27th June 2011, 1:08 AM
Quote:Really it was surprisingly wasteful to put on both a custom output jack and standard A/V jacks. I'm surprised they did that at all, considering that particular detail has no effect on signal quality. I suppose it was a matter of making it compatible with any standard a/v cables one had lying around. The custom jack does save the effort of needing to stick an s-video output on there as well.Apparently the very first Japanese versions did have an S-video port on the back too... but yeah, it is a very, very strange design decision. You never see consoles with two identical outputs on the back, if there's more than one it's because they're different, like the RF and AV outputs on some systems. I have no idea why Sony did that.
Quote:So the railing the laser slides back and forth on is metal? Interesting... It must be a little later model then. What is the model number on the bottom? 1001?Maybe I don't know what I'm looking for... which part is the railing, exactly? All I can say for sure is that the system is from Oct. 1996, is a 1001 model (though there were multiple versions of the 1001), and does have some metal in it for sure, including the shielding or whatever that the laser's on. And it works fine, reads discs no problem.