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[–] [email protected] 46 points 8 months ago (1 children)

One of my roku devices still has composite out

[–] [email protected] 43 points 8 months ago

This TV probably predates composite. Either a composite to RF transmitter or one of those doohickies that they sold for the SNES to use a coax cable.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 8 months ago (2 children)

HDMI/Composite to coax convertor if that TV was recent enough to be "cable ready", otherwise you'll then need a coax uhf/vhf/fm adapter in the chain.

IIRC, back in the day, there were even composite-to-vhf adapters, but I can't seem to find any currently sold so either my memory is lying to me or they're no longer produced.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

if that TV was recent enough to be “cable ready”

It has dials. The kind that make an audible thunk when you change the channel. You think there's really a chance of it being cable-ready?!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, I had a TV in the 80s that had vhf/uhf tuning dials and coax as well since it was "cable ready". It was also oddly setup with the coax input directly below the uhf/vhf standoffs. So anything you connected to it got in the way of interacting with the coax in. And if the coax you used had a wide nut for threading on it could wind up touching the prongs on the uhf/vhf inputs feet causing fun interference.

Transitional era technology is fun like that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

the prongs on the uhf/vhf inputs feet

Prongs? I had to look that up since I hadn't heard of a VHF/UHF connection with prongs before. That doesn't seem very friendly compared to just using a regular plug? In Australia we used these connectors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belling-Lee_connector which have existed since the 1920s.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

These are the cables I was familiar with way back then.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Wow, interesting. I don't think we had those in Australia. I was born in the very early 90s but my mum had a TV from the 1960s and it had a regular plug (like the one I linked to) for the antenna. Those prongs don't seem user-friendly :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

IIRC, back in the day, there were even composite-to-vhf adapters

I had something like that for my Nintendo 64. My TV only had an antenna plug, no composite.

In Australia, we used these connectors even on very old TVs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belling-Lee_connector whereas the USA seems to mostly use BNC these days.

I had a box with antenna in, TV out, and the red/yellow/white inputs. We called those "RCA" - is that the same thing as composite?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah, composite & RCA are synonymous with eachother. IIRC it's the difference between the connector name & cable name similar to rj-4 connector l/port vs cat-# cables.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Roku has composite out (yellow, white, red) to a RF modulator and coaxle out of modulator to the tv on channel 3 or 4.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

While it will technically work, the old tube tvs had a 4:3 resolution of 5xx x 3xx or so, depending on if they used PAL or NTSC. Modern TV Interfaces are typically designed for a screen resolution of 1200x800 and 16:10 or 16:9, which means the fonts will be unreadable and half of the screen is cut off.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Downscalers exist, though you’re right about text. TV these days just isn’t designed to be legible on tube TVs because there’s really no need to take them into consideration.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago

Analog video is stupidly easy to change adapt

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

https://www.amazon.com/HDMI-Converter-Modulator-Old-Transmitter/dp/B07W58PNPP

I'm not recommending you buy this product, just showing you the type of device which allows this.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Going to need one for those first

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

I have one of those for my 2600!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Oh yeah, good point.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I know a lot of using it was actually kinda awful. I don't long for missing a finale episode because it was a bit too rainy for the signal to get through but there was something wonderful about how tactile and beautiful analogue tech was.

Also it felt really really good to be able to slap something into working.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

My old Xbox 360 I got back in 2010 was the last piece of tech I owned that could have a problem fixed with a bit of a whack. The disc drive liked to stick closed so I just smacked it on top and out popped my disc. Surprisingly never once damaged my games by doing that.

Good old faithful still runs to this day, only got retired about a year ago and was a decent media box despite its age.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

the ol fonzie

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Who doesn't have a SmartSCART? Such a funny thing to say. SmartSCART, SmartSCART, SmartSCART

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Is it smarts cart, or smart scart?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Dunno. All my brain can see is shop smart, shop S-mart!

[–] mindbleach 9 points 8 months ago

Mawmaw needs her millisecond latency. LCDs fuck with her ability to shinespark.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Think she needs to adjust the picture though

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Hell yeah grandma

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

A real life anachronism.

[–] dnick 3 points 8 months ago

That's like 1-2 adapters tops.