In today's homes, you'll find video monitors in many places. It is common to see a television in the family room, an LCD video monitor in the office, and perhaps another video monitor in the kitchen or bedroom. In fact, you can even find video monitors integrated into refrigerators or mounted in bathrooms or hot tubs.

Video monitors incorporate many different types of connections, so it important to ensure that you can connect all the devices you use to your monitors. Popular types of connections that you will find include component, composite, S-video, and DVI. Component connections separately receive red, green, and blue signals, while composite connections receive the video signal through a single cable.

As computers make their way into different parts of the home, whether laptops or in the guise of a digital video recorder, video monitors now include connections that are common on computers. S-video signals consist of two parts, luminance and color, that are transferred along a single cable. This offers higher quality than composite signals, but is not as vivid as a composite signal. The DVI connection allows for digital video content to be transferred to a video monitor, either from a computer or another digital video source such as a cable box.

There are many types of video monitors that are now available. While cathode ray tubes (CRTs) are becoming less popular, plasma and LCD video monitors are gaining in popularity. Many video monitors also support multiple sources, as well as offering multi-display support (popularly known as 'picture-in-picture').