[cherrcherryball]

I know its possible but it either seems difficult or expensive.


What the reason is, is that I notice Scart cables degrade over usage so dont want to buy cables over and over and I notice my component cables never seem to degrade.

Not just that though buy I am a bit fed up with LCD so have gone back to CRT for a while whilst I either purchase a plasma or stay with CRT.

And also my DVD player only has HDMI, component and composite outputs so I have to use my old PS2 for movies but I would prefer my proper player.

I also am trying to connect my PC to my dvd recorder to record emulators wihtout slowdown so I guess I would need a VGA to scart cable but thought if I bought a VGA to component then a scart block that has component inputs that might work, problem is all the component blocks only have video inputs and not audio So its very hard to work out as my tv only has audio in for composite and S video!

[clemenzina]

I'm too dozy to follow your "problems", however:

I've got a Topfield PVR connected to my TV via S-video cable and L/R audio cable - good pic, good sound. I bought the cables from eBay.

I had bought a cable that had SCART at one end and RCA at the other but it would not work - I could get picture but no sound. The seller seemed to think I should have the SCART in the TV and the RCA in the Toppy, but it was the other way around (I don't have enough SCART sockets in my TV for all my gadgets ). He washed his hands of me But I'm quite happy with the S-video and audio cable connection.

As regards "to record emulators without slowdown" that whole paragraph is over my head, can't help at all.

clemenzina

[bxd]

Hi,

I'm not sure what makes you think that scart cables degrade over time but that shouldn't be the case.

Component cables are usually reasonably decent co-axial cables. In contrast, scart cables may have relatively poorer shielding on their thinner coaxial cores, particularly if you have ordinary scart leads.

I'm not quite sure what you're asking (or trying to do) but a few comments might help:

Firstly, rgb and component video signals aren't the same so it's unusual to have component inputs (on a tv) on a scart connector. There are a few crt tvs that can accept component on scart inputs (e.g some Loewe models I think) but most are rgb only.

Secondly, vga (which is progressive rgb + separate h and v sync signals) isn't the same as the interlaced rgb that your dvd-recorder can accept via it's scart inputs so that's not going to work. You'll need to get a video card that has an interlaced rgb output (I don't know if you can get these) or one that has a standard (composite) video or s-video output.

If you have a pc with an interlaced component video output (again I don't know if you can get these) then you could feed that signal to a component to rgb converter (called a transcoder) and feed that to your recorder.

On the audio side you should have stereo audio inputs on your recorder (or tv) that accompany the video inputs. Scart inputs have the audio included on the scart cable but any component video inputs (or s-video inputs) always have a stereo audio input associated with them.

Some displays (e.g. my Panasonic HD8 plasma) can accept a component signal on it's vga input. The cable allows that connection but doesn't convert component to vga. Similarly some vga sources (e.g. pc video cards (?) or vga outputs on video scalers) can be switched to provide a component output that can be fed into a display (e.g a projector) that (doesn't have a vga input) only has progressive component video inputs. In either case the cable isn't converting anything and you have to make sure that your source can provide a suitable output and that your display (or recorder) will accept that input.

Brian

[scooby do]

Only thing I can say is that scarts strain the PCB's and over time bad connections can occur as there is a lot of leverage available through a scart connection. But not really anything to do with the cable per say.