0088ce; "|&nbsp;&nbsp;
|-
|Right surround
|Grey
|style="background:#9d9d9d; "|&nbsp;&nbsp;
|-
|Left back surround
|Brown
|style="background:#964b00; "|&nbsp;&nbsp;
|-
|Right back surround
|Tan
| style="background:tan;"|&nbsp;&nbsp;
|-
|Subwoofer
|Purple
| style="background:purple;"|&nbsp;&nbsp;
|-
|align="right"|Digital audio
|[[S/PDIF]]
|Orange
|style="background:#ffa000; "|&nbsp;&nbsp;
|-
| style="text-align:right;" rowspan="3"|[[Component video|Component analog video]] ([[YPbPr|{{YPbPr}}]])
|Y
|Green
|style="background:#6c3;"|&nbsp;&nbsp;
|-
|P<sub>B</sub>/C<sub>B</sub>
|Blue
|style="background:#0088ce; "|&nbsp;&nbsp;
|-
|P<sub>R</sub>/C<sub>R</sub>
|Red
|style="background:#fd1b14; "|&nbsp;&nbsp;
|-
| style="text-align:right;" rowspan="5"|[[Component video|Component analog video]]/[[VGA]] (RGB/HV)
|R
|Red
|style="background:#fd1b14; "|&nbsp;&nbsp;
|-
|G
|Green
| style="background:#6c3;"|&nbsp;&nbsp;
|-
|B
|Blue
|style="background:#0088ce; "|&nbsp;&nbsp;
|-
|H (Horizontal sync)/S(Composite Sync)
|Yellow
|style="background:#fde910; "|&nbsp;&nbsp;
|-
|V (Vertical sync)
|White
| style="background:#fff;"|&nbsp;&nbsp;
|}