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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Imagine not being part of the SCART masterrace

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

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

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

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

SCART

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

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