Not really. The cords are all the same inside, the colors are just for convenient matching of the ends.
If both ports are the same color, and wire has the same color on both ends, you’re fine. You can send yellow through a red cable. I’ve definitely had a few times where all I had were a couple of loose cable pairs and it works fine.
What about when component rolled around. Totally fucked with my young mind, red blue green instead of red white yellow. And my old man had the nice cables too, which made it really feel like I was fucking some shit up.
“Just match the colors!”
“There’s no yellow… It’s just red and white.”
“That’s impossible. Move out of the way!”
“…”
“My God.”
“What do we do now? I’m scared.”
“This is a CD player, not a DVD player. You’ve been scammed”
Not really. The cords are all the same inside, the colors are just for convenient matching of the ends.
If both ports are the same color, and wire has the same color on both ends, you’re fine. You can send yellow through a red cable. I’ve definitely had a few times where all I had were a couple of loose cable pairs and it works fine.
What about when component rolled around. Totally fucked with my young mind, red blue green instead of red white yellow. And my old man had the nice cables too, which made it really feel like I was fucking some shit up.
Isn’t the video lead of a composite video cable meant to be nominally 75 ohm, but in practice rarely was?
Video and mono sound if all you can find is a stereo RCA cable.