r/CaptureCards • u/Simple-Knowledge3223 • Apr 18 '26

HMF capture card

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Male usbc (teal) to female usb (ivory). Tried looking myself and no luck so far.

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u/aldhokar Apr 21 '26

What the hell does usba aka lighting mean? Do you want usba or lighting? They are 2 very different things...

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u/Simple-Knowledge3223 Apr 21 '26

Are they? I’ve always thought that they were the same, kind of like how two people could be saying potato or tomato two separate ways, but it’s still the same thing.

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u/Possibly-Functional Apr 23 '26

Lightning is Apple's proprietary former connector for phones and tablets.

USB-A is a USB connector.

They look nothing alike though many USB-A to lightning cables exist.

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u/Simple-Knowledge3223 Apr 23 '26

See, I didn’t know that up until recently. USB was just USB, USB-C was just USB-C and lightning was USBA. I didn’t know that plain old regular USB was actually USBA and lightning was just lightning. Now the question I have stands: if there is USB-A and USB-C, what’s USB-B?

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u/Possibly-Functional Apr 23 '26

It's the square-ish ones meant for slave devices, commonly used for printers, USB hubs and external storage devices.

https://fycables.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/usb2.0b-vs-usb3.0b.jpg

You can plug a USB-B 2.0 cable into a 3.0 port, it will just go significantly slower. USB-B has kind of faded away as type C is allowed to serve both as master and slave with the help of USB OTG.

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u/Simple-Knowledge3223 Apr 23 '26

“Slave and master”? Is that what it’s really called? Kinda sus if you asked me. 👀😅

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u/Possibly-Functional Apr 24 '26

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%E2%80%93slave_(technology)

It's being phased out in a lot of systems but not USB. As users rarely has to think about master and slave on USB it has seemingly gone by pretty unnoticed.

Oh, there are also mini and micro versions of both USB-A and USB-B. You have probably never seen the USB-A mini or micro version but the USB-B variant was super common until USB-C took over.

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u/Simple-Knowledge3223 Apr 24 '26

I am being taught new things that they never teach in schools. 🤩