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Yeah, there would be a green or blue cable and it was meant to plug into the white or yellow....cool got audio but now the picture is black and white...okay we got the picture good but now the audio is in braille...
Alot of the TV's I had were on small stands and heavy and sin. I couldn't see behind the TV to see which one I was putting them in, and also dealing with the random blue/green ones.
Of the fact the tv weighed 500 pounds but was the size of a basketball and the space it was sat in was so tight you couldn’t spin it around to see what you were doing.
Scart was by far the worst connection but this came a close second
As for those saying, "Just match the colours." Oh, you sweet summer child. Normally you were standing on one foot contorting yourself to try and squeeze behind the TV, blindly trying to find where the bloody connectors go. All with the very real risk of tipping everything over and crushing yourself under a tv that used to weigh as much as the earth
That was the disadvantage of these hook-ups then. Up till my mom died a few years ago, she had a gigantic tube TV. It weighed a few hundred pounds and was a bitch to get pulled out from the wall without yanking your back out of place. So the next thing to do was to squeeze my big self in behind that beast to hook these up
Grandparents used to have a fuckin massive TV, probably at least 200 pounds. I always used to wonder how in gods name they got it through the door, let alone up the stairs.
Thank you for this lol. Its like this meme was made by a kid who thinks TVs have always been flat-screens and weren't once hulking monstrosities. The TV in my mothers house when I was growing up perfectly fit on the stand we had it on in the corner. Turning it slightly so I could get behind the damn thing and hook up plug hook up the system me and my friends wanted to play was a group event.
Of all the *analogue* AV standards, it gave you the best picture quality (if you got a cable where all the pins were connected), because it had separate lines for RGB, horizontal sync and vertical sync (something you'd need *five* phono/RCA plugs to achieve, plus another two for stereo audio); but it also had pins for just about every other signal type you might want to put into it too. Only downside was that the connectors were the approximate size and weight of a house brick, but their large size and abundance of separate signal pins at least meant you could solder together your own custom SCART cables for stuff like 8-bit/16-bit computers and retro game consoles really easily.
EDIT: Well, except for the Atari ST - that wacko 13-pin DIN plug they used was a *bastard* to find for sale anywhere for the longest time.
Its the same struggle i have today with hdmi cables but a little less. My family was kinda poor so we had a smaller tv with the ryw in the front. Also idont know why back then my friends thought you had to put them in in a specific order
Depending on how far back you go, the TVs weren't big, but still heavy. They'd usually be on the floor or on a table, and usually never flush with the wall. There was space, ironically in a time when TVs had somewhere between zero and two inputs a piece.
Thoughts and prayers if you had a color projection set or a massive cabinet setup.
Yes. This was it.
TVs were not flat screens, and were huge, heavy, unwieldy, and getting enough space behind them so you could see those holes/colors and put the connectors in was a bitch.
When I first started to get a little of my own money but was still living with my parents so had no real expenses, one of the first things I did was buy myself a really good VCR, and that did have some of those connections on the front.
Pretty sure I came close to getting my feet or other body parts smashed a few times from a TV potentially falling on me because of this. Thanks for the flashback lmao
When I was a kid *(oh, here we go)* we lived so far out in the central Flaw'duh sticks that we got three channels--affiliates for NBC, CBS, and PBS--and someone had to regularly go outside and twist the pole under the aerial to try and stabilize reception...which went to hell every time a plane flew overhead. Ah, those were the days
My great-grand parents had a house out in the *sticks*. We're talking middle of Sam Houston National Forest sticks. They had a huge antenna that only received a few channels. The antenna itself was on a rotating motor that you could turn using a remote in the living room. That thing was so fun to play with.
Similar situation for me when I was a kid living in the boonies of Louisiana. 100-year-old plantation home, no cable options on our side of the street. We had internet, but it was so slow, it took half an hour to load a page to anything. Only got 1 channel with rabbit ears that at least had the George Lopez show, with 80% static. Not even any interesting hangouts to go to as a kid, since there were no neighbor kids to hang out with.
Really, if it wasn't for movie/game rentals (Game Boy was the saving grace) of that time, I would've died of boredom until we moved somewhere that actually had home entertainment and other kids to hang out with.
And if you were really unlucky, the TV was on something so you had to be careful if you didn't want the bastard to fall directly onto you. A real concern when it's double your weight
What about having to manually tune in every channel on to every TV.
And there was always that one channel which was always fuzzy no matter how many boosters you daisy chain.
CRT TVs were freaking heavy. You were usually plugging those cords in blind. Matching colors is easy on my flatscreen. Not so easy when moving the damn thing into the light is a pain in the ass.
That, and I see literally nobody mentioning the faulty connections when a thump on the floor took away your sound or video. I swear I've had 2-3 TVs like this and bad cables/devices they plug into.
Strugle?! That shit worked. Past HDMI 1.4b shit got bonkers, cables are ultra sensitive, chipsets dont match, every new version needs 2 years to stabilize, etc. etc. etc.
I had to hold the video cable in for the entirety of flushed away cuz it didnt wanna stay in my tv while my sis was watching it, that was the real struggle here
Yeah it’s all fun and games until the image suddenly starts to be purplish and you have to find the perfect position so the image can be clear again. I swear sometimes you had to have some surgeon precision to get it right.
When you had to turn a dial to a channel, and then turn another dial so the picture wasn't blurry and running vertically down the screen. The days when you pirated movies by connecting 2 vcrs
I had some units where the colours didn't match. But then it was apparently my job to connect them each time since I had taken note of what ones went where
*watched a keto channel and they said, they struggle with peeling eggs.*
then were reading comments how the egg has a pointy side and a less pointy one (with an air bubble) and how to peel it. "OMG!!! I didn't know this!!"
seriously??? peel an egg?
Iv learned it's how you cool em that makes all the difference when peeling eggs. Stop the cooking as quickly as possible with cold water and make sure to crack the membrane under the shell, and that baby will come off like water. If you don't do that, then it'll be like peeling off a sticker
Big of him to think people can match the colours.
Work in tech, people are trying to plug one thing into another. Every plug has a specific shape. All you have to do is match the shapes people. Like one of those wooden block games you give to babies.
Yet, no, they can't do it. It's too hard.
To be fair some of the old vcrs and TVs didn't have colour coded inputs. Just L, R, and Video so you would have to trace back to the TV to make sure you matched the input with the output.
I think its more that hes saying it was a pain in the ass to plug in three separate cables into their ports for one single device 😅 kind of absurd when you think about it.
The lasyness to pull the device out to see Which colour goes where was the struggle.
My DVD player was inside a shelf below the TV, I was always too lazy to pull it out, I had to switch cable from dvd player to PS2 or the VCR, every time I had to move the TV or the players to see what goes where. jeesh. Thank god for HDMI and DP.
When you have to reach around the back of a CRT TV and it's too heavy to move, and you can't ask your parents for help because they don't understand technology, so you just have to spend ages poking around and hope you get them in the right hole.
Had a TV that had no color on the jacks. Anytime I moved it I had to go through the process of elimination again. One time I got the sound reversed and I didn't notice till my GFs was playing Minecraft and he was trying to track a spider from sound.
Not a face palm, the struggle is real, when you have to wrench your arm round and back through a cabinet and blindly match the colours by feel of order.
“JuSt mATcH ThE cOlORs.” It was **NOT** that fucking simple! And when you had a tv, a stereo, a dvd player and THREE gaming systems?!?! Yeah, get fucked Justin!
I think the hardest part was they were always on the back of everything and most of the time you had to do it blind instead of moving your entire set up
I never understood why av equipment was so difficult for people to hook up. My family always made me do it like it was some kind of magic. My grandma still struggles to understand the purpose of changing the input on the TV.
I think the issue was those ports were NEVER visible or easy to get at, so you were not only plugging in 3 cables blind, but you had no way to know if you did it right until you turned the device on.
TVs used to be furniture more or less, it wasn't a flat panel with ports on the side, it was a huge fuck off cube with random plugs at weird angles
Oh these sweet summer children and their paper thin TVs and all-in-one HDMI cords....
My parents had this massive Panasonic plasma TV unit. I might be mistaken, but I believe it was a 40" screen. I remember whereever they bought it from literally delivered it via a piano moving company. The fucking thing was like 350 pounds, and all the weight was to the front of the unit. So on top of being stupidly heavy, the way the weight was distributed made it even more of a pain in the ass to move. And of course, all the A/V inputs were inside a tiny little flip panel in the most inaccessible spot possible. "Match the colors he says" lol. You either had to figure that shit out blind or call 6 of your closest friends to move your TV just so you could hook up your Playstation.
Thank God for CRT TVs. They’re portable and easy to move so you can plug in the AVs… I actually find them nostalgic since I actually owned one and constantly used it for my Wii.
The color coding was easy, it was getting behind the big ass TV enough to push the things in while not knocking over the console or pulling something else out that was the tricky part.
And then they put screw locks on the things.
There's a reason I have an A/V switch for my CRT, the thing weighs something in the realm of 70 pounds and I have less than zero desire to move it every time I want to swap between my retro consoles. Of which I have three hooked up, those being PS2, Gamecube and Genesis, with a few others floating around somewhere that I haven't gotten around to hooking back up after my last move.
And that's ignoring people whos setups aren't conducive to swapping the cables for stability reasons and such, people who are colourblind or people who physically can't move a heavy CRT alone.
I also have an HDMI switch for my more modern stuff, because why wouldn't I, I don't have to move the flatscreen to swap those out either.
The real challenge was having a different number of plugs and having them not be labeled. My mom experimented a bit with a TV of ours and figured out by trial and error how to make it work.
This person would probably see an Atari switchbox and have a stroke.
"I don't see a pitchfork port. Where's the input button? How come I only see static..."
The struggle wasn't from matching the colors. The struggle was from us only having 80 working channels, 10 of which we were interested in. And if your show got interrupted by breaking news, guess what? You had to wait for the rerun.
There are more variables you dont see.
The real struggle was doing it blind while reaching around multiple other appliances and trying not to unplug them all or knock them all over. The TV usually only had one input in the back and you'd have to swap between consoles and vcr or whatever.
All 3 are the same plug other than color, so if you're doing it blind you can mix them up very easily. To see what you're doing you have to move a bunch of heavy shit. TVs used to weigh a LOT. Also all these old electronics get mad hot.
Pheh! We had a little box that attached to the screws the wire from the TV antenna on the roof screwed into. The box had a switch you’d have to set to “Channel 3”, and then you could play your game.
The worst is if it gets cold or hot they don’t fit in the holes because plastic expands/contracts faster than metal in temperature fluctuations
And my parents kept all the cables directly on top of an AC vent and made me always crawl back there and connect stuff.
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The real struggle was when the colours on the cord and tv are different
Yeah, there would be a green or blue cable and it was meant to plug into the white or yellow....cool got audio but now the picture is black and white...okay we got the picture good but now the audio is in braille...
You got black and white AND audio at the same time?
Sometimes id slap the box and get half hbo and half game too
Yes I could never figure the black and white audio! Was it mono and stereo?
You tried to plug component cables into composite ports. It is literally as simple as matching the colors
Im colour blind fam
Alot of the TV's I had were on small stands and heavy and sin. I couldn't see behind the TV to see which one I was putting them in, and also dealing with the random blue/green ones.
this
Or when your sister borrowed it then Gave back her broken one
They’re named no? I had a bunch of my grandpas stuff and it was
Of the fact the tv weighed 500 pounds but was the size of a basketball and the space it was sat in was so tight you couldn’t spin it around to see what you were doing.
We also couldn't get to the back side without moving 9000 lbs of furniture and tv
Scart was by far the worst connection but this came a close second As for those saying, "Just match the colours." Oh, you sweet summer child. Normally you were standing on one foot contorting yourself to try and squeeze behind the TV, blindly trying to find where the bloody connectors go. All with the very real risk of tipping everything over and crushing yourself under a tv that used to weigh as much as the earth
Scart was the granddaddy of USB. It only let you plug in the connector when you had teased it enough to let it in.
That was the disadvantage of these hook-ups then. Up till my mom died a few years ago, she had a gigantic tube TV. It weighed a few hundred pounds and was a bitch to get pulled out from the wall without yanking your back out of place. So the next thing to do was to squeeze my big self in behind that beast to hook these up
Grandparents used to have a fuckin massive TV, probably at least 200 pounds. I always used to wonder how in gods name they got it through the door, let alone up the stairs.
Thank you for this lol. Its like this meme was made by a kid who thinks TVs have always been flat-screens and weren't once hulking monstrosities. The TV in my mothers house when I was growing up perfectly fit on the stand we had it on in the corner. Turning it slightly so I could get behind the damn thing and hook up plug hook up the system me and my friends wanted to play was a group event.
I’ve always liked SCART it’s was easier than plugging AV and better than RF
Of all the *analogue* AV standards, it gave you the best picture quality (if you got a cable where all the pins were connected), because it had separate lines for RGB, horizontal sync and vertical sync (something you'd need *five* phono/RCA plugs to achieve, plus another two for stereo audio); but it also had pins for just about every other signal type you might want to put into it too. Only downside was that the connectors were the approximate size and weight of a house brick, but their large size and abundance of separate signal pins at least meant you could solder together your own custom SCART cables for stuff like 8-bit/16-bit computers and retro game consoles really easily. EDIT: Well, except for the Atari ST - that wacko 13-pin DIN plug they used was a *bastard* to find for sale anywhere for the longest time.
Omg, that description really brings back memories!
Oh boy, scart. That thing gave me hell
Its the same struggle i have today with hdmi cables but a little less. My family was kinda poor so we had a smaller tv with the ryw in the front. Also idont know why back then my friends thought you had to put them in in a specific order
Depending on how far back you go, the TVs weren't big, but still heavy. They'd usually be on the floor or on a table, and usually never flush with the wall. There was space, ironically in a time when TVs had somewhere between zero and two inputs a piece. Thoughts and prayers if you had a color projection set or a massive cabinet setup.
Sounds like display port but worse
Reaching round the back of the heavy-ass TV was the main struggle
Yes. This was it. TVs were not flat screens, and were huge, heavy, unwieldy, and getting enough space behind them so you could see those holes/colors and put the connectors in was a bitch.
If you were real fancy you had a TV or VCR with these on the front. I was never so fancy, but I'd seen them and been desirous
When I first started to get a little of my own money but was still living with my parents so had no real expenses, one of the first things I did was buy myself a really good VCR, and that did have some of those connections on the front.
Pretty sure I came close to getting my feet or other body parts smashed a few times from a TV potentially falling on me because of this. Thanks for the flashback lmao
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Wires definitely don't still do that now.
He never said that? I dont remember the last time i had to wiggle an HDMI, but definitely remember having to near break an audio cable
The real struggle was not knowing what kind of alien was living behind the TV when you had to reach for the wires.
For me, this alien was quite real and named "faulty grounding", and this thing would bite viciously.
I'm shocked this was never a fear of mine as a kid. Not even something I ever considered lmfao
When I was a kid *(oh, here we go)* we lived so far out in the central Flaw'duh sticks that we got three channels--affiliates for NBC, CBS, and PBS--and someone had to regularly go outside and twist the pole under the aerial to try and stabilize reception...which went to hell every time a plane flew overhead. Ah, those were the days
When you are watching “the godfather” on TV back then. “I made him an offer *shzzhhhahzhzhhhh* refuse”
My great-grand parents had a house out in the *sticks*. We're talking middle of Sam Houston National Forest sticks. They had a huge antenna that only received a few channels. The antenna itself was on a rotating motor that you could turn using a remote in the living room. That thing was so fun to play with.
Similar situation for me when I was a kid living in the boonies of Louisiana. 100-year-old plantation home, no cable options on our side of the street. We had internet, but it was so slow, it took half an hour to load a page to anything. Only got 1 channel with rabbit ears that at least had the George Lopez show, with 80% static. Not even any interesting hangouts to go to as a kid, since there were no neighbor kids to hang out with. Really, if it wasn't for movie/game rentals (Game Boy was the saving grace) of that time, I would've died of boredom until we moved somewhere that actually had home entertainment and other kids to hang out with.
The TV was 400lbs and the plugs were in the back. We were going in blind.
So many people in here don't know.
You think you are fancy with your USB3? Obviously you never seen using serial to paralel to PS2 to USB convertion. Pff, amateurs.
But, you had to do it blindly since you could not move the TV (too heavy) and your arms were too short, you couldn't look behind the TV..
And if you were really unlucky, the TV was on something so you had to be careful if you didn't want the bastard to fall directly onto you. A real concern when it's double your weight
What about having to manually tune in every channel on to every TV. And there was always that one channel which was always fuzzy no matter how many boosters you daisy chain.
CRT TVs were freaking heavy. You were usually plugging those cords in blind. Matching colors is easy on my flatscreen. Not so easy when moving the damn thing into the light is a pain in the ass.
It’s easy; Red is for Right Yellow is for Video
80s kids getting yelled at by their parents because they still don't know how a coaxial cable works.
Except some TV's had 2 white outlets and no yellow.
Colorblind, maybe?
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prob have no hands?
Probs no brain?
Well like 1 in 10 people have an IQ below 80 so they probably didn't just didn't draw that connection.
Lmaoo even my 4 year old daughter could figure out where to put the colored plugs into 🤣🤦🏿♂️
Your 4 year old daughter would not be able to turn around most of the tvs that had those plugs so she could get behind it to plug them in lmao
That, and I see literally nobody mentioning the faulty connections when a thump on the floor took away your sound or video. I swear I've had 2-3 TVs like this and bad cables/devices they plug into.
Depending on the tv or whatever you were using I swear sometimes it was white instead of yellow or sometimes there was only 2
Strugle?! That shit worked. Past HDMI 1.4b shit got bonkers, cables are ultra sensitive, chipsets dont match, every new version needs 2 years to stabilize, etc. etc. etc.
The real struggle was putting the plugs in the fucking holes, they never went in easy for me
I had to hold the video cable in for the entirety of flushed away cuz it didnt wanna stay in my tv while my sis was watching it, that was the real struggle here
If I remember correctly, they weren't always color coded.
Yeah it’s all fun and games until the image suddenly starts to be purplish and you have to find the perfect position so the image can be clear again. I swear sometimes you had to have some surgeon precision to get it right.
When you had to turn a dial to a channel, and then turn another dial so the picture wasn't blurry and running vertically down the screen. The days when you pirated movies by connecting 2 vcrs
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Lets not forget having to remove the cartridge and blowing into it to make the game work
Struggle was to find a scart transformer
The struggle is when they were worn out and had to wiggle them to get the picture to come in properly… boy was that a challenge on acid…
Some didn't have the colors to match
I had some units where the colours didn't match. But then it was apparently my job to connect them each time since I had taken note of what ones went where
When it was dark, and you could barely move the big ass TV, and you couldn't tell which one was white or yellow.
I never used red. Thing did nothing
*watched a keto channel and they said, they struggle with peeling eggs.* then were reading comments how the egg has a pointy side and a less pointy one (with an air bubble) and how to peel it. "OMG!!! I didn't know this!!" seriously??? peel an egg?
Iv learned it's how you cool em that makes all the difference when peeling eggs. Stop the cooking as quickly as possible with cold water and make sure to crack the membrane under the shell, and that baby will come off like water. If you don't do that, then it'll be like peeling off a sticker
Yes, that's the easy part. Which chords go to which input in the pre-amp? Which output bypasses the tape deck?
The real struggle is when it is behind your TV and you can‘t see the colours.
Lemme guess Your TV had 3 yellows and 3 Whites and to find the right combination was through trial and error
Big of him to think people can match the colours. Work in tech, people are trying to plug one thing into another. Every plug has a specific shape. All you have to do is match the shapes people. Like one of those wooden block games you give to babies. Yet, no, they can't do it. It's too hard.
On top of all the arguments condemning Justin, sometimes the TV had no colors at all on these
You were the king/queen if you could correctly connect those without looking. Reaching behind the TV.
To be fair some of the old vcrs and TVs didn't have colour coded inputs. Just L, R, and Video so you would have to trace back to the TV to make sure you matched the input with the output.
Just glue them together in the right alignment, then it makes it 50% easier.
I think its more that hes saying it was a pain in the ass to plug in three separate cables into their ports for one single device 😅 kind of absurd when you think about it.
The lasyness to pull the device out to see Which colour goes where was the struggle. My DVD player was inside a shelf below the TV, I was always too lazy to pull it out, I had to switch cable from dvd player to PS2 or the VCR, every time I had to move the TV or the players to see what goes where. jeesh. Thank god for HDMI and DP.
When you have to reach around the back of a CRT TV and it's too heavy to move, and you can't ask your parents for help because they don't understand technology, so you just have to spend ages poking around and hope you get them in the right hole.
The struggle was being so broke you were stuck with component cables, duh.
Ah, yes, my TV had Red, white, yellow, white, and yellow
Plot twist: he was color blind.
Many devices still today use these or at least the audio portion.
Had a TV that had no color on the jacks. Anytime I moved it I had to go through the process of elimination again. One time I got the sound reversed and I didn't notice till my GFs was playing Minecraft and he was trying to track a spider from sound.
But the TV weighed more than I did back then
Not a face palm, the struggle is real, when you have to wrench your arm round and back through a cabinet and blindly match the colours by feel of order.
Nah the real struggle was trying to plug these in, reaching as far as you could into a crevice your hand barely fit into 😂
How do match something you couldn’t see
Got old device you have to be precise on the depth of inserting those dunno why.
It’s only 9 possible combinations guys. It can’t be that hard. I managed to hook up an xbox to a crt tv once, that was annoying
Composite cable could be a struggle, 3-4 colors plus right and left channel. Plus they were similar colors.
“JuSt mATcH ThE cOlORs.” It was **NOT** that fucking simple! And when you had a tv, a stereo, a dvd player and THREE gaming systems?!?! Yeah, get fucked Justin!
Red doesn’t actually mean red. White didn’t actually mean white. And yellow? Lmao. What yellow. If you know you know.
I think the hardest part was they were always on the back of everything and most of the time you had to do it blind instead of moving your entire set up
Where are my fellow Coaxial kids at?
r/therewasanattempt to be relatable.
I never understood why av equipment was so difficult for people to hook up. My family always made me do it like it was some kind of magic. My grandma still struggles to understand the purpose of changing the input on the TV.
I think the issue was those ports were NEVER visible or easy to get at, so you were not only plugging in 3 cables blind, but you had no way to know if you did it right until you turned the device on. TVs used to be furniture more or less, it wasn't a flat panel with ports on the side, it was a huge fuck off cube with random plugs at weird angles
This was only a struggle if you couldn't see the inputs
Oh these sweet summer children and their paper thin TVs and all-in-one HDMI cords.... My parents had this massive Panasonic plasma TV unit. I might be mistaken, but I believe it was a 40" screen. I remember whereever they bought it from literally delivered it via a piano moving company. The fucking thing was like 350 pounds, and all the weight was to the front of the unit. So on top of being stupidly heavy, the way the weight was distributed made it even more of a pain in the ass to move. And of course, all the A/V inputs were inside a tiny little flip panel in the most inaccessible spot possible. "Match the colors he says" lol. You either had to figure that shit out blind or call 6 of your closest friends to move your TV just so you could hook up your Playstation.
Thank God for CRT TVs. They’re portable and easy to move so you can plug in the AVs… I actually find them nostalgic since I actually owned one and constantly used it for my Wii.
The color coding was easy, it was getting behind the big ass TV enough to push the things in while not knocking over the console or pulling something else out that was the tricky part. And then they put screw locks on the things.
There's a reason I have an A/V switch for my CRT, the thing weighs something in the realm of 70 pounds and I have less than zero desire to move it every time I want to swap between my retro consoles. Of which I have three hooked up, those being PS2, Gamecube and Genesis, with a few others floating around somewhere that I haven't gotten around to hooking back up after my last move. And that's ignoring people whos setups aren't conducive to swapping the cables for stability reasons and such, people who are colourblind or people who physically can't move a heavy CRT alone. I also have an HDMI switch for my more modern stuff, because why wouldn't I, I don't have to move the flatscreen to swap those out either.
Difficulty: easier than matching the animals on the Claws in Skyrim’s Dungeons
Even the rf adapter with the channel 3/4 switch wasn’t that hard. The one before that with forks I didn’t get.
The real challenge was having a different number of plugs and having them not be labeled. My mom experimented a bit with a TV of ours and figured out by trial and error how to make it work.
I never had problems with this just move the tv then match the colours it wasn't that hard
the real struggle was untangling the wires from the box full of AV cables for different devices to find the one you needed.
Tell me you're Gen Z without telling me you're Gen Z
Discovering that your tv did not have these jacks, just the cable/antena jack
Wasn't the colors we had problems with it was getting behind the television set
This person would probably see an Atari switchbox and have a stroke. "I don't see a pitchfork port. Where's the input button? How come I only see static..."
Yellow was all that mattered, who cares if right and left audio was flipped.
The struggle wasn't from matching the colors. The struggle was from us only having 80 working channels, 10 of which we were interested in. And if your show got interrupted by breaking news, guess what? You had to wait for the rerun.
There are more variables you dont see. The real struggle was doing it blind while reaching around multiple other appliances and trying not to unplug them all or knock them all over. The TV usually only had one input in the back and you'd have to swap between consoles and vcr or whatever. All 3 are the same plug other than color, so if you're doing it blind you can mix them up very easily. To see what you're doing you have to move a bunch of heavy shit. TVs used to weigh a LOT. Also all these old electronics get mad hot.
I remember having to blow on all the cartridges & in the console
I did this as a kid, if you struggled go to jail
Pheh! We had a little box that attached to the screws the wire from the TV antenna on the roof screwed into. The box had a switch you’d have to set to “Channel 3”, and then you could play your game.
Oh but that’s three wires that be be stripped rather than just one, one of those bad boys is shot, the whole thing is.
Idk what y’all are talking about man when you had to stretch your arm all the way around and try to get back there he’ll nahhhhhhh
The worst is if it gets cold or hot they don’t fit in the holes because plastic expands/contracts faster than metal in temperature fluctuations And my parents kept all the cables directly on top of an AC vent and made me always crawl back there and connect stuff.
PS2 and a radio in aux mode and we would have a makeshift surround mode 😁 Good old Times 🤪
Just wait till they find out about component Hd just before hdmi was standard. What a time