You kind of forgot to explain why hdmi is not always the answer... You just explained all the different types of connectors...

@hackelle

5 жыл бұрын

He mentioned VGA for older laptops, but that's all

@CharalamposKoundourakis

5 жыл бұрын

Waste of time really

@ToraTiger78

5 жыл бұрын

I don't think the idea was to tell what was "better", only that sometimes you can't use an HDMI because it isn't a viable option.

@cesarrodriguez1399

5 жыл бұрын

@@ToraTiger78 well... Then maybe they should of picked another title for the video... I spent 7 minutes wondering ”why hdmi wasn't always the answer" but never got one.

@alvallac2171

5 жыл бұрын

@@cesarrodriguez1399 My mom's computer has both HDMI and mini DisplayPort, but to get 1440p at 60Hz you have to use DisplayPort. With HDMI, it can only do that resolution at 30Hz. So there can sometimes be situations like that, where HDMI is an available connector but not the best connector. It just depends on your hardware.

Everyones talking about SCART, and I'm over here like: What about DVI?

@Oystein87

4 жыл бұрын

DVI is just basicly a HDMI with another plug so not much to talk about.

@needforspeedgaming7148

4 жыл бұрын

@@Oystein87 without the audio, ofc

@humanbass

4 жыл бұрын

Dvi is audioless hdmi.

@yanuehara8017

4 жыл бұрын

What about display port?

@zangvlogz6146

4 жыл бұрын

Arial CCAA ..

“Why hdmi isn’t the answer” “Literally tells you how good hdmi is”

@cadetsparklez3300

2 жыл бұрын

it has terrible audio quality and displayport has always been better per generation

@CoasterMan13Official

2 жыл бұрын

@@cadetsparklez3300 maybe your TV is garbage.

"HDMI isn't always the answer" /explains how HDMI is always the answer ...

@frimaneabdelhamid

4 жыл бұрын

Old video game consoles..

@petelee2477

4 жыл бұрын

@@frimaneabdelhamid implying that people aren't just using an emulator while playing on a 4k monitor and a PS4 controller. Seriously I've played the original punch out(sadly I'll probably never beat mr. Sandman) and beaten Megaman 1-5(misleading title by the way and megabot would have been much more accurate and the naming convention would also work better on the enemies too) and I don't even know what an NES even looks like

@LUR1FAX

4 жыл бұрын

Except for DisplayPort.

@gausts

4 жыл бұрын

@@LUR1FAX DisplayPort makes no sense, if everything ran on HDMI DisplayPort wouldn't have a purpose.

@Mewtz

4 жыл бұрын

@@gausts 144hz+ monitors can't run on hdmi They have a purpose u know

You guys just totally forgot SCART!!!

@tobywenman4769

5 жыл бұрын

Scart was a European thing I'm pretty sure

@kingkirb647

5 жыл бұрын

skert skert

@noamblumberg6003

5 жыл бұрын

scart is a European standard, but there is also the similar JP-21 which is Japanese and very different. In both cases, I'm okay with them ignoring it because they are Canadian

@Heksu99

5 жыл бұрын

@@noamblumberg6003 What, are you saying that only Europeans had to suffer SCART, that horrible cable that couldn't stay in position at all?

@noamblumberg6003

5 жыл бұрын

@@Heksu99 please don't misrepresent what I said. I said SCART is a European standard. Not that others didn't have it. However I do stand by the fact that it isnt/wasn't as common in other areas.

Why TechQuickie isn’t always the answer

@entitledOne

5 жыл бұрын

Because it often doesn't give an answer at all.

@noahd2716

4 жыл бұрын

Sicarius they focus too much on the “quickie” side of things and completely skip on the actual answer portion.

@stephensnell5707

Жыл бұрын

@@entitledOne Techquickie ALWAYS GIVES THE ANSWER

“Headphone jack can be found on older smartphones” Galaxy s10: Am i a joke to you?

@Infinity9_

4 жыл бұрын

Nearly every other phone ever: Fuck off non headphone users

@soniablanche5672

4 жыл бұрын

older iphones*, good phones (android) still use them lmao

@theambergryphon4266

4 жыл бұрын

And note 9

@resevil2396

4 жыл бұрын

The removal of the headphone jack has to be the worst example of a downgrade becoming a standard and consumers just eating it up. Even just for in car use I hate Bluetooth. It takes too long to connect, and Ive sometimes experienced some annoying interface. An aux cable just works Immediately. I really hope all audio doesn't eventually ditch everything but Bluetooth. Soundbars under $100-150 don't sound that great. I got an old rca stereo off Facebook for a measly $25 and it sounds way better than most affordable Soundbars. Especially since the sub $100 units don't usually come with a sub.

@theambergryphon4266

4 жыл бұрын

@@resevil2396 I know right, and some of these assholes try to justify it. Every company got rid of it at this point.

"For the sake of completeness" ...doesn't mention 'scart' ports :P

@Akyomi777

4 жыл бұрын

lmao yes

@drumguy1384

4 жыл бұрын

SCART is a European thing, we have never had them in North America, also are they still on digital TVs in Europe? I'm asking because I don't know.

@drumguy1384

4 жыл бұрын

instead of European, I should probably say a PAL thing. I'm not aware of SCART ever being used with NTSC.

@drumguy1384

4 жыл бұрын

@vDosc UV7 Sure, SCART was a thing with PAL, but I'm still not sure PAL is used that much anymore since the advent of digital TV. Do you have a TV with a SCART jack on the back? Do you use it?

@girlsdrinkfeck

4 жыл бұрын

@@drumguy1384 UKs sold in UK still have SCART and RF ports and VGA even top of the line LG TVs

You forgot that big DVI-D cable!

@thomaswaffles7907

5 жыл бұрын

DVI-I, DVI-A and dual link

@GabrielToribioMonsta

5 жыл бұрын

How long did DVI last before HDMI took over for it; a few months? 😂

@JohnSmith-xq1pz

5 жыл бұрын

Indeed

@bioazard50

5 жыл бұрын

@@GabrielToribioMonsta My Benq 144Hz monitor can only output 144Hz via DVI (60Hz via HDMI) so it had some use before high bandwidth HDMI.

@snintendog

5 жыл бұрын

DVI exist many years andwas only superseded by HDMI after HDMI gained traction with its DRM capabilities being launched.

No love for SCART? :(

@Ivanus59

5 жыл бұрын

Lol, I was about to ask that. :P Maybe it's cause SCART is an European standard (and they're Americans)? It's other name is EuroSCART. :p I hated working with those lol. One of those 21 pins falls out of place and no more sound. :s

@menuly

5 жыл бұрын

Scart is not common in North America

@Jacon95

5 жыл бұрын

5:51 I see SCART connector

@mtbrain1

5 жыл бұрын

@@Ivanus59 *Canadians

@Isgolo

5 жыл бұрын

@@mtbrain1 canada is in North America... Just not in the united states :P

In case anyone's wondering, the reason component cables don't carry a green signal is because it calculates the green based on how much is missing from the red and blue... I think... It might be a bit more complicated, but that's my understanding

This Video did not answer it's own question 👎

@Silmerano

4 жыл бұрын

@Evil GOD Joe It's= It is, Its=possessive form of the word it.

The most clickbait Techquickie I've ever clicked on.

@lessglare

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, this video is the turning point of clickbaiting, dunno why.

@BlueEyedVibeChecker

4 жыл бұрын

tech quickie bait clickie episode 1

@nicholascho64

4 жыл бұрын

clickbait is not a problem if your content is actually good

@xs6819

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah I think he left out one

@noahd2716

4 жыл бұрын

sueishnao wouldn’t really consider this video good. It literally explains why you hdmi is the way to go other than older tech that you can also get around by using emulators.

3.5mm was not an audio only standard. Camcorders used 3 pole 3.5mm for RCA video and stereo audio output.

@Charlesb88

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, it's true that some some devices have used 3.55mm headphone jacks and plugs for Composite A/V out/In, notably Some older Camcorders, Portable/handheld TV's, Portable DVD players. Both certain iPOD models & the RaspberryPi both have headphone/line-out audio out jack that doubles a composite A/V jack. They all use a special 3 RCA connectors to a tip, ring, ring, sleve 3.55mm phone jack.

@HelloKittyFanMan.

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, you beat me to it!

@HelloKittyFanMan.

5 жыл бұрын

@@Charlesb88 No, it's tip, 2 rings, and sleeve.

@Charlesb88

5 жыл бұрын

Maxx Fordham! Sorry my mistake. On a two ring 3.55mm plug the sleeves look very much like a ring, but your right the "third ring" is referred to as a sleeve.

@HelloKittyFanMan.

5 жыл бұрын

Not just technically. Also, my what is right? Which possession?

"on older smartphones" *laughs in android* 👀👀💀💀💀💀

@Dparrey

4 жыл бұрын

Except the flagship android phone, the pixel, which doesn't have them. So I wouldn't say Android anymore going forward. Honestly it's a clunky port anyway and over the last couple decades they've been a pain. Growing pains aside I'm glad to see them go.

@theambergryphon4266

4 жыл бұрын

@@Dparrey Dude stop making up an excuse that you're "happy to see them go" What pains exactly? I'm still using my Note 9 with headphone jack. Also, Pixel is only Google's flagship.

@its-amemegatron.9521

4 жыл бұрын

I dont understand, how is it a pain? That's like complaining that my PC has too many USB ports

@jefff4982

4 жыл бұрын

omg I hate being able to plug headphones into a mobile device if I needed to. What an annoying option that's available to me.

@mgpps114

4 жыл бұрын

It's-a me Megatron. Its not a pain for the customers. Its pain for the manufactor. Its pretty hard to fit in all the features, like Waterproofness, huge Battery etc. you want, in such a small form factor. I have still an iPhone 6s because of that but I can also understand the companies *Sorry for my bad english

You missed DVI, my old sony tv had it and it was great lol

@Boz1211111

4 жыл бұрын

Isnt it still widely used?

@marijntuinstra5310

4 жыл бұрын

@@Boz1211111 yup, well at least here in the Netherlands

@humanbass

4 жыл бұрын

It's hdmi without audio and bulkier. Really nothing special.

@S1mplector

4 жыл бұрын

Vga is the worst of all, both compared to the hdmi, and dvi.

@CodeHerder

4 жыл бұрын

Dont forget Dual Link DVI !

So...... why HDMI isn't always the answer ????

@okaro6595

5 жыл бұрын

Because if some asks you what the clock is, you sound funny if you say "HDMI".

@MineSpeak44

5 жыл бұрын

I was expecting more comparison to display port and thunderbolt

@ToraTiger78

5 жыл бұрын

Because an NES, or PS1, or record player probably doesn't have HDMI? This was basically education for folks who are too young to know that there's more than HDMI out there for "older" devices. ;)

@cmb9173

5 жыл бұрын

because analog cables like VGA which lose quality due too long calbes work until the image gets completely unrecognizable. digital media has consistent quality, but after a certain point it gives up entirely, that's important when you need to connect stuff from far away places (beamers for example, depending on the room you're in it could be 15 or so meters) and don't want to buy expensice cables as well as signal repeaters.

@gamerdweebentertainment1616

5 жыл бұрын

@@MineSpeak44 Yes, bvecause Linus always complains, why you no have Thunderbolt and I'm still wondering why is that important?

Ahh, so THATS why Souljas console has those ports...

@RingoYote

5 жыл бұрын

you mean the re-branded generic chinese pop station? lol

@backupplan6058

5 жыл бұрын

Renner 03 pretty sure the 4k stood for the cache size because it certainly doesn’t stand for resolution.

@gunmatheretrogamer747j

5 жыл бұрын

Nah dats a rebranded rs 97

@mrfucktard1243

5 жыл бұрын

@@backupplan6058 No it's a cause marketing term because what they're doing is illegal anyway so they'll try to get a few extra sales out of it. The guy was making a joke.

@backupplan6058

5 жыл бұрын

@Mr Fucktard so was I but clearly straight over your head. Like that thing supports a 4k cache, 2k at most.

I was hoping to hear about the audio latency difference between hdmi and the other forms of audio interfaces.

@tanishkbhatt9455

10 ай бұрын

No

This makes me really happy. Not all standards and formats are created equal and in order to get the best result, you need to be familiar with a lot of different things. This video is one of the best I've seen out there explaining this stuff; I intend to share it!! Thanks for making this!!

Man, Ocarina of Time on the N64 sure looks a lot like Super Mario World on the SNES.

@skyc3560

5 жыл бұрын

I am very annoyed that he accidentally mixed up Mario world, n64 and ocarina of time. I understand though. I’ve made that mistake before

You forgot the SCART or Euroconector as I call it. It is difficult to miss as it is massive.

@subscriber6181

5 жыл бұрын

Lol, not in North America.

@okaro6595

5 жыл бұрын

It still is smaller than separate connectors. SCART had plusses and minuses but because of it European TVs ha better connections. The most annoying feature was that as it was bidirectional, poor cables caused shadowing. I typically made the cables unidirectional to prevent this. My previous TV had three SCARTs (two RGB and two S-video) and iun addition RCA+S-video on the front.

@Charlesb88

5 жыл бұрын

​@@okaro6595 The bi-directionallity of SCART did have some benefits in certain situations. One such benefit was allowing for Premium Pay TV services that didn't require a separate tuner in the Pay TV set-top box but instead could use the TV or VCR's tuner with the box only decoding/de scrambling the analog pay TV signal. This would allow recording a pay TV program without having to tune the pay TV box to the right channel manually ahead of time or using the crude timer function found on many analog pay TV descramblers. In the U.S., with Analog Premium Pay TV (in the 80's and 90's) we had to suffer with pay TV descrambler boxes that had a separate tuner. In order to record a pay TV program you either manually tuned the box to the correct channel ahead of time or you used a crude timer function on the box that was a real pain to set. With the manual method you could not record more then one program on different channels. At some point, some VCR's included a solution to this problem by including an external IR transmitter on a cable you plugged into the VCR then sat the transmitter part in front of your pay TV box allowing the VCR to change channels on the pay TV box when recording timed programs. (The Sony version of this IR transmitter was called a "Cable Mouse" (for Sony VCR models that included it).

@okaro6595

5 жыл бұрын

@@Charlesb88Well we did not have those. Here set top boxes had always a tuner. On use was to set a digital set top box. One just needed to connect the TV and VCR to the box and one could watch and record digital TV and also watch the VCR.

@CatWithoutAHat901

5 жыл бұрын

Also called Euro-AV

Saw the thumbnail and immediately thought ‘those were the things my Wii used’

@harris9624

4 жыл бұрын

*Uses

@fatyoshi7564

4 жыл бұрын

@@harris9624 stop being technical

@theambergryphon4266

4 жыл бұрын

@@harris9624 Could be used, maybe it's dead now.

@pootis1699

4 жыл бұрын

Get the component cable connected for the wii and a good 480p crt. Makes the wii display much better.

@hasdarivahsla6351

4 жыл бұрын

Also ps2, but I can only say that because I have a ps2

I remember getting my first HDTV and AV receiver back in 2006, and WOW, would a video like this one really have helped me out a whole lot back then.

The idea that you had to explain all the older cables makes me feel really really old... It took years before we had a TV with RCA inputs for our NES ending our futzing about with the RF adaptor >.>

@vangildermichael1767

5 жыл бұрын

I never even had a TV with RCA inputs. I could connect RCA throughh a VCR that had the white, red, yellow on the front as an input. And it, in turn, connected coaxial. Until I got a flat screen in the 90's

@bsanchez3563

4 жыл бұрын

Gamecube also ports the snes and n64 rf adaptor as well

Wtf? No love for SCART? That was the best standard that was used with everything before HDMI came along. Old DTV receivers were usually SCART only.

@erictheberry

5 жыл бұрын

And they forgot DVI. Just as good as HDMI for standard def but no audio.

@ColdestLivewire

5 жыл бұрын

north america never got scart

@dashtesla

5 жыл бұрын

@@ColdestLivewire It's a video about standards not standards in north america XD

@onetwo6039

5 жыл бұрын

@@dashtesla fair argument.

@florichi

5 жыл бұрын

Scart was shit. The Cable always unplugged because the connector couldn't hold it's own weight.

Techquickie: "Let's talk about connections..." RF Connector: "Am I a joke to you?" Techquickie: "Yes, you are!"

So, Why ISN'T HDMI Always The Answer?

@kosmas173

3 жыл бұрын

Displayport

Jesus I'm getting old. A video explaining RCA, Component, Optical ... etc.

@brokenacoustic

5 жыл бұрын

I thought the same thing. Damn you, march of time!

@garcjr

5 жыл бұрын

But I still use optical to run from my TV to AV receiver.

@specialopsdave

5 жыл бұрын

Nah man, I'm 16 and have been familiar with these ports my whole life. You're not getting old, kids are just getting lazy, and a bit incompetent.

@lpnp9477

5 жыл бұрын

​@@specialopsdave No, we're definitely getting old, but probably not as quickly as we think. This is more of a case of "I have no idea what video to put out this week, let's just explain cables."

@tylercgarrison

5 жыл бұрын

was thinking the same.

Why did I even watch this? I already knew this.

@namelessguy199

5 жыл бұрын

Becuz you were wondering why hdmi isn't always the answer.

@CarthagoMike

5 жыл бұрын

and you likely are still wondering why it isn't always the answer, since they did not actually explain that.

@in5aneguy597

5 жыл бұрын

i bet you didn't know that ethernet is for connecting to the internet, be honest !

@NinjaFresh

5 жыл бұрын

@In5aNeGuY Oh shit you got me!

@motazfawzi2504

5 жыл бұрын

@@in5aneguy597 Who would've known?

Fact: DisplayPort > HDMI

@zerrocool809

3 жыл бұрын

Bruhtonium F

@AlexandreBugado

3 жыл бұрын

fact: USB > GTX 1090 Ultra

@Jaymac720

3 жыл бұрын

For computer stuff. DisplayPort’s major advantage is daisychaining multiple *monitors.* For home theater, HDMI is better. Let’s be real, very few people are using anything more than 4K and in the home theater space, 60Hz is as much as you’ll need (for now anyway). For gaming or other visually intense work, displayport’s higher bandwidth is definitely a plus. For audio though, they’re basically identical, but HDMI has the audio return channel so the tv can send its own generated audio back to the AV receiver. That’s probably the main thing keeping HDMI on top in home theater. DisplayPort does have higher bandwidth and supported resolutions, but they just aren’t necessary in the home theater space and it doesn’t have the ARC. Come down off your high horse now

Ethernet was first introduced for third party control the same as RS-232 / RS-485 ports, only in recent years it became popular for streaming services. And while IR is indeed unreliable, the reason for those are for integration into home automation systems such as crestron, control4, AMX or even your cheap logitech harmony, so that multiple devices can be controlled from a single interface.

Because you can just download better ports and cables

@motoryzen

5 жыл бұрын

I wish I could download a way to be able to pin/put multiple Directories/folders into/onto my Linux Mint's panel at the bottom. That's the last minor thing to knock out before going 100% linux. But yeah, the good oooool days of composite jacks to enable recording tv straight to vhs tapes. My childhood was fun.

@yaynative

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah from the same place you download more RAM

@fivesquaredyt2521

5 жыл бұрын

69 likes

@billy4734

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, just like I downloaded all this: An RTX, Intel i7 8th gen, 64GB DDR4, 10TB (Well this, you could maybe do due to the cloud.) HDD, 240GB SSD, ASUS ROG-STRIX Motherboard, NZXT Water cooler, NZXT Case, And for the power, a 750W PSU. I downloaded it all on images.google.com

@yaynative

5 жыл бұрын

@@billy4734 Brilliant

Great video. You got one thing wrong though. 3.5mm headphone jacks are available on 'good' phones, not older ones.

@jad3415

5 жыл бұрын

He must be referring to iphones

@MrMarty77

5 жыл бұрын

I can't agree more

@ConquerorAR

5 жыл бұрын

I guess he meant to say it in a quote

@cbernier3

5 жыл бұрын

Nope, new good ones don't have it either. Check out the Pixel 3, best phone, no headphone jack.

@needforsuv

5 жыл бұрын

And the iPhone SE, the last 'good' iPhone before they went huge again!

Finally! Someone who explains all of this stuff in one place! Though one thing I would like to know is what the “control” ports on the back of some audio receivers that look like 3.5 mm headphone ports are for and how to use them.

@i2rtw

4 жыл бұрын

Those are probably IR blasters that stick to the IR receivers on various components, DVD player, cable box, etc...

@TehButterflyEffect

Жыл бұрын

They are 1/8" jacks, and are meant for you to plug an IR receiver into.

This was a cool trip down memory lane! I would love to see a deeper look with more history. I had no idea that RCA actually meant something!

Displayport>HDMI

@UltramarinePrimaris

5 жыл бұрын

Displayport Master race

@prich0382

5 жыл бұрын

Super MHLL > Displayport

@Renuclous

5 жыл бұрын

That satisfying click when you use a Displayport Cable for the first time. Mmmmhhh... So firm in Place...

@PC-qx3bv

5 жыл бұрын

Scart > Displayport and HDMI

@RotcodFox

5 жыл бұрын

I can't really tell the difference between HDMI, VGA, and Displayport when looking at 1080p resolutions.

Hey, how about SCART and DVI ??

@therandomman2971

5 жыл бұрын

P4inT NoBle Official SCART was mostly used in europe afaik. Don’t know why they missed DVI and display port

@Mayhemm007

5 жыл бұрын

They DID mention DisplayPort in the video, and I can't recall ever seeing home theater equipment with a DVI port.

@caminoprojectUS

5 жыл бұрын

@@Mayhemm007 it was a thing for a little while not exactly compatible with pc dvi

@kalijasin

4 жыл бұрын

@Mayhemm007, Or SCART, BNC, ThunderBolt, SDI, DiiVA, CoaXPress, DB13W3, DMS-59, Apple Display Connector, D-Terminal, etc.

*Laughs in SCART* We had it pretty good in analog era.

The fact we need this video makes me feel old

Please tell me this is for people born in 2000s?? 90s kids remember all of this

@XenoSpyro

5 жыл бұрын

To be fair, I didn't know the HD Component's green connection was for brightness, and not for splitting G from RGB data.

@joesterling4299

5 жыл бұрын

@@XenoSpyro It's both, really. The green component accounts for about 60% of the luminance (brightness) of RGB; so it can be used in that capacity with good results.

@ryantoomey611

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I remember having to use an RF modulator because my TV did not even have RCA jacks!

@Bolero6879

5 жыл бұрын

I don't want to sound like a broken record but I was born in 2002 and I remember most of this

@justanotheryoutubechannel

5 жыл бұрын

sfxworks I’m from the 2000’s, and it makes no sense that people wouldn’t understand what this stuff is.

scart? DVI? I keep forgetting that I am almost 40, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised that there are people about these days who have never used or heard of some of this connections.

@alvallac2171

5 жыл бұрын

*these (plural, and different pronunciation)

@brunor.1127

5 жыл бұрын

scart? This is america, not some old rotting communist country in europe

@powandwow750

5 жыл бұрын

My PC monitor uses DVI-D

@justitgstuff5284

5 жыл бұрын

DVI isn't very old. I only switched to HDMI a couple years ago from it. xP IDK what scart is, probably because it's not NA.

@bsanchez3563

4 жыл бұрын

A,so control s aka s link like most devices use

Everyone asks about SCART, I ask about golden SCART!

I have to admit, Jon has gotten tremendously better since the last time I saw him and seems to be very comfortable with speaking and reading his scripts. I'm impressed!

Here's a little more detail about them analogue ports. Composite Video (CVBS) carries brightness and colour information (called Luminance (Y) and Chrominance (C)) on a single wire within the cable. S-Video splits the Y and C signals through separate wires witgin the cable. The Green/Blue/Red RCA cables carry a YPbPr component video signal. Luminance (Y) is in the green cable while the red and blue cables carry "the mathematical difference between the colour blue and Y (Pb) as well as the colour red and Y (Pr)". (It's a weird colour space, so just look up YPbPr or YCbCr if you wanna learn more about it.) Now here's something I'd wish the video covered: RGB over EuroSCART or JP-21. EuroSCART (or just SCART for short) and JP-21 were connector types standardized in Europe and Japan that were capable of delivering analogue RGB component video (though they also carried either Composite, S-Video, or YPbPr component video depending on what the source is sending). RGB component video differs from YPbPr component video in that the three colours of the image (Red, Green and Blue) are send through their own wires through the cable. It is, on paper, the highest quality analogue video signal there is. Dedicated Retro Gamers (Shout-outs to Try and Coury of MLiG) swear by it. Here's a little fun fact about SCART: When connected to an RGB source, SCART cables can carry up to 720p video, while when connected to a YPbPr source, the maximum video resolution is 1080i. Pretty impressive, considering that connector was standardised in the 70s, when most North American consumer televisions still had just RF coaxial.

Gotta love that rca port!

RS-232 is essential for anything requiring a permanent remote control, like the touchscreens and button panels you see at big sports bars, most offices with conference room TV & teleconferencing, even retail environments which are now getting TVs all over (with media player PCs connected to TVs via RS-232). I use it almost every time I do A/V work.

You can also use the Ethernet to connect to a home server if that's how you've catalogued your old DVD and Bluray collection.

I remember when I bought my Nintendo 64, I came home with it, unboxed it and tried to conect it to my TV, then I realized that it didn't have the traditional RF coaxial cable, instead it had three cables with strange colorful plugs (RCA) that I had never seen before, and my TV didn't have any port wich those cables can fit, it only had the RF conector, so I called my uncle and with his help we connected the console through an old VCR, and that's how I finally could enjoy my Nintendo 64.

@viper13178

5 жыл бұрын

connecting thru a vcr was also good for recording your gameplay

@JRRacing64

5 жыл бұрын

Ah the good ol' vcr trick! Use to do that with my old 13 inch tv.

@RideRedRacer

5 жыл бұрын

uncle saved the day

@xiro6

4 жыл бұрын

@@viper13178 you could started today a youtube channel with all your old gameplays.

Is this for people who bought those Soulja Boy Consoles?

@ellianagrant6294

5 жыл бұрын

Or people who play the wii

@PlastiGomi

4 жыл бұрын

funny little +scam on the system they say "4k 1080p HD" but they give you compositae cables witch can only do 240p to 480i so there lying just because it can go into a 4k tv dose not mean it's actually 4k

@RyanTosh

4 жыл бұрын

As a cereal killer, do you take people's (Kellogs) life?

I remember playing with RCA cables to know what cable did what lol or when your TV had a secondary RCA-IN port but you could only use it for mono audio but most of the time I used SCART *transition ring made out of stars*

“Audio Coaxial” is not a “totally different kind of cable” from what is used to hook up a cable modem/cable box. In fact, it is basically the same 75Ω coaxial cable with a 75Ω RCA connector instead of a 75Ω F-type connector, connector adapters are cheap and readily available, and each connector can be replaced by the other on the cable. In fact, for long runs, especially behind walls or in the ceiling, it is common to use RCA-to-F-Type adapter bolts in the wall plates and use the cheap, well-shielded, high quality, and widely available RG-6 cable (the coax used for modern digital cable/internet transmission in the home) with F-Type connectors (since they are more secure than RCA) to run a subwoofer. If you need long or custom cable lengths, this is also a great option, and you’ll generally end up with a higher quality and much cheaper cable than if you purchased an RCA cable.

Talks about N64, shows SNES =b

@HPD1171

4 жыл бұрын

talks about zelda ocarina of time and shows Super mario world

Oh... my.. god... this video was nessecary? I used composite regularly until 2011, still use component, and have always used S-PDIF. And I'm 16.

In europe you will also find Scart. A big connector that carries analog audio, and seperate lines for r,g,b, and brightness as well as composite and other stuff for compatibility.

"Ethernet... Well... I Don't think I have to explain this [...]" And you feel the need to explain USB Before hand with no issue?

Went to Best Buy recently trying to find a nice set of RCA cables to go from my phono preamp to my amp. The guy had no idea what I was asking for. Kept trying to sell me an HDMI.

@reinbeers5322

5 жыл бұрын

That's why I stopped asking when searching for more specific stuff like that. Saves me the headache.

@gfjfjufidi2880

5 жыл бұрын

Robert Hathaway Bestbuy? 😂😂

@Dataanti

5 жыл бұрын

ive had that experience with RCA cables, as well as a cross over cable. i had to explain to the guy what a cross over cable was, he just showed me too the Ethernet cables (which i didn't know where they where so that part was helpful) after inspecting them all, i told him that they didnt have any, and he tried to tell me the Ethernet cable should be able to do what i need it to do because it has 6 pins, and that none of them needed to be changed around XD he got the 6 pin thing because the cable standard was cat 6. i ended up just buying a patch cable, buying a crimper, and a some connectors and made my own. I know cross over cables are not used in most consumer goods these days but i still use plenty of them at work and for other projects, so i was surprised that they didnt have any at any store i checked. and i was also surprised at how clueless these people where, especially because i was 19 at the time, and they where all pretty much older then me by at least 5 years

@GlobalGaming101

5 жыл бұрын

Are they hiring 16 year olds now at Best Buy?

@ScottWright

5 жыл бұрын

Yikes.. Lol

Man, I remember the days of having to connect my game console using an RF modulator because the TV did not have RCA jacks. All the TV had was the screw in coax cable jack for the tuner. Then later I I connected through a VCR (yes, that was a thing) since it had an RF modulator built in.

Looking forward to part 2 when they actually answer the question now that the groundwork of explaining what the connectors do.

5:37 AND ALSO USED FOR INTSTALLS IN COMMERCIAL BUIDLINGS WITH ROOM CONROL SYSTEMS

Oh, how much better we had it in Europe. SCART was amazing at the time. ;)

@mossy1259

5 жыл бұрын

jezzermeii ikr, remember those tvs that had one coax and one scart

@mattisandersson9661

5 жыл бұрын

amazing? i remamber the screen always flickering and you had to wiggle the scart cable a bit untill the picture became good

@jezzermeii

5 жыл бұрын

@@mattisandersson9661 I think flicker sometimes occurred because of miss matches between refresh rates. Some TVs were 50hz, others were 60hz. Some sources were 50hz and others 60hz. I know that the Gamecube would flicker like crazy if you picked the wrong refresh rate for your TV; unlike the Gamecube, most sources didn't give you a choice on refresh rate. I never had a problem with the connector itself, however.

@mattisandersson9661

5 жыл бұрын

I wasent that old during those times but there where often proplems with the connection pins if a remember correctly. Plus most pal tvs where 55hz.

@Laurabeck329

5 жыл бұрын

They did lose connection sometimes but for the most part it just worked and image quality was amazing. (Well at least as amazing as standard deffimition video can get)

no love for the Scart socket?

@harbl99

5 жыл бұрын

Scart's not old school enough to be retrocool nostalgiabait yet, and gives the Displayport fanbois nothing to be sneery about. It's the tech version of the old 'middle child problem'.

@bspringer

5 жыл бұрын

I also missed it. We used it until a year ago on our DVD player (yup the TV was 576p) Since our new TV is 4k and doesn't support scart we now use component

@MauriceGS

5 жыл бұрын

Well thats probably because SCART was only used in Europe

@wingracer1614

5 жыл бұрын

@Marco Stazi It's not indifference, it's the fact that North Americans have no idea it ever existed.

@aretard7995

5 жыл бұрын

@@MauriceGS EUSSR

Another one you will sometimes find though generally only on really high end models aimed at a more professional market is an SDI input in the form of a BNC connector. Those are used by professional TV cameras and are also included on some higher end HD camcorders etc too mostly the sort of recording equipment that will set you back for a 4 or 5 figure price tag thus why it's not common to see it on cheaper consumer TV models but it's not unheard of on some of the higher priced units. Workstation graphics cards like the Nvidia Quattro etc can also output to SDI too.

Note that some cheap 3,5mm to RCA audio cables (and 3,5mm to RCA adaptors etc) can have the left and right signal in the wrong plug. I always double check this with a left/right test song or something regardles if it is a cheap or more expencive cable. Just a tip👍

@flagger2020

Жыл бұрын

Strangely I've always used red for left and white for white.. now for phono to phone it doesn't matter but now you got my curious.. red is port side after all..

I'm guessing SCART wasn't used in Canada either hence no love for it. Though in retrospect I wish North America had proper RGB on TVs of the past.

@erroneum

5 жыл бұрын

Unless I'm remembering incorrectly, the reason why televisions in North America didn't use separate RGB, but rather Y/Pr/Pb is in order to avoid breaking backwards compatibility with older monochromatic displays. When adding color to the transmission standard they simply added separate chrominance information to an otherwise empty part of the signal because the monochrome televisions would simply ignore it.

SCAAART!! WHERE ARE YOUUU?! :D

@subscriber6181

5 жыл бұрын

in Europe

Not all audio surround systems are X.1 channels X.2 is also common enough to mention, allowing for two subwoofers. Most systems just output the same signal to both subwoofer anyway since no standard formats use two sub channels, but you can use it to tune subwoofer audio range, increase output, or even just allow better subwoofer audio range without shaking the house apart with a single massive unit

3.5mm audio jacks are fairly new in the grand scheme of things and fairly common/standardised that's why no one wants to get rid of them now i suspect. when i was a kid audio jacks werent measured in metric/milimeters. you had large solid dc audio jacks for speakers and audio equipment then you had to have some weird adapter plug that plugged into the fisher price cassette player or other audio source and then newer headphones still a standard/english unit of measurement jack but quite a bit smaller plugged into that. but if you tried to use those smaller ones in say a sony walkman made for a metric plug, well if i'm remembering correctly and based on the fact that searching for dc audio jack brought up some metric 5.5 mm plug in the google results, if it was a 5.5mm plug you were dealing with the audio jack/plug would fit possibly but be snug or not go in all the way and thus possibly glitch a bit, but you likely wouldnt physically break your walkman or discman etc, but if you tried plugging it into a 3.5mm port you'd likely bust something in the port or the device itself by trying to force it in not realizing there was a difference until it was too late.

3.5mm audio plugs are also used for video

@starman8853

4 жыл бұрын

Lunar Lancer well yeah but (I might be mistaken) afaik that’s just a standard composite signal and is only used for outputs and not inputs (at least from what I’ve seen) you usually have to use a simple converter that converts to an RCA connector

HDMI is never the answer. display port is. and display port within USB C is the future

@RideRedRacer

5 жыл бұрын

barely any devices use display port besides pc. HDMI is usually the answer

@givemeajackson

5 жыл бұрын

@@RideRedRacer what devices worth talking about besides PC are there?

@KillFrenzy96

5 жыл бұрын

@@RideRedRacer DisplayPort is superior to HDMI in almost every way. HDMI was only popularized to enforce royalty fees owned by TV manufacturers. TV's use HDMI instead of DisplayPort so that everyone is forced to stuff HDMI into their devices for royalty fees.

@RideRedRacer

5 жыл бұрын

@@KillFrenzy96 i already know Display port is better...all im saying is 99% of the electronics i own dont use display port, they use hdmi

@Katzelle3

5 жыл бұрын

DisplayPort: 32.4 Gbps HDMI: 48.0 Gbps

The 3.5mm Jack isn't audio only, it can do so much more. I remember like a long time ago my mom had one of those little square payment things that plugged into the headphone jack

there was a Fisher Price camera that used the 3,5mm jack for composite video and mono audio

Is he talking to us or the prompter lol

I am realy missing SCART and/or JP-21 (both do and look the same but are wired up differently) because they allowed you to get analoug RGB out of you systems if supported. RGB gives you the best quality from an analoug source (again, if it's supported). Oh, and you forgot RF as well, even thou this is the worst option for getting an analoug video signal ;) [PS: sorry for bad english]

@cainabel2553

Жыл бұрын

Bidirectional SCART often had crosstalk issues

The USB ports on certain TVs can also be used as a power source for certain devices (Chromecast and a couple other streaming devices for example), as well as some HDMI cables that have built-in processing chips that are powered through USB, like the Seiki and Marseille HDMI cables.

Thanks, this video made me feel old as shit. "Demystify the ports in the back" Jesus EVERYONE should know what RCA is

0:22 Super Smash Bros. Melee players: *jimmies rustled*

1:53 Ahdeeah.

Back in 1992 I asked my parents for a VCR for Christmas, and I told them the EXACT MODEL of JVC VCR I wanted!! See my parents DO NOT involve themselves into my life much, and with that they NEVER KNOW what to get me for Christmas because the literally KNOW NOTHING about me as I am more than the "black sheep of the family"!! BUT enough of my damaged emotional scares of my childhood and life....and with that getting back to what I was saying, this was back in 1992 and I asked for a certain JVC VCR I had been looking at that sold for just $300 and had the S-VHS (or Super VHS which IS Hi Def) back then. Come Christmas morning my parents told me "You are going to LOVE your Christmas present, and though I opened up what I KNEW was a VCR, the unit they got me as a $700 Sony VCR that DID NOT have the S-VHS feature and wasn't even the same (or similar too) the JVC in specs or features!! Sure I was grateful that they spent the kind of money that they did, even though the VCR they got me was WAY MORE EXPENSIVE then the JVC unit I had originally asked for!! BUT the lack of the S-VHS feature was only part of the disappointment I felt six months later. You see the Sony was very cheaply built even though it cost more at retail, and with that the Sony VCR basically died just six months after I got it has a Christmas Present, which I have never had a lot of faith in Sony products anyhow to start with!! In the end I had bought two more of the same VCR (using a voucher I got from the trade in of the first one to buy the second one), and both of them died as well just a year later!! But then the JVC unit was no longer available. But there is a "kicker" to this whole story!! When I asked my dad why they did not buy the JVC S-VHS unit he told me that the sales guy said to him "Nobody will EVER USE high definition and JVC was stupid for making a VCR with high definition and high resolution, and that it was never going to be a "thing"!!"" And my dad bought into it hook, line and sinker, because my father like other people in my life think I am stupid and they are "smarter" than I am!! Funny thing is just three years later after all this happened I bought a new TV that I was kind of "forced to buy" because my old TV broke down, and the new TV had the S-Video In (which works with the S-VHS port) on it, as well as the three hi def RCA jacks (which the JVC VCR had as well with the Green Blue And Red Jacks), AND since every TV I have own has had these same connections that were found on a 1992 JVC VCR!! In closing of this little rant, I had sales people that DO NOT UNDERSTAND technology if the things they are actually selling!! And I even hate the idiot that people like my father think I am an idiot BECAUSE I DO understand things that he can't imagine, but because he doesn't take what I think with much respect I am treated like an idiot because I see the future WAY BEFORE most other people do!! Which is why I now run computers with Linux BEFORE it was "cool to do so"!!! Sooner or later people will wake up around me, and by then again I will be way ahead of everybody else as normal!!

That digital coaxial and toslink optical connectors use a communication format known as SPDIF and that supports PCM formats as well as Dolby and dts formats. PCM audio is lossless like standard WAV files or standard HDMI audio. Edit: Most 5.25" CD and DVD drives you can get for your PC have a digital output using standard DuPont connectors and those also use SPDIF format, so you can literally wire that to an RCA connector or use some TTL circuits to drive an optical connector and then connect it directly to a digital receiver. Some CD and DVD drives even have some unused pins or unmounted switches/parts where you can use those pins/positions to wire a diy panel with Play, Stop and sometimes Pause buttons to use the drive as a diy/standard player. ;)

You also forgot DVI cable connections. My monitor uses this connection. It gives better resolution than the RGB cable that old tube monitors used.

I've broken nearly 10 HDMI / mini-HDMI cables so far but, the only RCA that's technically broke on me is one I cut in half to soldered on to my Raspberry Pi... so, half of the RCA cable still works!

I learned a lot from this video. Please make a detailed video about AV Receiver connections in the future.

The 3.5mm Jack can be used for video. It is not audio only. Check out the rpi which sends composite video over the 3.5mm.jack

But what about SDI connectors? Some TVs have them instead of the traditional Coaxial cable.

@bsanchez3563

4 жыл бұрын

Or twin lead lol

@palpytine

4 жыл бұрын

I wish they still did. High end cameras and audio kit uses SDI (currently at 24Gbit/s) for everything... video, sound, timesync, etc. Distributors and networks *hate* consumer SDI because it has no support for content protections, it's designed for people who are recording video, no those who are playing it back. In this role it can push around uncompressed video (and other data) in the highest quality possible, with minimal latency and frame-level synchronisation across multiple feeds. Film-makers, broadcasters, and studios need this. One typical use-case is being able to feed back audio to the earpiece monitor of a presenter, without any perceptible lag. SDI can do this, HDMI will add a couple of frames of delay which gets to be _very_ disorienting. Similarly, you'll need your monitors to have minimal latency... both on camera and any monitors used by the director or remote focus-puller. But that, and the timecode stuff, is not the stuff that home users need so much. And the big studios are so very very keen to mandate that we only be permitted to use something with HDCP. It's very definitely an answer to the question of "when isn't HDMI always the answer"

About headphone jack: "older smartphones..." My s10 still has a headphone jack lol

@Rikorage

4 жыл бұрын

Your phone is old, sorry :(

@bean9333

4 жыл бұрын

@@Rikorage guess 3 months old is already old for a phone. RIP Samsung galaxy S10 lol

@danwic

4 жыл бұрын

iPhone users arent up to date with their tech knowledge ;)

Great video, well spoken, very knowledgeable. Good stuff.

back it the day i used this for my xbox 360 because the cable came with the console, i even used it for a short time on a crt tv

Missed SDI, probably the most versatile cable there is.

Ah ha! You left out SDI. Used by pro's of course on high end pro equipment for video. Longer cable lengths and no negotiating for HDCP - therefore less to go wrong = more robust. Ok, I know, a different and rather specialised marketplace, but useful to at least be aware of other alternatives. And what about LPT: - oops, showing my age! Still used to drive some amateur CNC machinery via MACH 3 s/w. BobUK

@georgekanulas9037

5 жыл бұрын

He missed out scart and dvi (both analogue and digital)

3:32 once i thought that my tv is on fire because of that glowing toslink connector

On RS232, it is used in the need for two way control instead on one way IR. In a software interface it's the difference between a volume up button and a slider.

I remember my father being slightly confused when HDMI was launched, as he thought that since we've progressed from RCA/composite to component video cables, more cables equals higher video quality

@HrHaakon

Жыл бұрын

The HDMI comes with multiple cables inside, so... it's not completely wrong?

@jamescheddar4896

11 ай бұрын

@@HrHaakon yeah it looks like they basically just started running power lines and a bunch of twisted data connectors to the ducks mouth and each generation gets more and more dense with wires. USB-C and HDMI are essentially the same thing

I want a Techquickie with the girl at 0:36

FANTASTIC explanation, but modern AV Preamps also have balanced connectors for the audio. This reduces hum/noise for long runs.

3:40 Not really, in some rare cases there are 3.5mm jacks (3pin) that act as A/V input/output.

@archivushka

4 жыл бұрын

For example raspberry pi. Or some cheap digital -> analog tv boxes

One right and one red

What about SCART? They were even in the picture you had for USB.

@dirtybongwater5751

5 жыл бұрын

Scart isn't actually a thing

@marijntuinstra5310

5 жыл бұрын

scart is more a european thing so i dont blame them dont mentioning it but still a bummer

the 3.5mil jack isn't only used for audio. on my tv, it handles the component and composite input with a dongle attached to it.

2:45 or for when your HDMI port is broken somehow. My xboy 360's is, component saved it from the bin.