Just used one a couple days ago.
One was for video, one for audio and one for colors, no?
Two stereo audio (red, white) and one video(yellow). Called rca composite.
The colours one you are thinking about was called YPbPr Component connector and it split the video signal in multiple colour channels for clearer video signal.
No, yellow is video, red and white are audio channels. You might be thinking of component video, but that doesn’t include audio in the three cables.
I’ve just read about Tandy.
Easily. I had two computers before I had one that was this advanced.
I’m this old - old TV, new for the time console
Channel 3
I had RF adapters for my NES…
I had to get a new TV since my old one had the two screw posts that the Atari hooked up to.
Definitely had this as well.
I must be too young, I grew up on this:
SCART was ahead of its time. You could control connected devices with it like HDMI CEC. You could wake up devices through it. You could daisy chain devices together with it. A TV could sent its TV signal down to a SCART connected device from its tuner! No equivalent for this exists today, unless there’s TV that do HDMI OUT! By the end, it could do 1080p!
Also, the TV didn’t just send the currently-tuned channel ‘down’ the chain, it also allowed connected devices to inject their own, synced, video back into the TV, so you could be watching a show on BBC1, say, and the VCR could overlay a box in the top-right corner letting you know it had started a scheduled recording off Channel 4. Or, if you used a device like a Selectavision, if you tuned into a scrambled channel the Selectavision would notice, decode it, and send the descrambled version back up to the TV, all without the user realising it. Those clever Frenchies.
Was it able to shock me with one end connected or is it just a false memory.
I think some old double insulated devices have power supply issues that meant that the ground/plug-shell would be energized at half mains voltage. You wouldn’t notice since the rest of the TV was wood/plastic, not metal, but if you touched the metal on the back you would get shocked.
It probably had a good reason to shock you! /s.
By design, SCART carries low voltage, not enough to shock someone. The device it was connected to could have been faulty or badly grounded and leaked higher voltage into the connector though. So its plausible.
wait, you could plug something to the TV ? the two wires going out of mine was electricity and antenna, and no remote.
My modern ish sony Bravia TV still has these. My PS2 is currently connected to them.
I am this old.
Dude, I had that but didn’t need it most of the time because on saturday after midnight on the French channels you would always get softcore porn like Emanuelle or something similar. I guess growing up in Quebec had its perks after all. Lol
I totally saw a boob!
Are you sure? It might have been an elbow.
I think you are watching some illegal channels
Yes. Very yes.
I am this many years old.What channel would you use? I always used channel three and swore channel four gave a worse signal.
Beat me to it. Life got really good when I could upgrade from the small kitchen B/W set to a color one.
My brother/sister thank you, that takes me back. Had the og Nintendo going through that
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.
This was the only thing station included up till and including the fucking Jaguar.
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
Before my time but I did run across these as a kid. Even played a few games, too.
Came here to say the same
Reminds me, I should go through my old box of DVDs and do some cleaning.
I am black and white TV, no VCR invented yet 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.
I think RCA plugs are from the thirties but they definitely didn’t have composite video back then! They were developed mid-50s.
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:
My parents had a b&w TV into the mid 80s.
When they got a colour TV it also coincided with getting a Commodore 64, so naturally they suggested using the old TV for the computer.
Funny thing is that the C64 colour palette was prepared for this. The 16 colours weren’t just random picks on the colour wheel, they also functioned as 4 different shades when shown on b&w.
Shortly after we did get the proper monitor but it still had a switch so you could still check how the your graphics looked in b&w.
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.
