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Old 03-01-2017, 10:07
Paul_Blackburn
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Could someone tell me what the following cables are use for.

https://www.kenable.co.uk/product_in...t0UaAtDG8P8HAQ
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Old 03-01-2017, 10:17
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The red and white plugs are for analogue audio stereo and the yellow plug is for composite video. The four-pole jack connector on the other end is presumably for a device which has this type of socket to feed composite video / analogue audio out. Can't think of anything off the top of my head but I would imagine it would be some older type of adaptor box used for connecting the VGA output and headphone socket on an old laptop to your TV. These days it is simpler using a direct HDMI connection.
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Old 03-01-2017, 10:26
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gomezz is right, i have a couple here, they came with old camcorders so you could display them on the TV, but that was in the days of tape, even my old Mini DV camcorder had them. My newer HD one don't as it have a HDMI socket
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Old 03-01-2017, 10:30
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Could someone tell me what the following cables are use for.

https://www.kenable.co.uk/product_in...t0UaAtDG8P8HAQ
They were used to connect camcorders to TVs or other devices, I seem to remember there were two versions, possibly Sony and Panasonic, that were not compatible. I remember that people who brought Sony Digital 8 tapes into my department for transfer were told to bring their cable and camcorder with them as we had no means of playing Digital 8. If they hadn't got the cable we advised them to go to a branch of Jessops not far a way to purchase one.
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Old 03-01-2017, 10:36
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Thanks for those replies as just trying to find out what to keep and what to throw out.I also have a red,white and yellow cable with a scart plug on the other end and another with a black and a yellow with 3.5 jack plugs fitted.
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Old 03-01-2017, 10:45
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Who doesn't have a box of spaghetti cables in the back of a cupboard?
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Old 03-01-2017, 10:49
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Applications: Any device that needs analogue video + stereo audio in or out where space is at a premium.

Camcorders have been mentioned. It was common to see this on digital cameras for replay of photos and video clips on to a TV. You might find it on action-cams, dash-cams, certainly on portable DVD players, wireless video senders for TX/RX, mini monitors (I have CCTV set-up monitor that has a 3.5mm video socket next to the BNC video input), and I also have an Android media streamer box which is little larger than a packet of 20 cigarettes. On the back is HDMI, Ethernet, USB, and a 3.5mm jack socket for a cable just like the one in the picture.

This type of jack connection isn't great for video because the plug is unshielded, but if it's a toss up between the potential for a bit of interference on composite video or having no AV in/out connection at all then the lesser of two evils is the necessary compromise.
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Old 03-01-2017, 17:55
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Thanks for those replies as just trying to find out what to keep and what to throw out.I also have a red,white and yellow cable with a scart plug on the other end and another with a black and a yellow with 3.5 jack plugs fitted.
Throw out??? Cables????
There's no need to throw out cables. Just keep them in a box, like gomezz says.

I've got two or three of those leads that came with various things. Never had cause to use them, but you never know when they might come in handy?
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Old 03-01-2017, 18:16
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For a really odd cable how about mini USB to three phonos? It's a standard Canon camera accessory, the camera senses it is connected to a computer, if not it uses its mini USB to o/p composite video and audio.
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Old 03-01-2017, 19:00
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Never had cause to use them, but you never know when they might come in handy?
Even if it involves chopping of the end that nothing uses anymore and fixing on a plug that something you have does.
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Old 03-01-2017, 21:53
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The combined video & audio jack connector is used for the new Pi analogue video/audio. From my understanding you can use a normal as a normal audio headphone socket as well if you don't want the video ?

http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com...-i-use-to-conn
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