Newsgroups: alt.audio.equipment,rec.audio.tech,sci.electronics,sci.electronics.repair
Subject: Re: shielding rca/component video
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"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/)
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