Heavy Duty 180cm Composite AV Cable for PlayStation 1, 2 and 3 – Thick, Heavily Insulated RCA Lead
This is the heavy-duty version of the standard AV lead for PlayStation. It does exactly the same job. It carries picture and stereo sound from a PS1, PS2 or PS3 to the yellow, red and white sockets on a television, but it is built to a noticeably higher standard than the cable most consoles were supplied with.
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Please note this is a composite cable, which is standard definition. If you want a sharper picture from a PS2 or PS3 you need our component YPbPr lead instead
Fits PlayStation 1, 2 and 3. Every model with the wide AV Multi Out socket is covered, including the PS1, PS One, the original and slimline PS2, and the fat, Slim and Super Slim PS3
Key product details
- Heavy duty build – a thick, heavily insulated round jacket instead of the thin flat ribbon these cables are normally supplied as, with a moulded body and a ribbed grip on every plug
- Picture and stereo sound in one lead – the yellow plug carries the video, the red and white plugs carry left and right audio
- 180 cm long (1.8 metres), finished in black
- Plugs straight into the yellow, red and white sockets on any TV, monitor, projector, VCR or capture device – nothing to power, nothing to set up
About this item
The difference is the jacket. The lead these consoles originally shipped with, and almost every replacement sold today, is a thin flat ribbon: three fine wires moulded side by side in a strip you can bend flat between two fingers. This one is a round, thickly insulated cable of the sort you would expect on a decent piece of AV equipment. It is heavier in the hand, it does not kink into a permanent crease when it is run around the back of a cabinet, and the moulded plug bodies give you something solid to pull on. On a console that gets moved, unplugged and packed away, that is where these cables usually fail first.
It fits every PlayStation with the wide AV Multi Out socket. The same connector was used across three generations, so one lead covers the PS1 and PS One, the original PS2 and the slimline PS2, and all three PS3 shapes: the fat, the Slim and the Super Slim. If your console has the wide flat socket rather than an HDMI port, this is the lead for it.
What it does not do is high definition, and that is worth being clear about. Composite is the standard-definition format the consoles shipped with, and it is the only picture a PS1 can output. A PS2 or a PS3 can do better over a component YPbPr lead, and we sell one of those separately – so if a sharper picture is what you are after, buy the component cable rather than this one. What this cable is for is a reliable, well-made version of the connection every one of these consoles is guaranteed to support, and which every television with RCA inputs will accept without any setup at all.
Straightforward to use. Push the wide plug into the AV Multi Out socket on the back of the console, put the three coloured plugs into the matching sockets on the television, and select the matching AV or Composite input.
Not sure which lead you need? Use the Cable Finder — pick your device and it shows you the exact lead that fits.
Complete your setup
HDMI-only TV? Use this composite AV lead with our composite AV-to-HDMI converter. It accepts yellow/red/white RCA plugs and needs a separate HDMI cable and suitable 5 V, 1 A USB power source; its USB power lead is included. It does not accept component video.
Missing an external power supply for an SCPH-700xx–790xx PS2 Slim? See our 8.5 V PS2 Slim power supply. Check the model; it is not for PS1, PS3, fat PS2 or SCPH-900xx Slim.
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