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I miss Radio Shack
I had one of these back in the day because my Thinkpad had S-Video out, but my TV did not, and my Thinkpad was the only device I owned at the time that could play DVDs.
My old Vaio laptop had HDMI out, but it also had one analog out, which was only S-video. My CRT at the time only had a composite input, so I needed a similar adapter.
“Mind the DVD player Richard!” “What DVD player?” “The one over there dear” “But thats inside a shop! How am I going to hit it inside a shop?” “Just mind it dear!” “Minding the dvd player…”
Man I miss RadioShack. Not just because I worked there in 2016-17 but because they always had these cool unexpected gadgets. One of the simplest yet coolest things I bought was a 2xAA battery to usb charger. A modern phone will drain the batteries in maybe 10 minutes and get them pretty warm but I never would have found that anywhere else in a store.
I had an s video adapter for my laptop. My laptop had s video out and I used the adapter to convert it to composite to my old tube tv.
All three of the 43-inch flat screens we have owned support composite input. Two also support component. One of the TVs I have that supports both was bought this year.
I guess a couple uses could be if you have a lot of video devices, and you connect them to your television using a S-Video switch or a Composite switch, and you had a device or two which didn’t support one or the other, so you use one of these to connect it to the switch
Or maybe like on older think pads like the T42, they have an S-Video output on the side, and you may not have means to use that?
Here we would often make use of these passive composite/s video to SCART adapter boxes, since a lot of cheaper televisions only had a SCART input or two (and the rf areal connection for analogue tv)
Or devices which only had SCART outputs on the back
Though usually that wasn’t an issue since every TV has SCART
A s video adapter would be useful on a laptop I once had that had a s video output where not all TV’s have s video
Some old laptops had s video outputs. I know in junior high, teachers had laptops with s video out. If they wanted to plug their laptop in to the crt tv, they used an adapter like this since the school tvs sometimes lacked s video.
It’s probably just a 470p capacitor from chroma line to luma! This should just work, in both directions, somewhat badly, in conjunction with the source resistor that you expect on luma in the source device. Or do they have a little choke on the luma line as well?
Hey, I have a question, is there a good way to digitalize Hi8 Video-Cassettes?
I don’t know why, but we still have a lot of Radio Shack stores where I live in Mexico.
I worked in the UK RadioShack (‘Tandy’) and we had plenty of cardboard boxes lying around in the storeroom with heaps of random opened and unopened adaptors that just languished for months on end. I seem to remember this one was often found there. I miss it though!.
Since this adapter goes both ways, I kinda wanna see someone get a bunch of this and see how many you can connect together before the signal becomes unwatchable.
S Video->Composite->S Video->Composite… Etc.
Maybe even start throwing some other conversions into there. Composite to Hdmi to VGA to Component..
Maybe I just have a strange sense of what would be entertaining. 😅
Even though with all these different video signals and conversions, british tv humour still looks as bad as ever on my 4K monitor.
I actually identify as Onslow, he’s my spirit animal.
God i love the quirks shown on this channel, don’t ever change.
I bet it would be very helpful for laptops with an S-video output like the Powerbook G4. In fact, I made an S-video to composite adapter for an experiment, just required a capacitor to join them together
They should open up amateur analogy tv broadcast, just like there’s amateur radio.
My 2014 flatscreen TV doesn’t have s-video in. Kinda sad really. N64 games would’ve looked a little better.
Gosh I feel old, I rember being a kid too short to reach these on the top of the rack at Radio Shack