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I’m pretty sure I have one of these adapters and used it in a chain of cables and adapters while attempting to hook a fairly modern laptop up to an old black & white TV.
another reason, albiet rare, is one we ran into years ago where one of our input jacks quit working. so for example if our s video output was being used elsewhere we could use the same composite output to the s-video input
I made one of this when I was younger for something that I can’t remember, it is just a capacitor in the chroma and the luma straight to the composite cable.
I went to radio shack in Defuniak Springs FL today to get some parts that no one else had,drove 120 miles to get there.
I used a similar one of these adapters to get around a faulty composite port on an old projector
Purchased one of these adapters 18 years ago to connect a PC video card that had an s-video out to a TV that only supported composite. This was the early days of MythTV video capture, basically build your own TiVO.
I almost bought one 20 years ago when they were $20 or $25, couldn’t remember. Stayed with composite. Do remember seeing in the catalog back in the day. Ordered once for $4 from a catalog while back, not radio shack brand.
Do new tvs really not have composite inputs?
Ha! I have that same AMDEK Color I
I tried the exact same trick with my Commodore 64 Luminance/Chrominance output — using a simple Y adapter, based on some magazine (pre easy-access web) and I thought it was just me that didn’t have good luck.
Oh my, I still have that S-Video converter that I first bought in 2009, I wanted to hook up my hp laptop (which had S-video out) to my Sony Trinitron WEGA CRT TV, to play some games. It never worked. I ended up making my own cable with some resistors, and that worked perfectly!
I love your comment about the bezel on the Coby LCD television. I remember those days, not too long ago in my mind.
You’re forgetting graphics cards with TV out from early 00s that often only had S-video output but many older consumer CRT TVs (at least in Europe) only had composite inputs and newer had SCART (can do S-video with an adapter) on back and composite in front, but I saw almost none with separate S-video in Europe. And with camcorders and other things you always got the SCART-composite adapter because it’s bidirectional and cheaper to make, but the fancier SCART to S-Video needed a switch to set which way it worked and was always bigger and more expensive to make.
All I know is Eos rebel is high performance digital SLR camera. A camera that can amaze you with its capabilities.
My favorite adapter was an audio attenuator cord that reduces the output level of my scanner to a mic level for my tape recorder.
I am totally not surprised that Radio Shack offered a curious device like this that would seem to be designed for a *very* limited market. But if anybody was going to do it, RS would. More than once I had some odd hookup (electronics!) conundrum and walked into a Radio Shack store, more hoping than expecting to find a solution. Only to find an inexpensive adapter/plug/converter that did *exactly* what I needed. Man, I miss Radio Shack! And of course…..
…..back in the day, you’d pick up that $1.50 adapter or patch cord, and then saunter over to the side of the store with the hi-fi gear. I couldn’t impulse buy anything like that when I was in high school and college, but it did help me set goals for future purchases. Or what to look for when the next sale rolled around. The weekly (bi-weekly?) Radio Shack flyer was always one of my most eagerly anticipated items of “junk” mail!
I was expecting you to open it to see how it works
One thing I noticed with your C64 tests is that the composite output syncs fine but both the tied Y/C and the RS adapter skew the top of the picture. This is common when sync voltage is low, such as evident by the dark picture when Y and C are tied. But it’s more confusing on the case of the RS adapter as it appears to pass the picture at full brightness.
You should make a video using a Sega Genesis with it. I always wanted to try it, but even as a kid I was skeptical.
Oh nice another product from Radio Shack. It does a good job considering it’s an adapter that uses no power technically. There are some Radio Shack stores around if you go on their website you can search but their privately owned stores when I’ve read also you can still buy stuff from Radio Shack online as far as I’m aware. That BBC video my favorites out of all of them is Faulty Towers, are you being served?, keeping up appearances, Mr Bean which wasn’t listed. Britain’s great comedy but you can’t forget Benny Hill LOL.