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@stolas@elekk.xyz @fafnir North Americans had lots and lots of RCA connectors, all alike but carrying different signals, for the most part.
Analogue composite on one RCA Jack, each audio channel on their own other RCA jacks...
Or ig you were fancy and had component video, each component on its own RCA connector. But not RGB...YPbPr instead.
Then S-Video was invented that put all the video pins on one connector, but audio was still separate.
It was madness.
@msh @stolas @fafnir S-Video is literally *monochrome* composite on one pin with chroma carrier signal on another pin. This let the TV use the full 6MHz bandwidth for detail information without "chroma-crawl" effects found on broadcast, mixed NTSC signals, all the while reusing the analog signal processing chain of the analog receiver. Color resolution was still piss poor though, as you're still limited by the 2MHz (approx) bandwidth it provided.
@msh @stolas @fafnir Our standards certainly justified our common claim that we were the most technologically advanced country on the planet. However, they did nothing to justify that we were the wisest. Our history of video as well as other telecommunications standards is literally riddled with decisions that makes any right-minded consumer, let alone engineer, scream in rage.