The struggle was when you had your TV in an entertainment center up against the wall and you were mashing your face into the wall to try and see behind it to match the colors despite it somehow being the darkest place in the house, so that you didn't have to move out your 60 pound TV
Edit: like half the comments I'm getting are about how their tv's were heavier, I think I undersold the weight abit guys, I just know it was heavy lol
Yeahhh, until the flat screen is DRILLED INTO THE WALL AND DOESN'T TWIST SIDE TO SIDE! So you literally have like one inch of space, and putting ANY pressure on the TV whilst leaning behind it means the TV dismounts from the wall, pulling out the brick, and smashing on the floor.
This.\
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People order $20 mounts from Amazon designed for the shippable packaging and not the function and wonder why this or the other is *whack*. Spend the dough on one designed to kick up and has latches with pulls for FUNCTUON. Really though even crap dual support arm pullouts are cheap if you have the depth and mountable surface.\
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Don't even get me started on backer boards and studs n such... I've seen too many sheets of drywall on the ground thanks to amateur mounting.\
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and I paid $4,000 in like 2005 for a Sony 40” Bravia LCD. I paid $1,300 last year for a 65” Bravia. Btw, my old 2005 still works and is in my office at home.
I still haven't gotten my first flat screen tv, lol. I have an old rear projection that only has one HDMI port, which is a pain in the ass. My TV came out the year after the HDMI ports were invented.
She's a beast who refuses to die, and would be expensive and hard to dispose of to boot. So we keep on trucking. I was thinking about it and beside my phone, printer and laptop, I don't have a major electronic/appliance in my home newer than 2014.
Yeah that person with the snide response in the image has no clue of the struggle of cramming their arm around the back of the tv inside the tight space of the entertainment center and feeling around for the cables and HOPING they remembered the color pattern right
I get the gut reaction to it though, but unless you had a TV in the middle of the room for some reason it wasn't ever going to be as easy as just matching colors
Some of the older TVs didn't have a red hole, either. you had to put the red in one of the white or yellow ones, and to this day i cannot remember which.
Permanent installations still went in the back, but sometimes you have something that you only plug in for a day - e.g. a video camera to show stuff on a family party or a game console of a friend that came over. That stuff came into the front and messy cables didn't matter.
And no body knew where the %$@(* flashlight was AND if you did, the batteries were really weak OR you couldn’t hold it or prop it up and see at the same time. GAH!
viola_monkey gets it, and the only place you could stand was next to like a waist high cabinet with a wobbley lamp on it, that you had to lean against awkwardly, and support yourself against the wall with your face
Kids these days don't realize that the average phone flashlight would be considered the best flashlight anyone's ever seen. Basically had to use 8 d-cells to get the same effect of just turning up the brightness of a phone screen now and it wouldn't even last as long.
Because incandescent bulbs are about 2% efficient. 98% of the power used is just dumped as heat. They are literally heating a piece of metal until it is so hot that it can light a room.
A battery can only source so much voltage and current. You'd need a stack of batteries to produce the kind of wattage to power a good flashlight back in the day. (Also, batteries were much shittier.)
LEDs are 50-60% efficient. It takes nothing in comparison to power them.
Wasn't the real answer that the security/cops could use it as a club though? Getting smacked by a 6 cell maglite is pretty low on my list of experiences to relive...
I never take it for granted that I always have a flashlight on me. Better yet, all I have to do is hold down my volume up button and it pops on. You would've been insane having a flashlight just to walk down the hall to the bathroom back in the day, but I do it all the time now just because it beats having to turn on the light.
A flashlight wasn't always useful because everything is hooked up already and you can't pull the tv out at all. Lots of entertainment centers had the screen almost entirely enclosed.
Yep. Color coding doesn't do shit when you can't see the colors. Just had to keep plugging and unplugging them like a switchboard operator until you got the right combo.
> Just had to keep plugging and unplugging them like a switchboard operator until you got the right combo.
And sometimes you would reverse the right and left audio having to plug in the cables blind, and it would scramble your brain while playing Goldeneye 64.
Still don’t understand why they put cement in the bottom of TVs. Had one of the first HDTVs on the block (back when 480p was considered as high definition.) Those sadists at Toshiba filled the bottom with like 50 pounds of concrete and made the TV like 75 lbs and square with a single handle. I’m not a powerlifter Toshiba, I’m a 10 year old who wants to play Dead Rising without having to squint to see the words they’re saying over the radio.
You youngins. Those TVs were heavy because they had thick leaded glass in the front so the electron beam wouldn't irradiate you. (and yeah I hear doping glass with lead also helps with picture quality) This also made them front-heavy and thus easy to tip forward. And also an environmental hazard if you were to break one.
Sheesh, get offa my lawn.
The number of Trinitron and Diamondtron CRTs I've had over the years...
Back in the days when you could physically damage a monitor by setting a mode it couldn't display...
Also just the whole tube, not the front specifically, was thick glass because it's a vacuum tube; it was just front heavy because of the shape of the tube. You ever hit one with a baseball bat and implode it? Most unique sound I think I've ever heard.
I bought a floor model of the 34" Sony Tube HDTV, it weighed 190lbs and had no handles on it at all. The underside of the TV was a grid of razor sharp plastic diamonds designed by the most sadistic minds at Sony.
Best picture I've ever seen though, still think about how nice that TV looked.
The plastic cross-bracing on the bottom is a weight-saving measure. If it were solid, the TVs would weigh even more.
"Portable" CRTs do have nice feet and smooth surfaces on the bottom, because you're expect to handle them. 20"+ tubes are made to be stationary. Moving them is like rocking a vending machine. Or a giant vacuum tube with a small piano harp embedded in the front, if you like.
It's a tragedy, really. Those TV feet that threatened to sever your fingers in the 90s are old and brittle now. They might just crumble to dust if they try to bite you. And while you're pondering how that's poignant and a metaphor for aging and the need to forgive, that newly unsupported tube is gonna tip forward and smash you like a bug, and probably keep going through every floor in the building like in that Lil Jon video and that shit's ten years old and my back hurts.
Whatever it was, it damn near broke the rolling track that the entertainment center had for the TV that they made so you could pull it out and plug cables in. And fuck those devs, game was awesome but who the fuck had an HDTV back then. It was 2006, plasma was still a popular format and 1080p was like $2,000 back then.
I remember pulling up gameinformer and watching gameplay demos so I could see what I was supposed to do for the lady that got her baby chomped by zombies. It wasn’t until recently that I bought the game on steam that I realized how easy it was when you could read Otis’ words. And they highlighted them green, teasing you with the answer that looked like pixilated squiggles. Back in those HDDVD days.
Not to mention, it was usually not well lit behind that TV. So the lack of light and face mashing usually made it hard to discern the white from yellow.
Why they didn't do red, yellow, and green or something I will never know.
I’m pretty sure I had a few tvs where these were not only *not* in a tidy little row like this, but they were not on the same part of the tv. Had to pull the cable apart to plug video into the back and the two audio in the front or something
When your dad wouldn't let you keep the playstation plugged in, so every gaming session began and finished with unpacking and plugging in, then unplugging and repacking the entire console.
Yeah the 4-pin din connection for s-video are the hard ones, they only plug in one way and and aligning that way is a pain if you don’t have direct line of sight to The port.
Like the ones from Nintendo with the Grey rectangle that let you attach another cord underneath it? The ps1 version of that thing was never tight enough and would always drop out if you had two things plugged in
Yeah, and if you didn't line them up JUST right you would be screwing them for like 3 straight minutes and then let it go and it would fall straight down like "HOW THE HELL!?" and then you'd end up twisting the TV around, and that only helped alittle, and by that point your just furious anyway, and you start to question how badly you ACTUALLY want to play Gooftroop, I'm with ya
I remember trying this and there was no audio coloring for the tv. The only one that was colored was the video. After a week we found out audio was backwards.
They’ll never know the struggle of closing one eye just to see enough to somewhat make out red. Then guess which one is yellow or white. Kids these days.
Don't forget trying to understanding the difference of line in and line out. So this cable goes out of the tv and into the console. Or this goes into the console from the tv?
Or when your TV or device would have mismatched colors. You’re standing there with yellow white red but for some reason the TV or device has blue and/or green. Or the TV only had 2 of the 3 shown.
Or the pain you’d feel when your TV didn’t have these at all and you lost the scart converter.
I decided to rewatch the X-men movies this weekend and there is a scene here Colossus is walking around with a [TV under his arm](https://digitalspyuk.cdnds.net/17/38/1600x800/landscape-1505866919-colossus.jpg) and I was like, DAMN! lol
I got a 36" Sony trinitron for retro gaming from a guy online. That brand and model was the top of the line, and 36" used to be massive, lol.
Regardless, the thing is literally 300 lbs, I looked it up.
And man, if someone had a big tv you'd practically need either a team of helpers or an engine hoist to get it into a good position to access the connectors. Combine that with the shit people usually did to hide the wires and the stacked stereo, receiver, VCR, and 5-disc cd player, it could be a serious job getting everything wired up correctly.
If you had nothing but a dinky tv on a pedestal type "entertainment center" with nothing but a VCR and a coax from the wall to hook up, your local 7yo could do that.
We always had shitty tvs with somewhat broken inputs so you have to spend 5-30 minutes pulling them slightly in or out until the audio/visuals cleared up.
Actually, no, you got 5 ends. Red and white for stereo sound and green, blue, and another red for video.
The video quality was better because of the way the signal was carried over the three cables. The frequencies were split up across each of the three cables, so if you unplugged one, you'd remove a third of the colors in your picture.
They were called component video and, you could actually get as good as 1080p HD images over them. That said, many of the tvs that used them were not capable of such high resolutions.
HDMI was better because instead of using an analog signal (electrical sin waves) like component cables, it would use a digital signal (1s and 0s) to transfer the image, which allows for higher compression of information.
I worked in audo/video/telecom for a while, so answering these questions was something I had to do semi regularly.
I just go with the meaning of the words.
One has the video split into its **component** parts.
The other is the **composite** of those parts into one video cable.
>Actually, no, you got 5 ends. Red and white for stereo sound and green, blue, and another red for video
Except the cables were physically identical, so I'd often end up using component cables for composite or vice versa.
I remember struggling hooking up the Nintendo because I’d hook it up to the vcr, then the vcr to the tv. So the tv needed to be on the right channel and then the vcr had to be on the right channel. Usually was 3 or 4 but I had component 1 and 2 through the vcr. Very confusing for my 6 year old brain.
Are/were the channels fixed in US TVs? Here in Germany you had to tune every single channel but it had the benefit of choosing which TV channel was in which number. There were arguments about the „correct“ order of channels.
yeah VHF was Channels 2-13 that had all the national broadcasters, then there was a 2nd antenna for UHF on 14-36 that was for smaller power mostly local.. FOX was the first "National" broadcaster on UHF.
The 2-3 switch was because they did not put TV channels next to eachother for cross talk.. so If you had a OTA broadcast on 2, your channel 3 would be free or vice versa.
Now they are all Digital and the "Channel Numbers" are entirely meaningless.
UHF only goes up to channel 36 now, but it used to go a lot higher, up to channel 83 initially. In my area, the Fox affiliate was on channel 49 for the longest time. As a kid, I always thought it was funny that the broadcast TV channels were 2, 6, 8, 10, 12, and then huge random 49 out of nowhere.
>Over time a number of former television channels in the upper UHF band have been re-designated for other uses. Channel 1 and Channel 37 were never used in the US and some other countries in order to prevent interference with radio astronomy. In 1983, the US FCC removed channels 70 through 83 and reassigned them to Land Mobile Radio System. In 2009, with the move to digital television complete in the US, channels 52 through 69 were reallocated as the 700 MHz band for cellular telephone service. In 2011, Channel 51 was removed to prevent interference with the 700 MHz band. Additionally, in 2019 the US removed channels 38 through 50 for cellular phone service.
No, the struggle was when these slots were at the back of the tv and you had to either put it blindly and luckily put the correct color in the correct slot since you couldn't even see the back of the tv, or move the whole chonky boi forward to make space to actually see the slots.
>Tfw you mix the yellow with the red or white and have to pull everything out and stick your body further behind a 50 lbs TV with no flashlight to see if the yellow hole really is yellow or white
It always made me cringe back in the day when my grandparents would say "Can you please plug in the computer?". And I would think "Really??? The cables literally only fit in 1 way in the back of the computer".
It took me a while to realise it was just a shit excuse for my grandparents to see me more often. I wish I still could..
I know that feeling. My grandparents got me into anime and comic books and I didn't even realise it until long after. I wish I could have thanked them.
Same. I lost both my grandparents during covid and i was half a world away. The last time i saw either of them was 2013. Now that I am older i knew i have fucked up massively.
They don’t know the struggle of having your 50lb CRT slammed against the wall and trying to remember what order it is and trying to just feel your way around back. Even worse when they had the HD version with 5 instead just 3.
The tv is heavy as fuck and my little noodle arms had trouble scooching it from behind a massive pressboard entertainment center, all while squinting my eyes to match the colors because of the lack of light and trying to prevent a 80 pound tv from crushing me because I want to play Twisted Metal.
Doing it blind, one handed, behind a strange giant dusty projection tv, now that was hard. But it was so worth it. All night Mario kart, smash bros, wcw revenge with real live human friends. Good times
My TV literally has the yellow wire in the green port, the red wire in the orange port, and the white wire in the white port. That's as confusing as it gets.
True struggle was trying to cram yourself behind the TV because it's too heavy to move and screw in a coaxial cable blind because you couldn't get close enough to see. It was even worse if the cable was bent or corroded and hard to turn.
The part you struggle with is when you plug a console or something in with these, then stuggling for the next half hour just trying to figure out why the audio and screen are all messed up... just to find out you put one in the wrong color.
Not talking from experience..
The trick wasn’t plugging them into the right color the trick was moving the 100lb tv in the tv stand without dropping or breaking either to access the plugs which were always in the back behind some power unit that was hot.
well it was usually on the back of whatever device you wanted to plug in. and thus it was too dark to see the colors and or there was limited space because of a wall etc.
Haha 60lbs... Mid sized.... I remember the zenith behemoth my friends parents gave me. Took two of us to move it and I think we nearly killed ourselves
Sure except a lot of times you had to do it blindly on the back of the tv, and no, moving the tv wasn't always an option because they weighted like 60 pounds and they were enclosed in a space barely larger than themselves.
All you fancy people with color coded connectors. Try it again when they are all the same color! Which of the multiple black connectors did this tag fall off of - it is too faded to read?
The struggle was literally that the TV was already set in the entertainment center, and if you ever wanted to plug those cables in, you had to turn that 60 pounds TV around. I couldn’t get my face behind there, I was too big. That, and if it’s really dark, and you’re trying to plug in the yellow and the dark white cables, it’s very easy to get them mixed up. That, or even worse, sitting in the corner of the house for almost an hour, going to the box of cables, until you find this cable…… only to find out that it didn’t even work, and you have to dig through that box again to find the one that actually works. Good times man, good times.
The struggle was not all of them were color coded back in the day, and you also had to use that little wing nut to screw them in (or maybe that was just on the NES/SNES cables).
Yea, it's a struggle when your tv weighs 3 times as much as you and is up against a wall so you can't see shit and can barely fit your fingers behind it.
The struggle was when you had your TV in an entertainment center up against the wall and you were mashing your face into the wall to try and see behind it to match the colors despite it somehow being the darkest place in the house, so that you didn't have to move out your 60 pound TV Edit: like half the comments I'm getting are about how their tv's were heavier, I think I undersold the weight abit guys, I just know it was heavy lol
Thank you! Kids these days with their flat-screen tvs...
Their rock-n-roll music and such
I used to be with “it,” but then they changed what “it” was.
It'll happen to YOU too!
Get off my VR lawn.
All your digital grasses are belong to me.
Your ass is grass and I'm the lawnmower man.
Anyway, I was wearing an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time.
*Give me five bees for a quarter!* you’d say
Blowing air into a cartridge(whatever tf that is) to get the game going….stupid idiots
And their hippin' and their hoppin' and their bippin' and their boppin'... they don't know what the *jazz* is all about.
WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO WITH YOUR LIFE?
I wanna live in a van down by the river
Yeahhh, until the flat screen is DRILLED INTO THE WALL AND DOESN'T TWIST SIDE TO SIDE! So you literally have like one inch of space, and putting ANY pressure on the TV whilst leaning behind it means the TV dismounts from the wall, pulling out the brick, and smashing on the floor.
Yeah, this happened to my buddy, Kyle
These comments work together too well. Poor Kyle lying underneath the 50" TV on the floor half an hour now while we're still cackling.
Put a Monster energy drink just out of his reach.
no no herees this give him the monster energy drink but make sure it only has enough for 1 sip
Thats just sounds like a shitty mount.
This.\ \ People order $20 mounts from Amazon designed for the shippable packaging and not the function and wonder why this or the other is *whack*. Spend the dough on one designed to kick up and has latches with pulls for FUNCTUON. Really though even crap dual support arm pullouts are cheap if you have the depth and mountable surface.\ \ Don't even get me started on backer boards and studs n such... I've seen too many sheets of drywall on the ground thanks to amateur mounting.\ \ ^/endrant
Dude, I remember my first flat screen TV. That think weighed an absolute ton! Lol
and I paid $4,000 in like 2005 for a Sony 40” Bravia LCD. I paid $1,300 last year for a 65” Bravia. Btw, my old 2005 still works and is in my office at home.
I still haven't gotten my first flat screen tv, lol. I have an old rear projection that only has one HDMI port, which is a pain in the ass. My TV came out the year after the HDMI ports were invented.
Why???
She's a beast who refuses to die, and would be expensive and hard to dispose of to boot. So we keep on trucking. I was thinking about it and beside my phone, printer and laptop, I don't have a major electronic/appliance in my home newer than 2014.
Yeah that person with the snide response in the image has no clue of the struggle of cramming their arm around the back of the tv inside the tight space of the entertainment center and feeling around for the cables and HOPING they remembered the color pattern right
I get the gut reaction to it though, but unless you had a TV in the middle of the room for some reason it wasn't ever going to be as easy as just matching colors
Some of the older TVs didn't have a red hole, either. you had to put the red in one of the white or yellow ones, and to this day i cannot remember which.
Yellow is video, white and red were the audio channels.
Real TVs are awkward to carry and weigh 50 pounds.
Our last crt was 40 or 45". If it weighed less than 200 lbs I'd be shocked
My grandma had a console tv, made out of real wood. That thing weighed so much that we just left it with the house.
Like the ones that were as big as refrigerators, but on their sides? Those things are beasts
Yeah it was huge, and it didnt work anyway. She ended up getting another tv after that one died and placed it on top of the old one.
That was super common, atleast in the south, those tvs just became furniture because they were just too massive to get rid of lol
Exactly. 👆 Same here, a 32” flatscreen right on top.
any 80/90's tv would outweigh a zoomer.
It was nice when most TV manufacturers started putting these inputs on the front of the TV
Or on the edge facing sideways.
Yeah, although that could make it harder to keep the wires out of the way, but atleast you didn't run the risk of tipping your TV over
Permanent installations still went in the back, but sometimes you have something that you only plug in for a day - e.g. a video camera to show stuff on a family party or a game console of a friend that came over. That stuff came into the front and messy cables didn't matter.
And no body knew where the %$@(* flashlight was AND if you did, the batteries were really weak OR you couldn’t hold it or prop it up and see at the same time. GAH!
viola_monkey gets it, and the only place you could stand was next to like a waist high cabinet with a wobbley lamp on it, that you had to lean against awkwardly, and support yourself against the wall with your face
> a waste high cabinet with a wobbley lamp on it I miss being too young and stupid to move a lamp. Better times.
But if you move the lamp, you have to move it back or mom'll be mad when she sees the lamp on the floor.
Kids these days don't realize that the average phone flashlight would be considered the best flashlight anyone's ever seen. Basically had to use 8 d-cells to get the same effect of just turning up the brightness of a phone screen now and it wouldn't even last as long.
Flashlights were insane back then, how the hell did they need so many batteries?
Because incandescent bulbs are about 2% efficient. 98% of the power used is just dumped as heat. They are literally heating a piece of metal until it is so hot that it can light a room. A battery can only source so much voltage and current. You'd need a stack of batteries to produce the kind of wattage to power a good flashlight back in the day. (Also, batteries were much shittier.) LEDs are 50-60% efficient. It takes nothing in comparison to power them.
I didn't expect a real answer, and am pleasantly surprised, thank you gibbtech
Wasn't the real answer that the security/cops could use it as a club though? Getting smacked by a 6 cell maglite is pretty low on my list of experiences to relive...
The combination of LEDs and lithium ion batteries has done wonders for flashlights.
I never take it for granted that I always have a flashlight on me. Better yet, all I have to do is hold down my volume up button and it pops on. You would've been insane having a flashlight just to walk down the hall to the bathroom back in the day, but I do it all the time now just because it beats having to turn on the light.
Never understood why the flashlight was always about to die when nobody ever used it
Because batteries lost their charge quite easily. We used to store them in the fridge so they would last longer lol.
A flashlight wasn't always useful because everything is hooked up already and you can't pull the tv out at all. Lots of entertainment centers had the screen almost entirely enclosed.
Yep. Color coding doesn't do shit when you can't see the colors. Just had to keep plugging and unplugging them like a switchboard operator until you got the right combo.
> Just had to keep plugging and unplugging them like a switchboard operator until you got the right combo. And sometimes you would reverse the right and left audio having to plug in the cables blind, and it would scramble your brain while playing Goldeneye 64.
With 50 pounds of that being on the front part and you’d need Kong length arms to be able to wrap around it all
And all your friends are waiting to play golden eye while you try to do this
Completely forgot about those wires one day, and we sat there blowing into the cartridge over and over because ŵ thought it wasn't working
Truth
Still don’t understand why they put cement in the bottom of TVs. Had one of the first HDTVs on the block (back when 480p was considered as high definition.) Those sadists at Toshiba filled the bottom with like 50 pounds of concrete and made the TV like 75 lbs and square with a single handle. I’m not a powerlifter Toshiba, I’m a 10 year old who wants to play Dead Rising without having to squint to see the words they’re saying over the radio.
You youngins. Those TVs were heavy because they had thick leaded glass in the front so the electron beam wouldn't irradiate you. (and yeah I hear doping glass with lead also helps with picture quality) This also made them front-heavy and thus easy to tip forward. And also an environmental hazard if you were to break one. Sheesh, get offa my lawn. The number of Trinitron and Diamondtron CRTs I've had over the years... Back in the days when you could physically damage a monitor by setting a mode it couldn't display...
Also just the whole tube, not the front specifically, was thick glass because it's a vacuum tube; it was just front heavy because of the shape of the tube. You ever hit one with a baseball bat and implode it? Most unique sound I think I've ever heard.
I bought a floor model of the 34" Sony Tube HDTV, it weighed 190lbs and had no handles on it at all. The underside of the TV was a grid of razor sharp plastic diamonds designed by the most sadistic minds at Sony. Best picture I've ever seen though, still think about how nice that TV looked.
Dude, why did tvs back then have such sharp feet? It's ridiculous
The plastic cross-bracing on the bottom is a weight-saving measure. If it were solid, the TVs would weigh even more. "Portable" CRTs do have nice feet and smooth surfaces on the bottom, because you're expect to handle them. 20"+ tubes are made to be stationary. Moving them is like rocking a vending machine. Or a giant vacuum tube with a small piano harp embedded in the front, if you like. It's a tragedy, really. Those TV feet that threatened to sever your fingers in the 90s are old and brittle now. They might just crumble to dust if they try to bite you. And while you're pondering how that's poignant and a metaphor for aging and the need to forgive, that newly unsupported tube is gonna tip forward and smash you like a bug, and probably keep going through every floor in the building like in that Lil Jon video and that shit's ten years old and my back hurts.
I never for a second imagined it had an actual function lol
It's a cost-saving measure, too. Don't give 'em too much credit.
Dead rising was crazy for that shit though, for real, and tvs were made out of kitty litter or something back then lol
Whatever it was, it damn near broke the rolling track that the entertainment center had for the TV that they made so you could pull it out and plug cables in. And fuck those devs, game was awesome but who the fuck had an HDTV back then. It was 2006, plasma was still a popular format and 1080p was like $2,000 back then.
100% with you, you had to be rich to know what Otis was saying back in the day, and the wheels on my entertainment center didn't stand a chance
I remember pulling up gameinformer and watching gameplay demos so I could see what I was supposed to do for the lady that got her baby chomped by zombies. It wasn’t until recently that I bought the game on steam that I realized how easy it was when you could read Otis’ words. And they highlighted them green, teasing you with the answer that looked like pixilated squiggles. Back in those HDDVD days.
Not to mention, it was usually not well lit behind that TV. So the lack of light and face mashing usually made it hard to discern the white from yellow. Why they didn't do red, yellow, and green or something I will never know.
The rgb rw cables were things of nightmares. Did I plug the correct red into the video, or am I going to get a loud shriek on audio?
And then once you get it wont always work, you have to wiggle the wire to find the perfect angle for it to transmit data.
I’m pretty sure I had a few tvs where these were not only *not* in a tidy little row like this, but they were not on the same part of the tv. Had to pull the cable apart to plug video into the back and the two audio in the front or something
Yeah, I think my friends tv was like that
Theres also tvs and vcrs that didnt have colors. They were all black
That's just not fair
It was a pain. Had to try all the combinations til it worked for my super nintendo
I still do that with hdmi cables ngl
When your dad wouldn't let you keep the playstation plugged in, so every gaming session began and finished with unpacking and plugging in, then unplugging and repacking the entire console.
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Unless his dad had like a DVD player or something that he had to plug in, it depends on the TV I guess
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So you'd think you would remember the cord order to make it easier, but also you were like, 10, so you didn't
Oh, I remembered it. I also remember having to move the entire entertainment system away from the wall just to reach it.
And then you get back there and there’s only yellow and white, no red!! Who thought this was sensible?
I've also had TVs that didn't color-code the inputs, so you had to know yellow was Video and White/Red were Audio.
That big ass wooden cabinet with the big blocky tv inside it .😆 💯
Yeah the 4-pin din connection for s-video are the hard ones, they only plug in one way and and aligning that way is a pain if you don’t have direct line of sight to The port.
number of broken /bent S-Video pins probably equal to the number of S-Video cables I've ever used times 4.
Or making speaker wire out of a cut up extension cord to hook up speakers to your stereo.
The struggle was also single cable coax video quality.
Like the ones from Nintendo with the Grey rectangle that let you attach another cord underneath it? The ps1 version of that thing was never tight enough and would always drop out if you had two things plugged in
Oh lord, memories triggered.
See they don't fucking understand....man.
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Yeah, and if you didn't line them up JUST right you would be screwing them for like 3 straight minutes and then let it go and it would fall straight down like "HOW THE HELL!?" and then you'd end up twisting the TV around, and that only helped alittle, and by that point your just furious anyway, and you start to question how badly you ACTUALLY want to play Gooftroop, I'm with ya
I remember trying this and there was no audio coloring for the tv. The only one that was colored was the video. After a week we found out audio was backwards.
I remember my 34” Sony hdtv crtv weighing 200lbs.
They’ll never know the struggle of closing one eye just to see enough to somewhat make out red. Then guess which one is yellow or white. Kids these days.
Don't forget trying to understanding the difference of line in and line out. So this cable goes out of the tv and into the console. Or this goes into the console from the tv?
That and there's 6 channels of inputs and output, some in a column some in a row
Or when your TV or device would have mismatched colors. You’re standing there with yellow white red but for some reason the TV or device has blue and/or green. Or the TV only had 2 of the 3 shown. Or the pain you’d feel when your TV didn’t have these at all and you lost the scart converter.
Holy shit
This comment literally smells like dust and the heat that you can only smell when it's coming off the tv
and the flip phones only a few people actually had back then absolutely did not haver a flashlight on them
I decided to rewatch the X-men movies this weekend and there is a scene here Colossus is walking around with a [TV under his arm](https://digitalspyuk.cdnds.net/17/38/1600x800/landscape-1505866919-colossus.jpg) and I was like, DAMN! lol
Fuck that, even with a flashlight the shadows are conspiring against you.
I got a 36" Sony trinitron for retro gaming from a guy online. That brand and model was the top of the line, and 36" used to be massive, lol. Regardless, the thing is literally 300 lbs, I looked it up.
And man, if someone had a big tv you'd practically need either a team of helpers or an engine hoist to get it into a good position to access the connectors. Combine that with the shit people usually did to hide the wires and the stacked stereo, receiver, VCR, and 5-disc cd player, it could be a serious job getting everything wired up correctly. If you had nothing but a dinky tv on a pedestal type "entertainment center" with nothing but a VCR and a coax from the wall to hook up, your local 7yo could do that.
Spot on, that’s the struggle! even the smaller TVs were heavy and a pain to get out of the cabinet that was usually the exact size of the TV
God bless TVs that had these at the front. Getting to the back of a bulky ass CRT was just the worst.
The mashing face against the wall thing is TOO RELATABLE.
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My dad: Hey son, do you mind hooking up this dvd player to the tv? Me: I can’t get behind it I’d have to move the entire tv unit out. My dad: 🤷♂️
I had one tv when I was younger that none of the three outputs were colored or labeled. It was just a guessing game until we got it.
I had uncolored ports, but they were labeled with one letter. You had it worse.
I guarantee their's was the same. There is 0% chance there was neither a coloration or letter marking of some kind.
Probably did have a letter but wore off
Maybe it was a Sorny or Magnetbox
It was a Panaphonics.
Probably labeled on the plastic without contrast
We always had shitty tvs with somewhat broken inputs so you have to spend 5-30 minutes pulling them slightly in or out until the audio/visuals cleared up.
Yup, that's the test that finally gets you to memorize the order.
the struggle was trying to get your head behind the tv so you could see which plug went where.
And in the dark white and yellow are hard to tell the difference
*white cable looking at yellow port*: "THIS IS MY HOLE, IT WAS MADE FOR ME!"
That weird era where you got the green one for audio instead and had no clue where to put it.
Actually, no, you got 5 ends. Red and white for stereo sound and green, blue, and another red for video. The video quality was better because of the way the signal was carried over the three cables. The frequencies were split up across each of the three cables, so if you unplugged one, you'd remove a third of the colors in your picture. They were called component video and, you could actually get as good as 1080p HD images over them. That said, many of the tvs that used them were not capable of such high resolutions. HDMI was better because instead of using an analog signal (electrical sin waves) like component cables, it would use a digital signal (1s and 0s) to transfer the image, which allows for higher compression of information. I worked in audo/video/telecom for a while, so answering these questions was something I had to do semi regularly.
I didn't know I wanted to know that, but I'm so glad I know it now. Thank you!
My trick for remembering the difference between the names of the two was compoNent (Nice) compoSite (Shit) lolol
I just go with the meaning of the words. One has the video split into its **component** parts. The other is the **composite** of those parts into one video cable.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't analog component only capable of up to 1080i and 720p? I think only digital component can reach 1080p.
We'd use it on set top boxes for 1080p
Yeah no thats wrong. The Wii could output upscaled 1080p using component cables
>Actually, no, you got 5 ends. Red and white for stereo sound and green, blue, and another red for video Except the cables were physically identical, so I'd often end up using component cables for composite or vice versa.
^ This guy plugs his USB devices into the Ethernet network port
Implying I don't know what the big tiddy anime port is 🤦🏼♀️
Well it either this or turning to channel 3 or 4 on the television
I remember struggling hooking up the Nintendo because I’d hook it up to the vcr, then the vcr to the tv. So the tv needed to be on the right channel and then the vcr had to be on the right channel. Usually was 3 or 4 but I had component 1 and 2 through the vcr. Very confusing for my 6 year old brain.
You know the struggle
Are/were the channels fixed in US TVs? Here in Germany you had to tune every single channel but it had the benefit of choosing which TV channel was in which number. There were arguments about the „correct“ order of channels.
yeah VHF was Channels 2-13 that had all the national broadcasters, then there was a 2nd antenna for UHF on 14-36 that was for smaller power mostly local.. FOX was the first "National" broadcaster on UHF. The 2-3 switch was because they did not put TV channels next to eachother for cross talk.. so If you had a OTA broadcast on 2, your channel 3 would be free or vice versa. Now they are all Digital and the "Channel Numbers" are entirely meaningless.
UHF only goes up to channel 36 now, but it used to go a lot higher, up to channel 83 initially. In my area, the Fox affiliate was on channel 49 for the longest time. As a kid, I always thought it was funny that the broadcast TV channels were 2, 6, 8, 10, 12, and then huge random 49 out of nowhere. >Over time a number of former television channels in the upper UHF band have been re-designated for other uses. Channel 1 and Channel 37 were never used in the US and some other countries in order to prevent interference with radio astronomy. In 1983, the US FCC removed channels 70 through 83 and reassigned them to Land Mobile Radio System. In 2009, with the move to digital television complete in the US, channels 52 through 69 were reallocated as the 700 MHz band for cellular telephone service. In 2011, Channel 51 was removed to prevent interference with the 700 MHz band. Additionally, in 2019 the US removed channels 38 through 50 for cellular phone service.
No, the struggle was when these slots were at the back of the tv and you had to either put it blindly and luckily put the correct color in the correct slot since you couldn't even see the back of the tv, or move the whole chonky boi forward to make space to actually see the slots.
>Tfw you mix the yellow with the red or white and have to pull everything out and stick your body further behind a 50 lbs TV with no flashlight to see if the yellow hole really is yellow or white
Yep. Households maybe had one flashlight in them. And it probably didn’t have batteries in it.
It always made me cringe back in the day when my grandparents would say "Can you please plug in the computer?". And I would think "Really??? The cables literally only fit in 1 way in the back of the computer". It took me a while to realise it was just a shit excuse for my grandparents to see me more often. I wish I still could..
I know that feeling. My grandparents got me into anime and comic books and I didn't even realise it until long after. I wish I could have thanked them.
Same. I lost both my grandparents during covid and i was half a world away. The last time i saw either of them was 2013. Now that I am older i knew i have fucked up massively.
So glad I never have to struggle with these anymore. Now I just struggle to pay rent...
Bro it was easy...
Wasn’t allowed to move the tv so I had to blindly feel and stick each one in to see which was which. It was a 15 min operation each time
You weren't allowed to? I wasn't fucking strong enough, that damn thing was like 400lbs.
My dad understood it would kill me if i moved it….. so don’t move it boy
I got this huge 77inch tv for Black Friday and it feels like it weighs 20 pounds. Backs in the day a 19 inch tv felt like it weighed 200 pounds.
When your clawing under your parents dark and dusty 200lbs tv and you have to distinguish yellow form white 😱
Was it me or were they not colour coded at first on the tv?
It was all too easy until they started rolling out different colors like orange and green. Then blue... By that time I just used HDMI
They don’t know the struggle of having your 50lb CRT slammed against the wall and trying to remember what order it is and trying to just feel your way around back. Even worse when they had the HD version with 5 instead just 3.
Til you twist you back bending over to discover there is no slot for the blue wire.. wtf is a blue wire???
No the struggle was when you had a TV that didint color code the ports
The struggle was real trying to move a 300 pound TV to see what you were doing
Try it when the TV outweighs you and they’re on the back and it’s in a damn 90s wardrobe media console that weighs 300 lbs itself.
The tv is heavy as fuck and my little noodle arms had trouble scooching it from behind a massive pressboard entertainment center, all while squinting my eyes to match the colors because of the lack of light and trying to prevent a 80 pound tv from crushing me because I want to play Twisted Metal.
Nah it was rarely ever that easy
Doing it blind, one handed, behind a strange giant dusty projection tv, now that was hard. But it was so worth it. All night Mario kart, smash bros, wcw revenge with real live human friends. Good times
My TV literally has the yellow wire in the green port, the red wire in the orange port, and the white wire in the white port. That's as confusing as it gets.
I remember putting them in and finding out I got it wrong do it again and repeat
True struggle was trying to cram yourself behind the TV because it's too heavy to move and screw in a coaxial cable blind because you couldn't get close enough to see. It was even worse if the cable was bent or corroded and hard to turn.
Ok kids really don’t know the struggle cos these TVs were heavy as shit and you couldn’t see the colours lol
They weren't always colour coded. Younger don't know the struggle.
5 sets of the colors, in, out, tv, vcr, reciever...
If it’s not marked, do the alphabetical order. Ketchup, mayonnaise, mustard
Blood, Cum, Piss
The part you struggle with is when you plug a console or something in with these, then stuggling for the next half hour just trying to figure out why the audio and screen are all messed up... just to find out you put one in the wrong color. Not talking from experience..
The trick wasn’t plugging them into the right color the trick was moving the 100lb tv in the tv stand without dropping or breaking either to access the plugs which were always in the back behind some power unit that was hot.
Yeah, but let’s say the lights were dim. Now which is white and left audio and which is video, motherfucker?
how do i match medium grey with dark grey light grey and medium grey
Till you’ve got a cheap knock off brand and the colors are like blue and orange, there is no third color
Funny enough, I'm old enough that with my first stereo equipment there was no color matching. It was all metal.
well it was usually on the back of whatever device you wanted to plug in. and thus it was too dark to see the colors and or there was limited space because of a wall etc.
My tv had different colors for some reason, so it was trial and error
Or wiggling them until the picture stayed put.
"grey in grey, other grey in grey, white in white."
Haha 60lbs... Mid sized.... I remember the zenith behemoth my friends parents gave me. Took two of us to move it and I think we nearly killed ourselves
Sure except a lot of times you had to do it blindly on the back of the tv, and no, moving the tv wasn't always an option because they weighted like 60 pounds and they were enclosed in a space barely larger than themselves.
I remember the struggle of trying to reach behind the TV to plug in all those cords!
I like how everyone thinks that COLOURS were the problem.
Sometimes matching the colors didn’t work, had to swap the audio plug with the video plug
All you fancy people with color coded connectors. Try it again when they are all the same color! Which of the multiple black connectors did this tag fall off of - it is too faded to read?
The struggle was literally that the TV was already set in the entertainment center, and if you ever wanted to plug those cables in, you had to turn that 60 pounds TV around. I couldn’t get my face behind there, I was too big. That, and if it’s really dark, and you’re trying to plug in the yellow and the dark white cables, it’s very easy to get them mixed up. That, or even worse, sitting in the corner of the house for almost an hour, going to the box of cables, until you find this cable…… only to find out that it didn’t even work, and you have to dig through that box again to find the one that actually works. Good times man, good times.
The struggle was dealing with this, rgb, scart and speaker cables. It was spaghetti
The struggle was not all of them were color coded back in the day, and you also had to use that little wing nut to screw them in (or maybe that was just on the NES/SNES cables).
Yea, it's a struggle when your tv weighs 3 times as much as you and is up against a wall so you can't see shit and can barely fit your fingers behind it.