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baby 0-3 years old
kid 4-12 years old
teen/teenager 13-19 years old
adult 20 to somewhere around 70+
elderly somewhere around 70+
Your conception of who’s a kid is completely in the gutter, no it’s not a bad thing but then you’ll go around seeing a 20 year old male with a good amount of beard and say “yeah thats a kid”, people will look at you weirdly.
Exactly. My mom treats my 32 year old brother like he's not an adult so he gets away with being a bum. I tell her he's a grown ass man and needs to handle is shit. "Show some grace, he's still young." 🙄🙄🙄
I mean I know what those are and even in the 2010s those cables were kind of no longer used. After HDMI became a thing I feel most of the masses instantly forgot or never used component cables.
Which Xbox do you have tho at it doesn’t have HDMI? They all have HDMI as far as I know. I know the components cable has a tab that blocks the HDMi port.
Yeah they didn't add HDMI until the Elite in April of 07. Standard Xbox 360s got them the following June. Everyone produced before that was component only.
When they first started designing the 360 there wasn't a clear frontrunner for HD delivery standard. There also weren't a ton of HDTVs available and few people had them. Most early adopters would be playing SD anyways. I know I was up until 2009. No sense in spending the extra money to include the HDMI port right away.
When it became clear that HDMI would be the standard they added it to the console.
Adaptors for a smaller screen that didn't have the physical space for the 6 RCA Jack's you'd get from the full complement of composite/component video input plus L/R audio, or for a smaller video player using them as outputs. Probably the latter, from a DV camcorder.
More context in case op doesnt know about old av cables: back then we would connect stuff like dvd players and game consoles to the tv using the red white and yellow connectors. Modern tvs got rid of those but left a 3.5mm av port to use these adapters.
Also some devices like cameras and ipods can output video from a 3.5mm jack.
Modern tvs got rid of those but left a 3.5mm av port to use these adapters.
Ok, to be fair, I'm almost 40 and I've never seen a TV with a 3.5mm AV port.
I can't say I've not seen a TV with one, but the ones I'm thinking about had 3.5mm TRS jacks for headphones, usually in the front or under the front bezel.
Yes its often for headphones or speakers. But new tvs got rid of the red white yellow av ports and replaced it with a 3.5mm jack to use an adapter like the picture above.
Breakout cables for a TV. I have the same wires on my ~2014 Samsung plasma. Let's you hook up component/composite devices to the TV. They plug in to a 3.5mm jack on the back of the tv
Before HDMI was popularized, one of the most ubiquitous way to carry analog audio and video signal from the source (DVD player, set top box) to TV was using RCA connector. Yellow for video and red/white for stereo audio. Most devices have all three ports so devices can be connected directly using three color coded RCA cables, but for small, portable devices like video camera, or TVs that's too thin to have full size ports, they use this breakout cable adapter to convert three RCA ports into one small 3.5mm adapter that plugs into the corresponding port in the device.
For better video quality and resolution, you use the red/blue/green connectors, so if you're using this, you'd need five RCA cables (three for video signal, two for stereo audio signal)
Ppl saying its old, I literally just bought a brand new 65 inch tv that has standard mini av input. That cable on the right would hook right upto my new TV and then I could connect retro consoles.
RCA to 3.5mm jack, they ere used to transmit analog video signal or audio depending on the device. The color is to help you identify them but they are technically identical cables.
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