kevin242 Posted June 14, 2004 Share Posted June 14, 2004 I have a new graphics card with s-video out and I have a 27 inch tv in the same room as my new pc, but it is an older floor model type. It has a nice picture and would be awesome for me to fire up pc games and emu's on the computer and play them on the TV, but I was surprised to when I looked in back of the TV and found a couple sets of RCA video in's but no SVIDEO!!!! Like an idiot I spent 25 bucks for a 12foot svideo cord that would reach the TV already and I really want to use the TV ssoo is there an adapter SVIDEO<-->RCA? thanks for your help kvn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Han Posted June 14, 2004 Share Posted June 14, 2004 I assume that your tv has at least one SCART connector? You can buy a SCART adapter with S-VHS input, and just plug in the cable from you card... Have a look at attached picture Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsukasa Posted June 14, 2004 Share Posted June 14, 2004 If it doesn't have a scart, which I assume it doesn't since he's in connecticut, there is a simple design that will solve your problem here I've tested it and it works fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Han Posted June 14, 2004 Share Posted June 14, 2004 Isn't the SCART connector used in USA? Or is it just forbidden in connecticut ... Just curious Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsukasa Posted June 14, 2004 Share Posted June 14, 2004 Hmmm, I thought scart was a europe only thing..... I've never seen a scart connector in person. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin242 Posted June 14, 2004 Author Share Posted June 14, 2004 nice link. it looks like a could make one, but according to that article the output will be less than stellar. I am thinking about trying it, but I would think (especially after reading that article) there must be cheap connector that translates rca<--->svid HAN: no the SCART interface is not used in the USA at all. kvn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsukasa Posted June 14, 2004 Share Posted June 14, 2004 It's not perfect, but I play games using it without problems. (think 2600 rf quality when using a direct connector ie. not the switchbox) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Han Posted June 14, 2004 Share Posted June 14, 2004 Hmmm, I thought scart was a europe only thing.....I've never seen a scart connector in person. Ok, it probably is then.. come to think of it I have heard it being called a Euroscart as well... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whisper Posted June 15, 2004 Share Posted June 15, 2004 SCART is Europe-only and I like it! 21 different pins in just one plug. Audio, RGB, S-video, Composite, automatic signal switch and lots more. I made my own Mono + Composite RCA to SCART cable for my ever going to be postponed modding project It works great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsukasa Posted June 15, 2004 Share Posted June 15, 2004 It sucks that scart is europe only, cuz then it would be easy to connect a computer to a tv. Those things have everything don't they? RGB, S-Video, Composite video, Component video, stereo audio.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin242 Posted June 15, 2004 Author Share Posted June 15, 2004 scart sounds like it's great for Europeans, but since I am in the USA I dont give a rats ass about it There must be a cheap little converter that takes an SVIDEO input and outputs RCA? kvn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsukasa Posted June 15, 2004 Share Posted June 15, 2004 Yeah, there is. I have one that came with my video card. Here's a pic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin242 Posted June 15, 2004 Author Share Posted June 15, 2004 yea yea yea that's what I need, where can I get one of those? kvn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin242 Posted June 15, 2004 Author Share Posted June 15, 2004 I know I am answering my own question, but I want to update this thread incase anyone comes across it with a similar problem. I found two converters one at Radio Shack (which costs 20 bucks) and this one which is only 10 dollars and acomplishes everything in little package: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRetroGamer Posted June 15, 2004 Share Posted June 15, 2004 You can find similar items on eBay for much less, even when you factor in shipping! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susuwatari Posted June 17, 2004 Share Posted June 17, 2004 SCART have been used in USA, just about as common as CIB Quadran. I have a SNES store display and it uses SCART cable to connect the SNES to the RGB converter board, which then goes to the RGB monitor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsukasa Posted June 17, 2004 Share Posted June 17, 2004 The world would be a better place if everything used SCART and all tv's ran at 60hz. It's a perfect compromise between the two systems. The French would probably be pretty pissed off though cuz they couldn't have their System Essentially Contrary to the American Method, or SECAM for short. The French can seem to win anything. (including wars) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tearex Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 It sucks that scart is europe only, cuz then it would be easy to connect a computer to a tv. Those things have everything don't they? RGB, S-Video, Composite video, Component video, stereo audio.... No component video unfortunately, and S-Video was only added as an afterthought so doesn't work with all TVs... but yes it is nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tearex Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 The world would be a better place if everything used SCART and all tv's ran at 60hz. It's a perfect compromise between the two systems. The French would probably be pretty pissed off though cuz they couldn't have their System Essentially Contrary to the American Method, or SECAM for short. The French can seem to win anything. (including wars) SECAM is being phased out in favor of PAL (for many years now, but it's a slow business getting completely rid of it...) and 60hz is not that cool since it also means only 480 visible lines and ugly telecine for 24fps movies... whereas 50hz gives you 576 lines, but, movies have to be put on steroids by playing them 4% faster than they're inteded to be played. Nothing is really that ideal a solution I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Han Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 PAL, SECAM, NTSC all suck as far as I am concerned ... Miserable colour representation, low resolution and annoying interlaced picture.... It’s time for a new video standard pls… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tearex Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 PAL, SECAM, NTSC all suck as far as I am concerned ... Miserable colour representation, low resolution and annoying interlaced picture.... It’s time for a new video standard pls… True enough. Here in Germany we're going digital for real now, in some areas (Berlin and Cologne) analog broadcasting has been completely switched off... of course while this means better colors and better horiz resolution, vert resolution and interlacedness are here to stay for the moment. HDTV is still a long ways off... and I guess until some *good* codec like H.264 is actually mature enough for widespread deployment and has *cheap-ass chips* implementing it, HDTV won't become the standard broadcasting method. MPEG-2 HDTV simply takes up too much of that precious bandwidth. But with a good codec you could broadcast everything in HDTV and then the receiver box would just downscale it for pre-HDTV TVs. Oh well the bigger the haul the more slowly it has to move, and TV technology as such is a *very* big haul with probably close to a billion sets in use worldwide... so things will always move sloooowly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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