“Just match the colors!”
“There’s no yellow… It’s just red and white.”
“That’s impossible. Move out of the way!”
“…”
“My God.”
“What do we do now? I’m scared.”
“This is a CD player, not a DVD player. You’ve been scammed”
Not really. The cords are all the same inside, the colors are just for convenient matching of the ends.
If both ports are the same color, and wire has the same color on both ends, you’re fine. You can send yellow through a red cable. I’ve definitely had a few times where all I had were a couple of loose cable pairs and it works fine.
Video and mono sound if all you can find is a stereo RCA cable.
What about when component rolled around. Totally fucked with my young mind, red blue green instead of red white yellow. And my old man had the nice cables too, which made it really feel like I was fucking some shit up.
I remember hooking those up incorrectly and we watched a huge section of “A Beautiful Mind” in black and white… We were convinced it was a stylistic choice like a really long flashback or something for quite a while before somebody was like “Wait a minute…” 😂
Just give me my degauss button back. That sound, on-demand at a single button press. We didn’t know how good we had it.
And then it couldn’t perform for a few minutes — for another good degauss you had to wait a bit for another good one, like an orgasm
We went from the twin lead coming from the antenna on the roof, to the coaxial stapled along the outside wall, coming in through a hole in the wall near the TV and connecting to a box, which connected to the antenna in. Then the VCR comes in and the TV got a coaxial in. Then we had the RCA component in on the TV, along with RGB. That’s where CRT input ends.
There’s the TOSLINK, but I think that was only for audio hardware.
Then HDMI, and probably other ones I’m forgetting.
I was there for all of it. Including the rabbit ears antenna on “portable” CRT TVs. And, the Sony Watchman.
I’m 38, and I still remember black and white TV.
We had a couple in our house for a while. We were gifted an Atari 2600 and that was designated a lowly b/w video source. So I never played any of those games in color. Sometimes it was difficult to figure certain things out
Or the coax passthrough connection so you could play Nintendo on channel 3
I had to use Channel 4. VCR was on 3.
Fun fact, my GameCube and my NES used the same RF adapter.
God help you if you put the video cable into an audio channel. Trying to connect this shit with a dying flashlight was hell.
What’s up with the image? It’s like those weird YouTube kids videos that show cooking images with a voiceover at 200% speed taking about someone getting cancer
I think it’s just some random art. OP usually uses something like that behind their words.
Personally, I dig this one.
I remember when you had to use a screwdriver.
Mmm, yes.
I remember when we upgraded to cable and I had to get a box for the TV in my room that only had the VHF/UHF input.
Looked like this:
That laminate wood on electronics really defined an era didn’t it?
All the best stuff was wood paneled!
You’re not wrong!
Nightmares back to speakers wires that were just never long enough.
Were you there for this?
Could you mix the cables and get cool surreal colour switched versions of your shows?
Maybe, if you were rich enough to have the green and blue plugs and not just yellow, white and red. Normal composite only had one plug for video, component had three plus the two for audio.
Oh I wasn’t aware, there were different kinds of component cables. Didn’t think about sound.
Yeah red white was always left right audio. Yellow was video, then we got rgb which was yellow gonewild
Yeah component cables (the RGB ones) could be mixed up and man did it make for some psychedelic pictures.
Sounds cool.
It was. It really, really was. 🥲
Ah yes, the fun days of hooking up the dvd player to our CRT, but it was too heavy to move, so we had to trial and error all the cords without seeing the colours on the back until it worked
To be fair thats probably easier than blindly plugging in hdmi, its like usb but so much worse
USB-C has a DP-alt mode, so it can feed DisplayPort signals through that connector.
DisplayPort can speak HDMI too, so cheap passive adaptors and straight through cables are possible from DisplayPort connectors.
So a USB-C port can fling HDMI signals and theoretically a tv can have usb-c ports for everything except maybe power which would exceed spec.
I don’t know if I hate this idea or not.
