The maddening incompatibility of 3.5mm A/V cables
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 Published On Jan 8, 2024

3.5mm A/V outputs were commonly used on camcorders, digital still cameras, portable DVD players, and other compact media devices in the 2000s. Unfortunately there were numerous different pinouts, and you usually can't tell just by looking at it which devices a 3.5mm A/V cable will be compatible with.

Time flow:
0:00 Introduction
1:08 Video only
1:54 Video & mono audio
6:17 Video & stereo audio
14:57 Apple's flip-flop
16:43 The camcorder standard
18:32 Are you feeling lucky?
20:47 S-Video
21:42 Component video
22:56 Where to buy
24:11 Sony's solution

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