Xbox 360 Composite/Component AV Cable.
When I got the original xbox 360, my cousin thought I was joking when he saw the power brick
it had its own internal fan and if you put it on carpet it overheated and cut the power. just a masterpiece of industrial design.
No wonder the Red Ring of Death was a thing back then. I still remember the people "fixing" the red right of death by wrapping the original Xbox 360 in a towel and heating it up/overheating it on purpose, to try "reflow the circuits"
Yeah apparently it would fix it and then the Xbox 360 would work for a few months to a year, but then the issue would return, and eventually the motherboard would warp from overheating and the console would stop working all together. So a temporary fix that would work a few times, until it completely stopped working. At least that's what I've heard, I've never owned an Xbox.
My 360 that broke because I had it sideways and I guess they didn't like to be played that way. Red ringed and ate my copy of Blue Dragon.
I still have my original slim PlayStation 3. That thing must be around 13 years old now, maybe older. I've had to replace the thermal paste multiple times though. My original slim PlayStation 2 only broke because the ribbon cable for the disc drive got severed during a fall, I think I tripped over the wired controller, which caused it to fall.
my Wii went through the washing machine three times, fell out of the back of my truck on the highway (couldn't find it for three days), and I had it in my front pocket when I got shot at and it blocked a couple .45 rounds, saving my life. Still plays guitar hero 3 and project M just fine.
You joke, but I remember having an original Motorola Droid and running over it in a car after leaving it on the bumper in a parking lot. Then a couple days later having it fall off the car again while driving on the beach and it still worked.
My brother found out that just punching the top after you pulled the sides off fixed it. There were literal fist marks and broken plastic on top of his, but it worked.
Guess percussive maintenance would temporarily re-connect the circuit or something lol
People would do that also by putting the thing in an oven, iirc. And it fucking worked.
Using this to connect to an HDTV because your surround av receiver only has optical and coax so you gotta get that 5.1 somehow
I had one of those component cables for my PlayStation 2 so I could play games in progressive scan/480p, and Gran Turismo 4 at 1080i. The exact same cable also worked on the Playstation 3 for HD gaming at 720p or 1080i, though it wasn't quite as crisp as HDMI.
720p 1080i looks fine, I really don't get the hype over 4k maybe I'm just old
I meant that 720p on component looked slightly worse than 720p through an HDMI connection, likely because HDMI is a fully digital signal and component video is analog. But yeah unless you sit close to the screen or have a massive screen/TV, 1080p is perfectly fine.
It's only really good on big tvs. 4k in smaller screens is really unnecessary. 1440p makes some difference in bigger monitors, but for like 21" screens 1080p is great
lol i just used one of these today to play sonic unleashed
though mine only has three plugs coming out of it
