Newsgroups: alt.audio.equipment,rec.audio.tech,sci.electronics,sci.electronics.repair Subject: Re: shielding rca/component video References:<[email protected]> "J" writes: > I've only seen scart in pictures. I'm in the US and none of our gear has > it. I'd love to, but it looks like my idea is cost-prohibitive. > > 4 wheels, right - point taken. SCART connector and cables are designed to carry video signal and stereo audio. There are actually wires for audio and video (composite video) for both directions. And there are also some unidirectional control signals and RGB video lines for one direction. The idea of SCART is good. The real life implementation of it leaves something to be desired. The connector used for SCART is not mechanically or electrically very good (connector gets easily loose when cable is moved and then pins are not making good contact). Then some equipment could have designed the use of some control signals better in their equipment... And audio/video connections were pretty clear (composite video and RGB well specified, nicely degrading to use composite video if one of the equipment on one end did not support RGB) until someone later added S-video support for some SCART connectors on some equipment... not amy equipment support those... anyway the way S-video was added to scart has caused many people to wonder why they get blac&white video where they expect to get color video... -- Tomi Engdahl (http://www.iki.fi/then/) Take a look at my electronics web links and documents at http://www.epanorama.net/