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Like you, I didn’t know an adapter like this was possible but I bought one, or perhaps an adapting cord, around 2005-06. I don’t think it was from Radio Shack.
The reason I wanted it was because my Windows XP Dell had S-Video out so I could technically hook it to my adjacent TV, which I did. It made for an easier time sharing ‘viral’ early YouTube and Google Video videos with guests. But if I wanted to capture something from my PC for prosperity, such as the look of a website, online video, or PC game, my best option for capturing video was VHS. Since none of my VCRs recorded from S-video, I found this adapter. I did use it to save video from some PC things at the time but I used it much less often than I’d imagined.
1:55 I bought a new TV set a couple of years ago and it only has composite and HDMI, not even a SCART in sight
I founded a Radio Shack MP-X 110 minute Type IV cassette at the thrift store, very rare to find, 2 sealed tapes, and Maxell XL II for 80 cents, because the cashier miscounted one of my 4 cassettes!
I used exactly this adapter to hook up my video card to an old TV. The video card only had s-video out. It might’ve had a possibility of some multi-out adapter but mine never came with one and i wouldn’t’ve known where to get one and probably wouldn’t’ve been able to order it.
I can imagine this being useful for connecting a s-video only laptop to a composite only TV
Wouldn’t the Keeping Up Appearances trailer have started life as a 25 FPS 576i PAL recording that was already converted once to 30 FPS 480i NTSC signal? That already tends to make it look pretty soft.
I had an old PC with S-video output and I wanted to hook it up to my (then) cheapish CRT Television, which had only RCA inputs. So I bought one of these adapters and all was well in my world.
I used to be a Best Buy monkey in the mid 90”s and we used to use those all the time to set-up floor display TV’s Yeah, it’s a weird thing I thought when I first saw one back in 1996, that RCA to S-video adapter.
Half expected the camera to have a Turbo Encabulator
2:08 Ahhh, the 90’s When rear projection TV’s were prominent.
For some reason that TV is giving me flashbacks to The Office when Michael was showing his new plasma tv on the wall.
About new TVs… My Samsung only have SCART alongside 2 HDMI
It would have been interesting to open it up and see what the circuitry was, but I’m guessing that may be tough to do.
Many old passive mechanical AV switches sported this feature. One I have from Radioshack has just about the same video quality as your adapter.
I got one of these for a TAM that only has Svideo input. They’re actually very electrically simple. It ties both signal grounds together, and ties C and Y together with a very tiny capacitor on the C signal. This apparently makes all the difference and mixes or splits the C and Y very well.
I have a capture card that only takes S-Video and I guess it would make a lot of sense for that.
I miss old Radio Shack.. I need a new Battery Club Card 😜
Fun fact my old cheap hyundai crt TV from 90s model ctv 3711 sn has only a scart connection no normal video jacks are present (there is a place for them but it has plastics plugs in the holes for video) soo i use some type of this adapter just that I have a composite to scart. Soo year there are tvs without composite video but have only scart
From the mid 90s to the mid 2000s I had a TV from Italian company CGE with S-video but without any composite input, so to connect a composite device I had to pass through my VCR which had one. A converter like that would have been quite useful for me, but witout the Internet back then buying those accessories from stores was kind a ripoff – at least where I live.
s-video to composite is easy but composite to s-video is the weird one. How do they separate chroma and luma from a combined signal?