I swear, if I have to struggle with the inputs on my piece-o-crap Sharp TV one more freaking time then I'm going to drive an axe through the screen. Does anyone other than me have to fiddle with the RCA jacks every 10 minutes just to maintain or even get a good picture or sound? I'm like, oh my God, I just want to look through the Nintendo Channel and I can't even do that thanks to the inputs being all loose and whatnot. Losing to your 11-year-old brother because you aren't able to see and counter his Ganondorf Punch at just the right moment is one thing, but come ooooon. It doesn't even have the red one needed for stereo sound. I mean, what is that about? The thing was manufactured in 1998, for goodness sake. There's really no reason not to have it, you know? Do I even need to explain why this is a bad thing?
Yours is a pain and torment I know all too well. Those damn RCA jacks were so finnicky that the video would flicker if you walked too quickly past the television. The number of curses I shouted at my TV are beyond count... Get yourself a DVD player with inputs on it and play through that. Save yourself from hell!
Yes, yes my largest TV won't come in and goes out with RCA video most of the time too. I had to go ahead and get S-Video for all consoles so it would work better, but even then when the TV overheats it will suddenly shut itself off and I have to wait to let it cool for awhile before it can show the picture again. The pause button then is my only friend.
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Yours is a pain and torment I know all too well. Those damn RCA jacks were so finnicky that the video would flicker if you walked too quickly past the television. The number of curses I shouted at my TV are beyond count... Get yourself a DVD player with inputs on it and play through that. Save yourself from hell!
Yes, yes my largest TV won't come in and goes out with RCA video most of the time too. I had to go ahead and get S-Video for all consoles so it would work better, but even then when the TV overheats it will suddenly shut itself off and I have to wait to let it cool for awhile before it can show the picture again. The pause button then is my only friend.