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Wall plate?
Hi,
I've just bought a house which had a wall-mounted TV in it - on the wall, it looks like there's a wall plate with 9 (3x red, yellow and white in 3 clusters) plug things and an aerial. There's another wall plate on the opposite wall which looks exactly the same. Both wall plates have been numbered (in pen) 1, 2, and 3. Bit dense when it comes to stuff like this so I'm really not sure why these are there and what their purpose is - other than from what I've googled, they could be something to do with video/audio connection? Surround sound maybe? I have photos but I'm not sure how to load them on here (if I can) so a description is the best I can do. Help! |
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You can't post picture directly on DS. You have to post them to some image sharing site then post a link here.
Anyway. Red, white and yellow sound more like stereo audio and composite video, those are the standard colours for such connections. But as for why they are there is anyone's guess. Only the person that put them in would be able to explain what they were used for. But without taking the plates off the wall and chasing the cables between them I would suspect that the red socket marked 1 on plate 1 is wired to the red socket marked 1 on plate 2 and so on. It would simply be a way of transferring audio and video signals from one plate to another without having the wires trailing across the floor. |
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But without taking the plates off the wall and chasing the cables between them I would suspect that the red socket marked 1 on plate 1 is wired to the red socket marked 1 on plate 2 and so on. It would simply be a way of transferring audio and video signals from one plate to another without having the wires trailing across the floor.
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Looks like to me the previous owners used composite feeds to connect other equipment in place of scart connectors as an easier option in the wall but ultimately a trade off of poorer quality video. Scart adapters would be needed to plug into the actual TV for two of the feeds and the remaining would use the composite input or could of been used to take an output from the TV.
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