Just came across a bunch of composite cables in a bin I was going through as I’m moving. I’ve got way too much of this kind of stuff that I need to get rid of. I hate moving.
You know how you think it’s better to keep them, just in case?
It is.
Weird obscure cable you haven’t used in 10 years?
Guaranteed to need it 7 days after getting rid of it
We just had the twin lead wire coming from the antenna on the roof, through the wall, and hooked to the back of the TV. We didn’t get a color TV until I was about eight years old. My mom didn’t like the color, she thought they looked wrong, so we had black and white until she saw a Sony TV. (Early 70s)
The old B&W TV looked something like this:
This was our first VCR. I think this was the first digital clock we had in the house, too:
Whoa… Not flashing 12:00, check out Linus Torvalds here.
LOL. That’s not a picture of our actual VCR, just one of the same model.
But, my dad was an aircraft mechanic. He knew his way around tech well enough. Our clocks were always set correctly, as it happens.
Everything back then weighed 80-100lbs.
Except tvs, they weighed even more.
Older
Wow, stereo TV, fancy.
The red one is for dangling.
I do not miss these. The RCA wires were so frail on most consoles. At least you could repair cables with spare parts from Radio Shack back then.
I am black and white TV, no VCR invented yet old.
Bitch i’m this old
Everyone saying they are older than these, but composite video dates back to the 1950s.
1930s
Introduced in the 1930s by the Radio Corporation of America, they use color-coded plugs—typically red and white/black for stereo audio, and yellow for video.
Is that old? I still have devices using tulp. Modern day mixers and CDJ’s still use tulp connections, as do proper amps.
I’m this old:
That’s old? Try this
“not THAT kind of PS2…”
Yours needed a dongle to connect to the serial port?!
And what the hell is that thing between the left and right buttons?
I’m literally watching a baseball game with the right picture in the back of my second monitor, and it’s plugged into an adapter for the left picture in my PC.
I’m 39.
I’m 39
Same. Time for a monitor and gpu upgrade mate.
Ones for internet, ones for tv and ones for sound. Never really understood what the white was for… 😆
Uh… Afaik, internet data does not use rca. The yellow is video, the white is left audio, the red is right audio (together, stereo sound).
Yeah? Those were on the ps2
I remember being so excited when my family got a box to convert composite cables to coaxial so they would work with our old TV. I got my friend to bring over his gamecube all the time until I finally got my own after a few months.
I see that and raise you computer programs you got from magazines you had to type in for an hour.
I am this many years old.What channel would you use? I always used channel three and swore channel four gave a worse signal.
In my area channel 4 had a TV station on it and channel 3 didn’t, se channel 3 was the available default for these things.
That explains the slight interference I was getting. There must have been a signal just in range to scramble things but not close enough to see or hear. Our stations were on 12, 6 and 10 and you could get PBS on 32 on UHF.
My brother/sister thank you, that takes me back. Had the og Nintendo going through that
Came here to post this.
I feel simultaneously seen and called out.
I have that exact model with my 2600!
crumbles into dust
I modified my 2600 to have compositie output instead. It also slightly improves the video quality
Came here to say the same
I am this old as well but there’s a reason I always have a screwdriver handy
Oh ye with a weak thumbnail!
Before my time but I did run across these as a kid. Even played a few games, too.
Yes.
I am SCART old
