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When I was growing up, we had a TV that defaulted to S-video when it was in use. It only had one set of inputs only. We had to use a switch box that converted our VCR to S-Video so we could also watch our DVD player on S-Video. It did the same function as the adapter. It suffered from dot crawl issues.
I once had a graphics card that had S-video out, but my TV at the time did not, so I used an adapter like this so I could use the bigger TV screen to watch videos and play games
Keeping up appearances and Are you being served? …. Classic
I thought Radio Shack was long gone. Did some Chinese company buy the rights to use the name or something?? Like RCA, Magnavox, Montgomery Ward, etc. Those companies no longer exist either, but products are still manufactured under their name brand.
funny, I use that same model Sony DVD player in my stereo system. Mostly to take advantage of the SACD capabilities
Oh I had that Amdek monitor. I pitched it when flat panels started getting popular. 🙁
How what why I think I’ll procrastinate. I installed a projector and rather than repurposing the component cable or returning a separate composite cable I decided an S video composite adapter was far easier.
I got mine from cables to go though and the quality was quite good I still have a couple extras hanging around they had the benefit of having male and female.
it also had to VGA this was pre-HDMI.
Were you able to test how the composite in and s-video out to a crt looks? I could imagine that some people would want something like this adapter to use on an original nintendo, which didn’t support s-video (at least without modding it).
The S-Video label on the packaging looks like it was hand printed one letter at a time
this would’ve been really helpful with camcorders. I know in the early 2000s they all had S-video outputs but no RCA jacks in order to make the cameras smaller. but not everyone had a VCR which had an S-video input. (I know because I am one of these people)
I have a handful of these. I used them a lot when PC TV cards were big in the 90s.
f you uploaded at 4K we would be able to tell something from the video samples, but this way 1080p on youtube is like composite 480p on cheap DVD 😀
Certain I still have at least two of these adapters from RS. At that time my CRT tv had Svideo, but the “interesting coolness” of this adapter is probably why I bought it for one of those “you never know” occasions.
It’s likely just a simple LCR band pass filter centered at 3579545Hz, likely with a bandwidth somewhere around 0.5-1.5Mhz. I’d expect this thing will notch this band out of the luma channel, which will make it look softer overall.. a good multi burst signal and a waveform monitor/oscilloscope would show what it’s doing rather easily… I used to align old GVG 3000 switchers back when I was a mere “engineering boy”
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I used this EXACT RadioShack unit for years to output my ThinkPad R51 to my composite-only TV at the time in combination with a 3.5 to RCA cable. Worked great, I’m sure it still works (it’s in a bin somewhere).
If you’re still reviewing RadioShack products, are you celebrating SepTandy?
Hey you bring up an interesting question Kevin
Is there actually TVs out there today that have eliminated all the analog inputs?
I got some TVs as new as from 2018 to work on and most if not all had analog composite as well as combination analog/digital f-conn female jacks on them.
Some even still had VGA or display port as some may call it.
One was a smart set that had a cracked screen and even it had two sets of analog composite+stereo analog jacks.
WOW! That TV has 1995-level LCD bezels! My uncle got me this awful Windows CE “netbook” for my birthday one year that had a comically small screen with massive bezels. I played target practice with it. Couldn’t even load YouTube and this was like 10 years ago I think.
Interesting to see the green-ish border instead of the light blue on the C64 at the end. Did you POKE that yourself, or is something calibrated strangely? It’s much more common for the VIC-20 to have a wide variation in border colour.