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One of my favorite Radio Shack products was a AUX cable to Cassette accessory. In my old Van I didn’t have an AUX port to plug my phone’s audio into the radio with, but it had a tape deck. So I used that accessory to get around that issue. Sure I know bluetooth exists, but lets just be real, bluetooth sucks… It has a delay, that actual physical wires DO NOT.
Radio Shack sold a switch box that did this. Whichever type input it had would become S-video out if that was plugged in or composite if S-video was unplugged. It was an un-powered device just like that adapter. It had both S-video and composite inputs. I’ve got one of those boxes in my main analog rack, and one of the adapters from this video.
I can’t get over it. hands like a young man. voice like a 70 year old one 🤔
I actually bought one , I had a commodore 64 and I wanted to connect it to a tv with a composite connector
what is dot corl or cawl ?
svideo to composite has a use for some pc graphics cards that have svideo out but no composite, i have a few laptops with svideo tv out but no composite so would be needed for one of these to a composite input
I had one from RS back in the day – yeah doesn’t work great for splitting but worked ok for combining. Used it with a video editing card that only had S in and out, if you used it to combine it would have the color noise on the lumna signal. The key was the little capacitor between. I think I also built my own doing that. Guess it acts as a high pass filter for the 3.57mhz color signal.
I had one of those adapters YEARs ago.
I loved those Radio Shack catalogs. There was once a pair of very expensive speakers – 1 Woofer, 1 midrange and 1 Tweeter, that was cooled by crystal salt for when the frequencies and usage raised the temperature in the tweeter. Sounded like science fiction or creative marketing. I never got a chance to hear one myself. Now lost to the sands of Time.
Huh. I’m not an analog video expert, but I thought you were supposed to use a delay line or something to blend Luminance and Chrominance. Always wondered how important that was.
I miss Radio Shack and all the parts and stuff they had.
A reason I haven’t seen in the comments so far, but what if you don’t have enough ports? You just want to add some new device to your setup, you have a spare port (possibly even switchable with your existing remote control) that you otherwise couldn’t use, and don’t want to justify going to a full external switch box. That’s one good thing from analogue, often possible to “bodge” just what you need.
Im genuinely super suprised you of all people hadn’t seen these adapters before. I had a million of those as a kid. They were for edge cases. or if you only had an svideo connector left on your TV or whatever.
People have been trying to make these for the MiSTer FPGA project. There are optional cores that can output S-Video but need an adapter like this to get it down to Composite.
My dad use to sell these adapters S video to Rca on the markets, and didn’t know how it worked so had just spliced rca into s-video and it produced an image. Also, took the adapter apart years ago to find no circuitry. These things are great when you need ‘em in a pinch or to cut corners temporary.
PS., Saw a video recently of a new, open RadioShack location in 2022. Apparently the head company is now letting existing computer/phone shops become small RadioShack franchises. The store shown in the video I saw only had a small selection, but it was still odds and ends that could be helpful in a jam.
I got one of these in about 2003 to convert the s-video output on my computer to the component input on my 28″ crt tv.
The biggest computer screen i had wss a 14″ crt. The resolution was awful and i could barely read anything even at 640×480. Thats when i discovered that TV’s werent designed for that use lol!
Not all the inexpensive Amazon cables are worthwhile. I purchased a DisplayPort to DVI adapter last year (the monitor only took VGA & DVI, while the computer output DisplayPort & VGA). It worked fine for nearly a year, until a month ago the system wouldn’t power back up after entering sleep mode.
To make a long story short, it was the bloody cable. Once I started using a straight VGA cable again, everything has worked perfectly! So much for Amazon Basics. Don’t cheap out on cables!
Not sure if anyone in this audience would know; but does the guy doing the voiceover for the British comedy ad sound exactly like the guy who played Walter in the English dub of Hellsing to anyone else?
I have one of those that came with a PCI DVR card. The card was cheap and only s-video in and out so they provided the adapter (but only one). Haven’t used it since I needed it emergently to make a v-jam session or projection show work 10 years ago. I’d run out of video inputs with everything connected to everything else! I think I was using it on an inter-layer of a live process effect so it just made it look slightly different (instead of color crawl or smearing in the program output)