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
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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.
You have a chance to install by feel though. RCA you have to see the colors.
Ok this is true, although if I had to reconnect a device pretty often, I'd be able to feel out the location of the plugs. But otherwise, yes.
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How does that even happen? 😆 These people destroying their things willy nilly
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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Wtf?
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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.
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.
Kids be like wtf you didn't have flashlights yet?
Torches in this context are flashlights.
... Yes... That's the joke.
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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
Username checks out
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Europeans: is this something I'm too SCART to understand?
What? We have these in the European countries (Not "Europe")
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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Component, composite, s-video and stereo sound in one cable. Although it did mean that you'd have to be careful because a cable to something like a PS2 might only implement the lowest quality of them.
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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.
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
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.
I haven't used a single TV/receiver back in the day that worked first try. You'd have to twist that one port, pull the other one out slightly, or constantly try to push it upwards to get a good signal. Kids really don't know how good they have it with HDMI.
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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.
I came into things right when they were well established. Composite and component were so reliable right before HDMI replaced it
This has nothing on component. Bring me that dual red connectors while trying to figure out which one was video or audio.
Takes about 10 seconds if you guess wrong, what's wrong with you?
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.
Seriously, HDMI is the worst connector to try to fiddle with. At least DisplayPort lets you kinda figure it out
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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.
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.
Are you sure?
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That would be great it that was standard, too many times i came across a tv that had the audio channels reversed.
Damn that's smart
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Nah uh parrallel and serial ports were worse because you have to screw the little feet in
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.
And some asshole tightened those with screwdriver and you'd kill your fingers trying to open it
And then you get the people who rip the connector out because they don't understand screws
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. 😨
Look at Mr Richie Rich here with his component cables, we had RF boxes and liked it.
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Unless you only had component connections then you had to plug the Yellow into the Green port.
Yes, seriously: https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3008/~/unable-to-locate-a-yellow-video-input-on-the-tv
Also, don't pick the wrong red.
I worked at Best Buy and you'll be amazed at how many people couldn't figure that out. I was also a genius for showing my in-laws how to select input to display their dvd player.
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Back when radio shack was there to help you figure out how to connect the thing to the other thing. The usual problem was you had the one multi-colored thing, and the thing it was supposed to connect to did not have matching colors or matching anything at all.
The only one that was hard was RGB. Any only because it had 2 reds and some cables didn't distinguish which red was which.
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