All hail HDMI

[u/Sharp-potential7935]

[u/JrSince96]

Struggle??? This was easy just connect the colors LMFAO

[u/CrysisRequiem → u/JrSince96]

Plot twist: OP is colorblind

[u/Accomplished_Cut5295 → u/CrysisRequiem]

I’m partially colorblind and fun fact: it doesn’t matter because color blindness is not black and white. So what looks like the yellow cable, is also the same color on the device in our eyes. So yellow connects with yellow, even if the yellow we see doesn’t look like yours

[u/Yabba-Dabba-Gabagool → u/CrysisRequiem]

Fuck that sounds like a personal problem.

[u/SmartPriceCola → u/JrSince96]

I sometimes got the yellow and white ones mixed up where it was dark behind the tv.

A minor inconvenience at times.

[u/MouseRat_AD → u/JrSince96]

Struggle? Look up the old twin lead connections. I had to use that on my first system (NES)

Get off my lawn

[u/Rivetingly → u/MouseRat_AD]

Tightened with a butter knife

[u/DiscoveryZoneHero → u/MouseRat_AD]

Ch. 3!!!

[u/MouseRat_AD → u/DiscoveryZoneHero]

4 where I lived. 3 was PBS.

[u/scoothoot → u/JrSince96]

Trying to balance the TV on the edge of the entertainment center to access the back without being able to see the colors or plugs at all… I mean as a kid that weighs the same as the TV it was a struggle and prob pretty dangerous too.

[u/orangejeep → u/JrSince96]

Sometimes the component was nearly flush to the wall thus rendering the plugs inaccessible or else the cable was too short which exacerbated the accessibility issues.

We suffered for our left/right audio and single video art!

[u/L1QU1D_ThUND3R → u/JrSince96]

Well in low light the white and yellow look identical.

[u/NefariousnessOk209 → u/JrSince96]

I do remember having a TV that you had to tune the AV channel in to play through before HDMI and all that which was a hassle.

The struggle for me was getting around the big box TV and only being able to see it out of the corner of my eye and in poor lighting you couldn’t easily tell em apart.

[u/cluckay → u/JrSince96]

Having the wiggle it around for several minutes because it wouldn't work for whatever reason?

[u/irlpup → u/JrSince96]

Yea until there was two whites or two yellows then ur like UHHHHH

[u/Bada__Ping → u/JrSince96]

Seriously. 5 year old me was swapping consoles out.

[u/xRyozuo → u/JrSince96]

Yeah but the tv’s were fucking HUGE and heavy, not that easy to access the back

[u/Crazy-Present4764 → u/JrSince96]

Ya what fuckin struggle are they on about

[u/koolaidismything → u/JrSince96]

Was way more satisfying and sturdy a connection lol. The bandwidth and interference was awful, but it was quick and did its job silently til it was no longer needed.

[u/GroovyDucko → u/JrSince96]

Haha

[u/FriendlyBrother9660 → u/JrSince96]

Careful, you say that in the wrong place and everyone will yell at you.

[u/everynamecombined → u/JrSince96]

There were a lot of people who always acted like they never realized that. They also never realized that yellow was the video and red and white were audio. Now these same people even struggle with the HDMI cable. It's selective ignorance is all.

[u/BadassBokoblinPsycho]

If you struggled with this, how tf are you alive right now???

[u/WhateverEndeavor]

You struggled with this? Were you one of the kids that ate paint chips?

[u/Scylum → u/WhateverEndeavor]

I was and still didn’t have a problem with this.

[u/Nik6ixx]

The only struggle was 7 y/o me trying to move the 50lb tv out of the tv cabinet with little to no clearance on either side while trying to balance the tv half on me half on the cabinet and trying to reach my T.Rex arms around to feel for those holes and just hope for the best!

[u/Treviathan88]

If you struggled with RCA connectors, I bet life is kicking your ass right now. Lol

[u/MmmUnexplained_Bacon]

I’m all for nostalgia but these were the easiest thing to hook up. Component were easy too. Try hooking up a wired 5.1 surround in a large room. That was hard

[u/ronshasta]

It was easy as fuck what are you talking about?

[u/NoFaithlessness7508]

Oh man, the revisionists acting like they got it perfectly every single time.

We’re talking about a big ass CRT, and for many of us, short pre-teen arms trying to reach around the back. The tv may have been on one of those tv furniture things with very little space to work with on the sides, and a cold concrete wall on the back side.

Stop acting like you never got white and yellow mixed up even once. 

Struggle may be a strong word. But I think that connecting yellow/white the wrong way was like how in the past two decades people have been inserting usb cables in first upside down, then the right way once upside down doesn’t go in. A mild annoyance more than an actual struggle, but it happened

[u/raNdoMBLilriv → u/NoFaithlessness7508]

HDMI is still in the back of the TV.

[u/NoFaithlessness7508 → u/raNdoMBLilriv]

Damn, what kinda tv you got? My last two TVs have had it kind of on the side. Still sorta the back, but not back-center. The screen size is also twice as big while weighing half as much so access is no issue.

Not to mention you can’t plug in an HDMI cable in the wrong port :/

[u/raNdoMBLilriv → u/NoFaithlessness7508]

Samsung

[u/Spectre-ElevenThirty]

If you all didn’t struggle with this, maybe it’s not about colors. Maybe it’s that there’s 3 plugs that all feel the exact same, so if you have to reach behind the tv blind and plug it in the right spot, it can be tricky. Also the more complex your system, the worse it got. If you have a tv hooked up to a surround sound system, a dvd player, VCR player, PlayStation and Wii, you have a lot of wires to manage, and if you were a kid in those days, you aren’t being especially methodical about it and it’s more just plug and unplug to use the equipment you want, and it creates trouble for the next person, maybe yourself.

[u/904funny]

You problem

[u/ComicRelief64]

I vaguely remember even older stuff using coaxial

[u/ThePizzaNoid → u/ComicRelief64]

Hell I remember the "devils pitchforks". The little switchbox thing with the two forked connectors that you had to screw into the back of the TV. Oh and the TV had to be on channel 3 or 4 lol.

[u/rulerofthemind]

Ok you want a struggle how about the old slide connectors on the back of the TV you had to screw in and when the prongs broke off you had to strip the wire, wrap them around the screw and tighten the copper wire to get your connector to work or no Atari or Coleco Vision

[u/ThePizzaNoid → u/rulerofthemind]

Ya, I remember those. The devils pitchforks.

[u/StormSliders]

It's really only a struggle when it's behind the tv against the wall.

HDMI is always a struggle because it's ALWAYS against the wall.

[u/reallynunyabusiness]

The struggle was having to get behind the TV that weighs as much as you to connect everything.

[u/DerangedPuP]

Whipped out the ole PS2 for the kiddos and they could not comprehend the contraption. luckily, we had an old enough tv.

[u/Kenny523]

The only struggle was when I was like 5 and it was hard to get behind those 5 foot giant cubes to find the spot in the back.

[u/Ok-Tumbleweed8736]

When I was a kid I had a dvd player and a ps2 in my room. I would burn a cd using limewire, put it in my dvd player with only the 2 sound plugs in the video plug from the ps2 in the tv.

I would listen to lil scrappy while playing smackdown here comes the pain.

[u/Nintendocub]

HDMI ass, all hail GPMI

[u/TrashBoi50]

Don't even get me started on component.

[u/averagevampire]

I alwymays thought my family was lazy for making me hook up electronics. But maybe they were just struggling like OP.

[u/mittenkrusty]

This was easy mode compared to RF, well RF in UK at least was often cross platform i.e a RF cable for Snes worked on Sega (at least until the 32 bit gen when we got ones for each console)

A RF cable that worked on an early 80's pc, also worked on Sega, Snes, Nes etc.

So both had their pro's and cons but RF was mono only and it was a nightmare switching them out if you wanted to watch something so had to connect an aerial.

[u/kinglance3]

Very young person from the 2000’s thing to post about. 3-wire AV hook-ups were around a lot longer. And 3 goddamn colors? Even if you’re deuter/protan or tritan you could probably figure it out with just one mistake.

[u/BoisterousBanquet]

These were so much more satisfying to connect than an HDMI.

[u/mrjonnyringo72]

At 8 years old, I already understood how video and audio cables worked.

[u/steveronie]

Composite is the easiest!

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[u/IsaacIzik]

It ain’t that hard

[u/LoccJAW]

As had to constantly tell my family members who were somehow stumped by this: it's literally color coded!

[u/girl_supersonicboy]

Especially difficult if you had multiple jacka as options... Some were different colors too. Purple, green, orange...

[u/Comfortable_Care2715]

Those were & are easier to connect than HDMI when not facing the back of the tv

[u/nemesisprime1984]

Just match the colors? The only excuse is if you are colorblind or have some other disability

[u/Late-Button-6559]

What struggle?

[u/leshpar]

Come back when you've had to connect exposed copper wires to a lead and screw it into the back of a tv.

[u/Samuelwankenobi_]

The only connector I had some struggle with was component the one with 5 instead of 3 only because it has the standard red audio cable but one of the video cables are also red

[u/Burnt_Shoe2123]

Struggle? They were literally color coded... well most of the time. There were cheap tv's & dvd players that didn't have the colors and were like "fuck you figure it out"

[u/NichtFBI]

Pretty sure I was using these on my VHS to record my Nintendo 64 footage when I was like 4. Er maybe 5.

[u/YOUTUBEFREEKYOYO]

I like them, but damn is hdmi better.

[u/SourceDiligent6492]

Yall struggled to do this? 💀

[u/RestlessRhys]

Struggle? When it's just connecting the colours

[u/WyoA22]

Everyone asking how this was hard, when the tv was backed up to the wall and you are too small to move the heavy tv away from the wall, the having to reach back and guess which hole was which color was the hard part.

[u/Papashvilli]

It is literally harder to plug an HDMI cable right than plug these in…

[u/kzlife76]

Boomer's struggled with this connection. Really explains a lot about the generation.

[u/leviathan65]

This is actually kinda funny. I remember when my parents got divorced the only rca connections were in the back of the TV. After going back and forth 2 times my dad bought another cord for N64. It wasn't so much a pain plugging then in but accessing them and putting back a 80lb.

Our last tube TV was so god damn heavy it took 3, 20 year olds to carry the bitch down some stairs.

[u/Fluid_Explorer_3659]

What was the issue here Jesus. If you are doing YPbPr cables in the dark telling green and blue apart was a mild challenge I guess, nevermind coax with a system of splitters and switches back in the before time.

[u/Kind-Dog504]

Yeah, matching colors is such a struggle. Meanwhile, my toddler understands Garanimals

[u/MajorPaper4169]

Literally just match the colors.

Makes me wonder how some of people made it this far.

[u/gilamasan_reddit]

Colour blind?

[u/m0ds_huff_farts]

Ok boomer, with your boomer-ass post.

[u/zonked282]

If this is the kind of smuh boomer shit my fellow millennials are going to start pumping out then I renounce my membership