• radostin04@pawb.social
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    1 year ago

    Inaccurate meme - the white and red RCAs in composite typically don’t actually carry the left and right channels - usually, the white one is L+R, meaning both the left and right channels combined into one, and the red one is L-R, the difference between the right and left channels.

    This is done so that a mono television, which will only have a yellow and white port, will still be able to hear both audio channels, as opposed to having to completely miss out on one of them

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      1 year ago

      This must be BS or a regional thing. All the RCA ports I’ve seen in North America are labeled L and R, not L+R and L-R.

      • Holzkohlen@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        I use those on my speakers and I can flip left/right stereo if I flip the cables. I think that confirms that they don’t have both in one I think.