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We got rid of snail 🐌 mail with email, but now when we need an adapter we need snail 🐌 mail yet again.
I needed one of those when TV’s/Receiver’s inputs/outputs were somehow tied up with other device hookups and only incompatible hookups were left.
Man, I so miss Radio Shack. Up here in Canada, they were bought and converted into “The Source” but they were a mere shadow of Radio Shack and even they started disappearing from a lot of cities.
There are so many BestBuy stores around, I am surprised they haven’t decided to add a more Radio Shack section to the stores.
When you showed that tv I thought the Image was weirdly letterboxed in center of the screen. I have never seen an LCD display with such massive bezels. There is as much bezel surface area as there is screen real estate. It might even have more bezel than it does screen lol.
Modem mate looks like a SNES accessory
I remember using a cable s-video to composite to connect my laptop to a tv… but by that time flat TVs with vga input were common
I miss Radio shack.
I miss radioshack. It was the best. It was like the older man’s Micro Center with an emphasis on Verizon phone sales.
S Video was mostly used by computers and DVD players, that adapter was useful to connect devices that lacked a composite video connector.
I had an early 90s GE low end crt tv that only had s-video & coax inputs
We used to use these at work, every so often we’d need to run a longer cable for a camera or screen, and being able to use one or the other cable was a nice option in an emergency
Dell used to supply a very similar cable with some of their laptops that came with a S-Video jack on the laptop. This was in the days well before HDMI when TVs and projectors had Composite video and S-video was not as common. As I remember, they worked about as well as this Radio Shack adapter.
2:00 – As for modern TVs, most still have one analog input. The LG high-end 4K TV I bought in 2018 and the Sony high-end 4K TV I bought this year both have a 1/8″ TRRS minijack that uses a break-out cable to split it into red-white-yellow RCA inputs. (Of course, the Sony didn’t come with the break-out cable, and uses a different TRRS arrangement with *GROUND* on a different conductor, so I can’t just use the old LG’s cable for it.)
When life gets me down, this kind of miscellaneous content keeps me going. Thanks for all the great content. Love how many nerdy folks are out there reminiscing about RadioShack.
15 minutes wasted, still doesn’t explain how it does it.
How can a passive thing convert the signals?
Tear it down and show us!!!
The small TV is so awful, I love it!
I was able to convert s video to composite for testing only using jumper cables
I seem to remember having something similar. I know I sold these where I used to work but I also think I got one with a TV Tuner card. Like maybe the card only had S-Video on it and they included something similar to this (though the S-Video side would be male) to plug into the card and give you a composite RCA style jack instead. Though that one may not have needed ANY passive component as it may have only worked in one direction? I read in the comments this probably has at least a capacitor inside?
Black Magic run away!!!
Radio Shack products. Always reliable, never cheap, but always on the edge of crap quality. Used them whenever I couldn’t find a mainstream brand name product.