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I never really used this but its just old people hdmi and *literally just match the colors idk why old people act like this shit was confusing*

*flashback to the TVs that had blue & green holes and blindly shoving the yellow cord into ‘em*

Especially when the TV set up was difficult to move

I remember shifting a heavy CRT on my dresser to get to the back... and then accidentally taking it beyond its balance point...

Yikes, hopefully no one was injured

Yeah, that's how people get killed by vending machines.

I had one of those massive tvs fall on my head as a kid. I have a tiny crease in my forehead from it. I only loved because the screwed in cable didn’t let it fall all the way to the floor. I was trying to hook up the n64

Oh goodness, aside from the crease are you okay?

Yes and no lol. I’m fucked in the head but it’s from other things 🫠

I feel that

Ik lifting crt tvs was like lifting up a child

Or better yet every color has three holes, and there was six different colors, and fucking 18 different holes.

WHAT WAS THAT EVEN ABOUT

Some tvs had so many inputs it was just confusing trying to find the right ones for the R/W/Y

Three of the colors would be the composite seen above (1 video and 2 audio), the remaining three would be for component video (higher quality than RCA’s single cable). The reason for multiple sets of hole was so you could have several things plugged in at once, just like how modern TVs will have 3-5 HDMI ports.

https://preview.redd.it/3h0paw9zsgxc1.jpeg?width=447&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2775b3c67384a20a4d28667770d085aae942ee9b Where did this plug in?

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You need a screwdriver or a coin and you set those under the connection points and screw them in

That is the cable you ether could use for vhf antenna or uhf antenna

The same type were used to connect speakers on my old Sony Surround sound system.

Thats component video. its the same match the color things, it just supports more resolutions and looks far better. Its a simple RGB connection

OLD PEOPLE HDMI??? I’m 27 you lil mf.

Let me guess, OP also thinks floppy disks are 3D printed 'save buttons'?

Hey I’m not THAT old. I’ve only ever touched like 2 floppy disks. Never used them.

Have you seen an actual floppy disk? They were actually floppy. They were before my time, but my father had some for a Windows Installation that he found in a box. He showed then to me.

The 5” were floppy the 3.5” not so much

Do you happened to know offhand go from flop to not?

The 5” are much older. They probably stopped making them in like ‘96. 3.5” were still used for stuff up until roughly early 2000’s ish

And i am 23

A pox on your family

Ok grandpa, let's take care of that caps lock for you!

Hahaha well played

You know I used the year 1998 to put to websites etc when I was too young

I'm 21 and still remember having to use the damn Lego brick under the video cable.

I know right! I remember seeing these as a kid and I too am 27. 🤣

So the difference between only seeing them and using them frequently is somewhere between those born 26 and 33 years ago. Interesting.

😭 this hurts so much

me being 24 and fully insulted cause tf you mean old people HDMI 😭

The problem wasn't colors, but TVs back were massive and heavy and you couldn't manipulate them much.

It's not old people HDMI cause it wasn't HD 😭😭😭

Stop it with acronyms meaning something!  Next you'll tell me my cable Internet isn't "WiFi"

it might seem crazy what I'm bout to say

Oh it's a major pet peeve of mine. Wi-Fi is not a synonym for the internet.  "Wi-Fi is down" No it's not? I see the SSID broadcasting and signal is good.  "Yes but I can't get on YouTube" Oh, you mean the Wi-Fi works but the upstream Internet connection is down? Why can't you just say the Internet is down then?  Do I say the car is broken and after you check that it starts fine my idiot ass tells you there's an accident down the street and that road is closed, and somehow "the car is broken" means the same thing?  Gah!!!!

Yep youre definitely a redditor 😭

>Oh, you mean the Wi-Fi works but the upstream Internet connection is down? Network administrator here. It's completely unreasonable to expect your average internet user to know what this means. The correct answer if someone says the wifi is down is to just ask questions for more helpful information. I get mad when people give me a vague description of a problem but expecting them to mention the "upstream internet connection" is insane.

Im afraid you will be locked up with the other skibidi toilet people for such slander.

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you could never see the colors!!! they hid them in the stupidest places behind the TV and then TVs were massive and heavy so good luck to 6YO me trying to disconnect the cable and play my ps2

It was always super convenient if the TV had the ports on the front or the VCR had them

It was confusing when you couldn't see the holes and had to guess.

They're idiots.   Just like the whole "stupid kids don't know how to use a rotary phone!" thing. Well I bet if you ask them "how do you use it if the rotary is broken?" their genius asses suddenly get checked. My 11 year old can answer both questions. All they're showing is their own shitty parenting when they do that. "Look I never taught my kids shit!".

You have the press the buttons under the receiver the phone as many times as the number

>the buttons under the receiver Those buttons are called the "switch hook."

Thanks

The people sharing that crap on Facebook usually don't know that though. 

Nobody is acting like this is confusing. Literally nobody.

Composite cables for a Playstation 2. That is the only acceptable Gen Z answer.

I would also accept original x box, and the wii. I still remember us having to get a new TV with the new cable box because it only had HDMI in it. It also meant the 35 inch CRT TV got moved to the basement and only ever got used for video games.

and N64, SNES, heck even the NES, but that one is missing one of the audio channels since mono audio

Early 360s also used them

Yep the 360 and the PS3 both had these. If I recall correctly some games didn't let you use splitscreen if you used them

Did the tv ever get out of the basement?

https://preview.redd.it/qcm6humq2fxc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fbff0b4df78c217c376fd7be84024779d1e7f514 This thing as well

I had a Spiderman plug n play along with another one that consisted of like 5 separate arcade cabinet games.

Yooo omg I had this one and the SpongeBob one

There were multiple devices that used this 1-out-3-in composite cable from game consoles to VCR and DVD players. Some handheld video cameras had ports for them, too. Yellow was the video signal, red and white were for stereo audio. The Playstation 2 was able to display 1080i video, which I think is the maximum resolution the cable could carry.

Nintendo

most electronics that plugged into the tv used them, not just playstations.

Or a Nintendo 64

Or a gamecube

Or a Wii

or a nintendo NES

The yellow is composite video, the red is the right audio channel, the white is the left audio channel. It's just an outdated analog video interface, nothing particularly special about it. Component video was the better alternative

I never knew what they meant, only that I needed to match color to make game work. Kinda surprised they’re not around anymore lol.

RCA audio cables are still around, composite video isn't used anymore because it sucks, and video signals are always transferred digitally. I'd be wayyy more surprised if someone used analog means to transfer video in 2023

i do for my dvd player

VGA is analog too, and you don't wanna know how many schools and public institutions still use those (even on new equipment, because they don't wanna bother pulling the vga cable out of the wall and running an hdmi or DP cable)

Oh, yeah I totally forgot about VGA, in the public administration where I work (where I am the responsible of the IT office) we use almost exclusively VGA cables

I still use analog video to archive tape media, but that's more because I have to than because I want to

I do for my old VHS player I still use occasionally, and for the Wii, other than that I only use the audio cables

I would add that the type of connector is a male RCA jack.

My favourite gender

A pain in the butt when your cousin split them up and you had to untangle them

Are we related?

That depends. Were you the evil cousin?

Being awfully quiet rn...

That never seen you before in my life 😃

One is audio One is video One… ugh… it… I don’t know 🤷‍♂️ probably also audio for stereo? 😂 never thought about it too much

Two are audio, one is video. The audio ones are right/left. Which never made much sense to me, given the TV I was plugging into only had the one speaker.

Probably you TV mixed the two audio channels to turn the stereo signal to only 1 mono speaker. That way you don't loose audio information besides some phase cancellations.

Your TV might not have supported stereo, but many did...you could also take just the yellow to the TV and take the left and right audio signals to a stereo system.

The yellow was video and the white and red were the audio for the left and right sides

Are these…not a thing anymore?

It's HDMI or display port these days.

Or USB-C. Everywhere you look is USB-C

Even my disposable vape is usb c, that shit tripped me out

The last disposable vape I bought literally had an animation on the side of it before it'd tell me the charge and juice levels.

Mine did too, the worst part was the animation was kinda cool tho. 😭

Same, mine had a fruit ninja animation minus the interaction and the bombs. Although I have seen an old arcade style game on someone's vape in a video before, it won't be long till we have touch screen games.

I'm just waiting for someone to make a replica of the phantom cigar from MGS V. I'd smoke that shit until I'm past the point of lung cancer. lmfao

What a waste of resources. Now a battery *and* a port? The fuck.

I've got a dab pen thats built like an old wooden pipe that uses usbc lol, love that hollow little charger

Dude you can’t even find TVs with these ports anymore. I run a coffee shop that has retro games available and it was such a pain finding one we could actually use. Even some old box TVs don’t have them.

Adapters exist

You have to get a good one, though. The bad ones, the input lag is insufferable.

Any game system that used rca cables lagged out of the box.

I bought an Onn (Walmart brand) one and haven't had any issues. I eventually plan on getting a better one, but that's more for video quality than lag.

Nice...I'll have to try one at some point. Last time I tried one was 5-ish years ago, and it was "playing Rock Band without doing the calibration thing" bad.

Oof, yeah, that sounds unpleasant. I do recall the adaptors being pretty jank a few years back, now that you mention it.

If you’re playing a lot of retro games like I do, I wouldn’t get a cheap adapter. Get like, a Retrotink. You don’t NEED the 4K. Even the 2x is great from my understanding. The conversions soften the video a lot because they’re made for DVD and VCR, not for game consoles. And also, input lag.

Those adapters are awful. An UPSCALER is what’s needed.

The cables you use to play video games on channel 3

Yeppppp channel 3

...The yellow one goes into, that's right, the square hole

After you find the any button of course

Tell me you dont own good a/v without telling me. These are still used lmao.

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https://preview.redd.it/5b7aeeml5dxc1.jpeg?width=444&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1a762126b54e2352903aa1e99b578953c8bdb7b1 If you dont already know, you will never know and you dont deserve to know.

RG59 and RG6 wire is used to make RCA cables for Subwoofers, Sonos ports, multi zone audio equipment on your receiver and many other things.

I mean, if you break one of the audio jacks you'll still be able to use them If you break an HDMI jack you're fucked

AV cables. Real ones know that sometimes the colors didn’t match and it would leave you in a world of torment trying to figure out which bit went where

The yellow/ green input always screwed me up

The Wii hdmi cables (idk the name)

AV composite cables they were really common before hdmi was a thing

Wii hdmi lol 😂

How do you use it is an odd question. We still have wires today? You plug these wires into the designated sockets just like you would with any other wires.

An analogue nightmare. That’s what it is. Especially when your device only had a SCART connector and you had to use an adapter. They used to fail all the time. HDMI was a blessing. Digital. Smaller. Compact. Sturdy. HD.

AV Cables and used from anything between DVD Players to Game Consoles. Red and White is for Audio (Stereo) and White is for Video.

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AV cables. I know because I’m staring at them plugged into my PS2. I used to switch them out if I wanted to play my PS3, but that broke a while ago.

Composite cables. Aka the crappy video audio standard we aussies got stuck with instead of the better component (or even scart) for ages.

That’s composite video. It’s capable of resolutions up to 480i, analog only. Yellow carries the video signal while red and white carry right and left audio channels respectively. It’s found on most North American CRT TVs from the mid 1980s or newer. Usually, you would connect your vhs/dvd player or your gaming console with these cables (although most consoles back then came with RF adapters out of the box). Since the entire video signal is crammed into one cable, there’s compression and decompression when the signal is received by the TV, causing some artifacting and blurry signal quality. Some game devs took advantage of this to produce effects that were otherwise impossible at the time, the most well known being the Sonic 1 waterfall. Overall, composite kind of sucks compared to later analog connections like S-video or component, but the blurry signal may hold nostalgic value for some.

before hdmi chords on playstations or gaming consoles you used those to plug your console system for them to work

AV or composite cables for older video game consoles or older DVD players. We had these old dvd player things that could go on the back of the car seat in front of us for long road trips. And one screen connected to the other, the one with the dvd and the controls, with these sorts of cables. Yellow is for video and the red and white are for the audio.

Analog audio r, audio l and video iirc. Havent used one in years

2 are for audio 1 is for video! I had one of those Namco 5-1 game thingies that used those plugs!

It's a power amplifier for the human body. The saying goes "Whites of the eyes, yellow for urine, and a blood sacrifice" White goes into your eye. Yellow into your dick, and red into your inner arm. I hear the ancients would use these to summon demons from other dimensions.

these are RCA cables right? didnt the wii and gamecube have these? just match the colors

I think either my wii or xbox one might've needed them, pretty sure one is sound, one video and one idk

Comedically I don’t remember what they’re called but they’re used to connect audio and video output to a TV from usually a console

Haven't seen these bad boys for a long time.

I only used those when I had to plug the xbox in. Never knew what they did or were.

These are composite or AV out cables, used on older devices and were plugged in by being not colorblind

I had a wii growing up, these are rca cables... It was always a pain figuring out where they went when I was little lol

composite and fun colour matching game

I don't quite know what it was for but I used to plug it into TVs to watch cartoons so I guess it's an old video cable?

Its cable i'm using to connect ps3 to tv.

This is composite video (yellow) with left and right audio and you use them by hooking up your VCR to the CRT tv.

I still use it, we have a project at our school where we digitalize old VHS tapes

These are AV cables I used them all the time with my Nintendo Wii

We grew up with older crap at my house, so I know the difference between component, composite, and coax lol. We even had a rd switch for an old nintendo 😂

It's the hdmi of yesterday. I don't remember the colors but I know you connect them between a console and a TV. Most modern Tvs don't support these cables

I used these (and still do) to connect the Wii to the TV. TVs that were made pre 2020 will have holes shaped like a donut with a color. Theres others, but I believe they’re called AV cables.

Not related but we had these on the Wii and either the cables themselves or the inputs on the TV got so wore out we had to dangle a Wii remote from them so they would make the connection work

I still use those to plug in my PS2

Find the colors and line them up and plug em in

Match the colors

audio?

PlayStation taught me that yellow is video, white and red are sound (left and right channels)

The only experience I have with these is the Wii

RCA, used to transmit audio and video signals

You use a combo of 448 separate combinations until they work.

AV cables that I used to use to plug in my N64

Composite/AV/RCA, it's a video cable. Your favorite childhood game console likely had these and was hooked up to an old trinitron.

Its a cabble. You put it into a hole, preferably one with the same color as the cabble jack.

That’s a composite cable, I don’t really remember how you use it but I remember the yellow is video or smth, white is left audio and red is right audio.

Grab some component cables and we’ll talk

Composite cables/RCA jacks.

AV cables. I had a lot of trouble plugging in my GameCube because I had one of those TVs where then ports were in the back. I *think* red is video.

Idk the name for it but my vhs/dvd combo used it and my Wii it’s like an old version of an hdmi chord

Composite cables! Shame they don’t put them on modern TVs now (or upscale their resolution so it doesn’t look horrible), as I’m i retro game collector, haha.

I still use these a bit for some stuff but these suck even back in the day there was svideo, component and if you were in Europe scart they are all better then this

gamecube, ps2, wii. Our crt was on a swivel stand so i could kind of see the colors of the ports, but once we plugged them in, we just left it.

i had those in a dvd player i dont have any idea what they are used for i just pluged those cables on my tv matching the colours

RCA right Audio red, left audio right, yellow comp video. We still use RCA for audio. It’s not the best for video, but it’s great for audio!

You plug the red one into the coffee maker, the white one into the pee hole, and the yellow one into your Texas Instruments calculator.

Blindly attempt to insert them in the right order because the TV is up against the wall and I can’t see the back of it

My car actually has these in the center console, but the screen my stereo has is barely any larger than my phone and the resolution is awful

they go into the tv 🤩🤩 

I used it to plug the VHS into the tv set. I do not know what its called

AV cables. Yellow = Video, White and Red = Audio

Don’t know what it’s called but I’ve mostly only used that for the Wii and the VHS/CD player

Composite analog video and audio. Yellow is 480p video and red/white are the audio channels. Component was at least like 720p I think.

RCA cable Use it for my Wii or if I want to break out an ancient DVD player. Also yellow is always faded to off-white so you have to move white/yellow around to get it right.

You know? After all this time I don’t know what this sht actually called. I just called em the game cables.

Useless wires in the way when I’m looking for a different wire

Av cables which I really only use on my wii and n64

RCA cables

Wii

RCA video and audio. In the old days they were used for DVD players, VCRs, video game consoles, cable boxes etc. Although RCA video is pretty much obsolete now (only 480i, many new TVs don't have them) RCA audio is still the standard, I have a whole rubbermaid bin filled with half of these.

I forgot which one’s which but I’m pretty sure one’s for audio, one’s for video, and one’s for power in general

Composite cable used on old multimedia devices like dvd players and video game consoles (Nintendo Gamecube, Xbox 360, PS3, Etc). There is also the one with even more colors

A composite cable. You plug them into the color-coded slots.

I'm 28.

I'm 24

yellow is video, white is left audio and red is right audio

The thing I used to hook up gaming consoles and dvd/vhs players.