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.
Europeans: is this something I’m too SCART to understand?
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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.
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.
If I may interject here, but in actuality the system users are using is not, in fact, “Linux” but is actually GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux
You have to do it without looking tho. That said, I actually found them easier than hdmi. With hdmi, even if I have it the right way I sometimes think it’s the wrong way because it isn’t aligned properly.
Fr real. Also, am I old now? I’m not even eligible for jail yet.
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.
Those are the best connectors. The only challenge is when the audio is black instead of white and red.
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
They were faking it. When I was 12, I was pretty smart with tech, but I was not allowed to touch my grandpa’s projector. (It’s because if you didn’t turn it off properly, the bulb would burn out).
He also did some work with ibm back in the 80s, and he didn’t really like kids, so that might have something to do with it.
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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.
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.
HDMI for the soundbar? Why aren’t you connecting to it with an optical cable?
Because then you can use the ARC protocol to minimize the number of remotes. The TV will pass volume controls through the HDMI port and the sound bar will adjust volume.
Plus the reduction in magneto-reluctance and capacitive diractance is a real game changer.
Reduces planametric replaneration and effectively eliminates side fumbling of the marzle vanes.
So just don’t use the built in software. I don’t have any of my TVs connected to the internet or use their built in OS. I have a couple of Apple TVs plugged in and run everything off that. Never even set the things up beyond plugging them in and switching to HDMI 1.
There’s also the Chromecast TV if you use Android.
If you use a separate smart tv device like those, then the only thing you need to care about on the TV itself is resolution, refresh, and number of ports. Or if you want to spend a chunk of change then you can look into things like OLED. But the separate devices make the TV OS irrelevant.
My personal TV is a Samsung commercial display unit; it isn’t Roku or Tizen or whatever else. It’s still very much a computer though, it still has a network port and keeps pestering about connecting to the internet and registering it and all that shit.
I drive it with a Raspberry Pi running Kodi.
I agree with all of this, except I’d say good riddance to the silver plastic. 😅
And it doesn’t work when plugged in anyway.
What shit ass displays are you using?
And that flap broke on every tv you had, so they all had the connectors exposed and hella ugly
My plastic flap is still intact. Probably because I only ever had it open since I couldnt be bothered to use the rear ports.
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
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.
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.
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.
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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Just do it in alphabetical order. ®ed, (W)hite, (Y)ellow. If it doesn’t work, do it reverse because it’s upside down. Two tries max.
Damn that’s smart
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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Oh, there’s the problem… this TV has 3 inputs aligned vertically so I’ve plugged each cable into the video spot of 3 different inputs…
Time to power clean 100lbs of CRT back into a dedicated piece of furniture!
