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.
I completely forgot about that but youre right. I remember plugging these cables in at my aunts house and needing to balance a vhs tape on them to apply down pressure so the signal on the tv wasnt black and white.
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
Lol
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 then you get the people who rip the connector out because they don’t understand screws
And some asshole tightened those with screwdriver and you’d kill your fingers trying to open it
SCART
Something you USonians etc. may have had to go without lol.
i can’t decide if i’m more jealous of SCART connectors or real healthcare
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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
USB beats HDMI hands down. Ever heard of HDMI Superposition? No, me neither.
(I just DuckDuckWent it to be sure.)
I would honestly disagree, USB is easily to look/feel for. HDMI is not. Most HDMI cables will stick inside of the molded hole in the plastic frames and you almost always have to plug in the connector without being able to physically look at the connector
I had two pieces of equipment to connect and when I matched the colors it wouldn’t work. I had to swap two of the colors. I think they misprinted the colors on the unit.
Those are the best connectors. The only challenge is when the audio is black instead of white and red.
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 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
Fr real. Also, am I old now? I’m not even eligible for jail yet.
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
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)
Just need to overclock the human auditory senses, duh
You clearly haven’t seen my on Caffeine
Oh God, why did you capitalize that? Why is it capitalized???
I’m afraid
You can always drag out the signal to frequency shift it or something similar. It’s done all the time in astronomy as an example to create visualizations.
Waveform example here;
https://www.ques10.com/p/26463/sketch-composite-video-signal-waveform-for-at-leas/
http://wla.berkeley.edu/~cs150/sp99/sp99/project/compvideo.htm
I guess it depends how much of a frequency shift you do, but I imagine with the blanking intervals it will mostly just sound like a nasty sawtooth wave?
In the worse quality TV, putting the composite video into an audio line would make the speakers do a short distorted buzz, then cutoff. The higher quality TVs won’t even flinch. Their internal processing was fast enough to detect the wrong thing was connected, that the signal modulation never even made it to the amplifier. But to our ears it was probably just a bunch of electronic farts.
I do t m ow what it sounds da like but i know what it looks like. It’s basically modulating for every line of your TV high is bright and low is black with a marker for each line.
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If I remember correctly it does not make ant sound. Another commenter says its due to advanced audio processing.
I can’t comment on how it sounds but I can recommend video feedback synthesis!
I’m sure the struggle the meme referred to was the inferior quality of composite video.
#betacamgang
Downvoted by #svhsgang no doubt. You know your format was never pro.
wasnt about getting the colors right (which was a challenged trying to get cables connected in tight confines…) it was about how fucking tight those sockets were, and the closer the plugs were, the tighter they were by some bizarre happenstance, so ones super tight up against eachother like that would be near impossible to shove in, especially in cramped confines that you typically had to work in.
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.
Wait, you can select it?
