Yeah? Those were on the ps2
It’s wild that we absolutely needed 2 cables for Audio but that one ought to do for Video.
I don’t know, I kinda like that it’s 1 cable per device. Definitely easier to troubleshoot audio if a cable is disconnected, versus trying to figure out why my TV isn’t passing HDMI 5.1 through the fiber audio output to a wireless transmitter to all the speakers! But maybe I’m old school too…
Well the good news with Fiber is you can literally see if it’s passing data. Can’t see electrons.
No left and right video
You joke but the next evolution up was literally Red Green Blue for the 3 colors to make up an image
I continue to be shocked to discover things that seemed very recent to me are now a decade or two old. I probably shouldn’t be, but here I am.
still have some in a bag in my scrap catcher drawer
Does this answer your question?
Also I don’t think composite is that old tbf.
A pain in the arse to drive from modern video sources is what it is! Bought a CRT recently with a thought to using it as a cool secondary monitor but HDMI to composite adaptors are all crap!
What I ended up doing was using HDMI to VGA, then VGA to composite. This let me set a proper 4:3 resolution and the picture improved a lot. What I should have done is not bother with composite at all and gone VGA to RGB to SCART as this would improve the colour a lot, but couldn’t find the adaptors for that. Not sure how widespread SCART was, might have only been a European thing but when I was a kid most TVs could either take a composite RCA input or SCART, and SCART could carry composite or RGB.
Definitely given me the bug for old TVs though, I’m going to have to write an ActivityPub to Teletext software adaptor so I can have Lemmy on a ‘90s TV or something. HackTV looks like a lot of fun as well.
Created in 1954–1956 in wiki is correct
“created” and “in mainstream use” are two different things… composite video has been around for a very long time, but composite video on consumer electronics really only started to get popular maybe starting in the late-80’s. I worked at a Radio Shack in the early 00’s and was still explaining to people how to use it because their old VCR only had coax and they used it on channel 3 or 4. The fact that “just match the colours” was so confusing to these people was … well… yeah.
Yes
When having S-Video was the shit and knowing that the white cable never needed to be used. I guess if you wanted surround sound but the red was stereo and the white was mono so if you wanted true stereo sound supposedly you only went with the red but that was debated.
That’s not how the audio works on cinch.
Red is the right channel and white is the left channel, so you need both for stereo.
If you use just one you just hear one side.
wait, you could plug something to the TV ? the two wires going out of mine was electricity and antenna, and no remote.
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.
Beat me to it. Life got really good when I could upgrade from the small kitchen B/W set to a color one.
I feel simultaneously seen and called out.
I am this old as well but there’s a reason I always have a screwdriver handy
Oh ye with a weak thumbnail!
Came here to post this.
Easily. I had two computers before I had one that was this advanced.
I’m “turn to channel 3” old…
I’m gen z but just set up tvheadend after unsubscribing from any remaining streaming services. Learning there is free tv over the air was a shock to me
The real age here is the “turn” part of the comment.
Wait current tvs don’t have a channel knob?
Sometimes I used channel 4 if the signal wasn’t working. Coaxials were shitty.
Which is worse? Coaxials or Co workers?
You could feel the static charge shift when changing channels
Yeah which explains my hair in those days
But I just got comfortable!
Just be happy you don’t have to move the rabbit ears around till I get a good image
Anymore.
TVs had channels?
I’m old enough to remember Saturday morning cartoons, but seriously, it feels like TVs don’t really have channels anymore, and instead just have thousands of shitty streaming apps.
We forget how much TV was boring AF.
They still do if you use an antenna.
It’s been about 20 years since I watched cable/broadcast TV in my home. But yeah way back tvs didn’t have inputs for other devices, instead you had a box which you put in between the antenna or cable signal and your device which basically over wrote channel 3(why channel 3? I have no idea) with whatever your device was out putting. So if you wanted to play Nintendo you would change to channel 3 and see Mario or metroid.
It’s been a while since I’ve had to do a game system setup on an old TV, (like damn near 20 years) but I think you used channel 3 because it was a channel reserved for local communications, so there would never be “TV” on that channel. Your VCR connected to the TV with a coax cable, and if you wanted to have “TV” plugged in at the same time, you either needed a TV with multiple coax inputs (I think it was common to have 2, one for VCR, and one for satellite/aerial antenna) or a coax splitter. Early on, those RCA plugs weren’t built into a lot of TVs, so you needed the VCR to inject that signal onto coax for the TV. Lots (if not most/all) VCRs would let you switch the channel used in the settings, I think mainly to cover other regions where channel 3 was not standardized.
A local news station use(d? they are all digital now) channel 3, with both ota and cable. I remember using both 3 and (front) rca ‘input’ for my games.
I remember the coax cable but did not know about channel 3 being local communication. I thought it was just convention.
Thanks for teaching me.
I could be wrong, but I think that was what the convention was in the US at least.
Similar to how there is nothing “stopping” a web server from having a 192.168.x.x address, but we have a standard that blocks off those addresses to be used inside of your own network.
Unless you were in Cleveland…then it was Channel 4.
Really? Interesting. We’re there other places or other channels like that? Like if you were in England or India did they do channel 3, channel 4, or something totally different?
Yes. Very yes.
Reminds me, I should go through my old box of DVDs and do some cleaning.
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.
I’m this old.
But did you have separate VHF and UHF connectors on the back?
Separate nobs for UHF and VHF as well.
I believe there was a toggle switch on set controls (no remote).
