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Posted by Inevitable-While-577@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 26 comments
Posted by Inevitable-While-577@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 26 comments
kzlife76@reddit
Remember when people couldn't figure out how to hookup their VCR? I guess all that leaded fuel and lead paint really messed up couple generations.
Fallsfrostdew@reddit
Ive never understood this meme. Why would you want to lie to your kids about things that are obviously not true?
Phriendly_Phisherman@reddit
So much easier than trying to get that damn coax cable to screw in properly while blindly fumbling around behind the 200lb piece of furniture that was the TV lol
SoTiredYouDig@reddit
Especially if that guiding pin (is that the right term) in the center was bent a bit crooked.
JonnyQuest1981@reddit
Bought my father a digital HD antenna for Christmas. He tried it on every TV in house and could not get a signal(my parents live a bit in the sticks). He ends up giving it back to me and after I have no luck on my TV that I use the same exact antenna on(I have my own), I looked at the end of the coax and sure enough, the pin is bent and squished along the side. Once I straightened it out, perfect picture! Fuck coax cables. They are the worst cables ever invented. I can't believe Comcast still uses them.
Phriendly_Phisherman@reddit
Lol and they were ALL bent a bit crooked
YEMBOTT@reddit
I love it am an stealing it
Inevitable-While-577@reddit (OP)
I stole this meme myself, lom
Accomplished_Bit3153@reddit
yeah but...was Red RCA Right or left channel?
Puzzleheaded_Race_90@reddit
I swear, one day, I'm going to remember which is composite and which is component. I'll figure it out before they're obsolete. (Honestly, I still use both of them on one of my home setups (for retrogaming on a crt)).
Kahnza@reddit
OP is composite. Component is RGB.
Puzzleheaded_Race_90@reddit
My problem is even when that's fresh in my memory I'll still sit there second guessing myself. It should have been rca and super rca or something, because my dummy brain will never ever seem to figure this one particular thing out 😆
DoubleRightClick@reddit
Yup. Those are condiment connectors.
po_ta_toes_80@reddit
We still use AV cables at home and have a box of spares 🤣, but the thought of a big ol' fast food style dispenser at home sounds fun.
Baked_Potato_732@reddit
Man, I remember the first time I saw a red one. Blew my mind until I realized it was for STEREO sound.
Gloomy-Moose-4367@reddit
what did a scart connection do
FoppyRETURNS@reddit
Good idea!
VinylHighway@reddit
RCA red/white audio cables are still very much the standard for analog audio :)
gatsome@reddit
Besides turntables and auxiliary ins/outs, what’s really using these? I thought everything else would be 1/4” or XLR.
VinylHighway@reddit
1/4" is for music stuff, not home stereo, and XLR is only on "higher end" stereo stuff. For most people it doesn't have much benefit XLR is good for longer cable runs.
Look at my modern AVR it will be all RCA, no XLR (some higher end ones will have it) and no 1/4"
RCA is very much the standard.
gatsome@reddit
I would’ve thought banana plugs were more ubiquitous in the home theater space.
VinylHighway@reddit
Banana plugs are not a cable type. They are a termination option for standard speaker cable which is not an interconnect like rca cables.
gatsome@reddit
Then with what are you interconnecting via RCA on your AVR?
VinylHighway@reddit
Analog sources. WiiM streamer you can go analog or digital. Some cd Players only have analog. My turntable of course.
gatsome@reddit
My main point was outside of turntables which primarily go with RCA, everything else is a bit niche. So a blanket statement of RCA being the standard analog connection is really context specific to hobbyists. Most analog audio in homes is 3.5mm from modern handhelds/laptops or banana plugged from speakers. Most analog audio anywhere else is 1/4” and XLR. RCA is the one we get to avoid the most in both.
_Xee@reddit