Color coding of RCA jacks

Okay, thanks.

I never noticed the latter, but you're right. Blue and Red are the colors of the main right and left main parties in Canada (and orange for labor far left). But red is still identified with communism everywhere I think- the East Is Red, the "Reds" etc.

There's the mnemonic port->wine->red->left ;-)

And I have to think of black = death to remember which is hot and which is neutral. I guess that wouldn't work if you were Japanese and knew white as the color of mourning.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Hello Spehro,

Looks like it.

Then there is stereo which is red for right and white for left, afaik. That always got me confused since I grew up in Europe and in politics the color red is associated with the left wing over there. In the US it would be blue ;-)

Regards, Joerg

I read in sci.electronics.design that Joerg wrote (in ) about 'Color coding of RCA jacks', on Fri, 4 Mar 2005:

Nevertheless, for stereo Red is Right and bLue is Left. It confuses sailors as well.

I would think that nowadays in Europe it would be green.

Bob

Composite video is yellow Component video is green, blue, red

Stereo audio: Red is right, white is left.

For digital audio, 5.1 channel audio, etc. good luck. :-/

Hello John,

That makes me wonder even more why they picked red for right. But blue? I have never seen a blue RCA plug on a cable that came with a TV or stereo. At least in the US it is always red and white for the audio path.

Regards, Joerg

I read in sci.electronics.design that Joerg wrote (in ) about 'Color coding of RCA jacks', on Sat, 5 Mar 2005:

Four-core leads for hi-fi cassette recorders have red, white, black and yellow in US and Japan. In UK, the colours varied until the Far Eastern imports flooded the market. One set I had was red, blue, orange, green.

Red/blue maps were drawn for the 2000 election, though before that I don't recall the issue.

The red/blue maps don't look much different than the 2004 version except that, becasue of the 2000 census, there are more electors represented by "red" states. ...and there will be more (the pundits say 6) after the 2010 census.

I think the whole red blue thing is relatively new. Communism has been associated with red for a long time, but I don't remember anyone making a big deal about blue as a color for Democrats and red as a color for Republicans until the 2004 presidential election.

--Mac

How's your color vision?

Boats and planes have green lights on the starboard side. I may have an RCA cable with a green jack. I've never seen a blue one, though.

Oh, good. Then I doubt you think the starboard running light is blue, just that red/right ( R = R ) messes with sailors heads.

Oh I believe you on the cables. Aesthetically speaking, blue and orange sound ok. They'd go well with some high-falutin' gold-plated speaker wires.

I read in sci.electronics.design that Active8 wrote (in ) about 'Color coding of RCA jacks', on Sun, 6 Mar 2005:

Normal trichromatic.

I'd post pictures of my blue and orange examples, if only I could find them. (:-(

After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the cessation of their interference with foreign governments, the neocons stepped into that role and, as a result, were assigned the 'Red' designation.

:-/

I read in sci.electronics.design that Active8 wrote (in ) about 'Color coding of RCA jacks', on Sun, 6 Mar 2005:

Yes.

It doesn't confuse sailors--the jacks are like coming into port. The rule is Red-Right-Returning.

Cheers,

Phil Hobbs

Yeah. Thinking outside the boat, I see.