The problem with RCA cables wasn’t the colors, it was the fact that the back of the tv was huge and you really wanted to not have to get back there. HDMI you can install by feel
You can? I can't. They have to be perfectly aligned, and I can't get HDMI or DP cables to connect without visually seeing the outlet and plug.
You have a chance to install by feel though. RCA you have to see the colors.
Ok this is true, although if I had to reconnect a device pretty often, I'd be able to feel out the location of the plugs. But otherwise, yes.
How does that even happen? 😆 These people destroying their things willy nilly
These were clearly all done by either children or by adults who never learned to moderate their use of force. All gas no brakes. Zero sense of finesse.
Wtf?
Ouch
Also some devices would have like 5 sets of these connectors. You'd be playing around with the remote and plugging and unplugging stuff until you found the right one.
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.
I agree with all of this, except I'd say good riddance to the silver plastic. 😅
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.
When I was 8 or so I watched three old ladies one of whom was my great aunt try to figure out how to connect a DVD player to a tv and just couldnt. I even told them to stick to the same row for all the cables but noooo I was a kid and they knew better, I was sent to my room. Twenty minutes later they figured it out, im 24 and still fucking annoyed at that shit.
This is why I treat kids with respect and understanding. Everyone I meet may know something I've never even considered, and it's worth the time to at least hear them out. It also means that kids tend to trust and respect me without me needing to try to assert any authority, so that's good.
I mean to be fair, usually these were tucked away in the back of a heavy, wooden TV cabinet where it was dark and difficult to reach into to match the colours, even with a torch; and you couldn’t just feel your way around the back to plugging them in because they all felt the same.
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
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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
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.
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.
Just do it in alphabetical order. (R)ed, (W)hite, (Y)ellow. If it doesn't work, do it reverse because it's upside down. Two tries max.
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.
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.
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 some asshole tightened those with screwdriver and you'd kill your fingers trying to open it
And then you get the people who rip the connector out because they don't understand screws
Those are the best connectors. The only challenge is when the audio is black instead of white and red.
Good thing this person doesn't seem to remember component cables. There was FIVE separate connectors! The horror. 😨
And two of them were red.
Look at Mr Richie Rich here with his component cables, we had RF boxes and liked it.
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.
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