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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 126 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The problem with RCA cables wasn’t the colors, it was the fact that the back of the tv was huge and you really wanted to not have to get back there. HDMI you can install by feel

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com 74 points 10 months ago (3 children)

You can? I can't. They have to be perfectly aligned, and I can't get HDMI or DP cables to connect without visually seeing the outlet and plug.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 15 points 10 months ago (5 children)

You have a chance to install by feel though. RCA you have to see the colors.

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[–] Itsamelemmy@lemmy.zip 38 points 10 months ago (4 children)
[–] Antitrust7668@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 10 months ago (2 children)

How does that even happen? 😆 These people destroying their things willy nilly

[–] colforge@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

These were clearly all done by either children or by adults who never learned to moderate their use of force. All gas no brakes. Zero sense of finesse.

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[–] Spider2013@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago
[–] tja@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago
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[–] hroderic@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Also some devices would have like 5 sets of these connectors. You'd be playing around with the remote and plugging and unplugging stuff until you found the right one.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 82 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I miss the silver plastic era of AV equipment. Like in the mid-to-late 2000s when every TV was made of silver plastic, and it had that set of composite jacks under a flap on the front, so you could temporarily plug things in, like when your buddy brought his PS2 over. There was a button near the channel and volume buttons that switched between inputs, and it didn't take a digital act of congress to figure out which setting would get it to display on the TV.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 44 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Now everything is a black rectangle with bullshit software and almost two HDMI ports in the back, except one has the sound bar plugged into it, and the labels are stamped into the black plastic and not painted on, and with the shadows behind the television you can't read them. And it doesn't work when plugged in anyway. Its easier to just not have friends so that you never have to plug other electronics in. Stare at your phones alone.

[–] aulin@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

I agree with all of this, except I'd say good riddance to the silver plastic. 😅

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[–] thegoodyinthehoody@sh.itjust.works 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And that flap broke on every tv you had, so they all had the connectors exposed and hella ugly

[–] ook_the_librarian@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

My plastic flap is still intact. Probably because I only ever had it open since I couldnt be bothered to use the rear ports.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 76 points 10 months ago (8 children)

When I was 8 or so I watched three old ladies one of whom was my great aunt try to figure out how to connect a DVD player to a tv and just couldnt. I even told them to stick to the same row for all the cables but noooo I was a kid and they knew better, I was sent to my room. Twenty minutes later they figured it out, im 24 and still fucking annoyed at that shit.

[–] Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 10 months ago

This is why I treat kids with respect and understanding. Everyone I meet may know something I've never even considered, and it's worth the time to at least hear them out. It also means that kids tend to trust and respect me without me needing to try to assert any authority, so that's good.

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[–] Pr0v3n@lemmy.world 71 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I mean to be fair, usually these were tucked away in the back of a heavy, wooden TV cabinet where it was dark and difficult to reach into to match the colours, even with a torch; and you couldn’t just feel your way around the back to plugging them in because they all felt the same.

[–] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Kids be like wtf you didn't have flashlights yet?

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[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 66 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The best part was the color coding. You'd crawl back there and hook it up and your grandparents would look at you like you were a wizard

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Username checks out

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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 54 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Europeans: is this something I'm too SCART to understand?

[–] Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world 39 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What? We have these in the European countries (Not "Europe")

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Anything during the 90s to early 00s sold in Europe came with a SCART connector as the main AV connector. If it wasn't a direct-from-the-unit SCART cable, there would have been an adapter block to turn the RCA into SCART.

It wasn't uncommon for cheap TVs to only have RF and SCART.

Also "is this something I'm too X to understand" is a meme format, I'm aware of other connectors.

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[–] menemen@lemmy.world 35 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The struggle was, when the power was already attached and not easily reached without moving furniture and you had to switch something, thus trying to this without seeing.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Idk about everyone else but these were heavy-ass blocks of metal and plastic that were placed on these tiny-ass desks that felt like they'd tip over if I turned them around enough. I literally had to put my head against the wall to be able to see between the little gap I had to work with. lol

[–] TheBlackLounge@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago (2 children)

They're often too tight or too loose, and you have to reach behind closets so you can't see the color to match, and you have to put them in at weird angles.

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[–] EdgeRunner@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The struggle was to get the wires and to plug different devices, with differents standards, between them.

Today just go amazon, eBay, I don't know what else, and you get directly the good line, with the good input/output.

Today the standardization is also well done.
Its just plug n play literraly.

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[–] Asswaterpirate@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Just do it in alphabetical order. (R)ed, (W)hite, (Y)ellow. If it doesn't work, do it reverse because it's upside down. Two tries max.

[–] painfulasterisk@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Exactly, is similar to plug in an USB-A, two tries max.

I thought this was implied and there was no need to add "/s" since we all struggle with this type of USB configuration.

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[–] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Nah uh parrallel and serial ports were worse because you have to screw the little feet in

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago

I remember trying to plug them in and feeling like I'm screwing it in, and letting pressure off and it just flops out. Break time.

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 10 months ago

And some asshole tightened those with screwdriver and you'd kill your fingers trying to open it

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 8 points 10 months ago

And then you get the people who rip the connector out because they don't understand screws

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Imagine not being part of the SCART masterrace

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[–] Boxtifer@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This has nothing on component. Bring me that dual red connectors while trying to figure out which one was video or audio.

[–] kerrypacker@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Takes about 10 seconds if you guess wrong, what's wrong with you?

[–] Buffaloaf@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago (3 children)

And every component cord I've used had some way of separating the two audio cords from the three video cords. I've struggled more trying to figure out which way is up on an HDMI.

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 16 points 10 months ago

Those are the best connectors. The only challenge is when the audio is black instead of white and red.

[–] mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Good thing this person doesn't seem to remember component cables. There was FIVE separate connectors! The horror. 😨

[–] krakenx@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Look at Mr Richie Rich here with his component cables, we had RF boxes and liked it.

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[–] Peter1986C@lemmings.world 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

SCART

Something you USonians etc. may have had to go without lol.

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[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

I've scrolled past this meme countless times, but somehow I didn't think of this before now: What does an composite video signal sound like?Anyone have the hardware to test it out and record the sound for me?

I've opened serial terminals to serial mice, and I've abused /dev/dsp with random binaries I've fancied at the moment, but it never dawned on me to plug the red or white RCA jack into the yellow port in the mame of science, and now I only have audio RCA..

EDIT: Composite video, not s-video

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago (5 children)

S-video was a mini DIN connector which wouldn't have fit into one of these RCA jacks.

If you'd put composite video (the yellow RCA cable in this setup) into one of the audio jacks, pretty much all TVs would not do anything with it as an incompatible signal. If they actually tried to turn it into something, it wouldn't be audible. Composite video generates a signal at something like 5-10Mhz, human hearing tops out around 20Khz (250-500x lower)

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