Scart to componant cable???

[james_19742000]

Hi all,

I am soon upgrading all my AV bits, I am buying a new DVd player and also an AV receiver, my plan is to run componant from DVd to componant input on the Receiver, then also a cable from my Sky box to the receiver, then one cable from receiver to the plasma, my question is can I get a scart to componant cable for my Sky to componant input on the receiver? That way I can then just run one componant cable from the componant out put on the receiver to the componant input on my plasma? So really I need to know can I get a scart to componant cable that will do what I want it to do please? If so does anyone know where I can get one from please? Any help would be appreciated as I need to get all this gear ordered soon.

My equipment is:
Hitachi 42PD5200 plasma
Planning on buying Yamaha Rx-V657 AV receiver and Yamaha DVDS557 DVD player, also a cheap VCR which will just be connected to the receiver with a cheap set of leads.

Hopefully, by having all of this equipment this will enable me to run all my cables into the Rx-V657 receiver and then just one componant cable to my plasma, not worried about a sound cable to the plasam as teh Yamaha will handle sound through the speakers rigged up to that?

Does all this sound feasable and what componant cables and scart to componant cable would you guys recommend???

Thanks for your help.

James

 

[Joe Fernand]

james_19742000

Your SKY box Outputs RGB or Composite video on SCART - whilst RGB and YUV 'Component' are very similar quality they are not interchangeable.

JS Technology where the first company to spot this potential 'issue' for lots of folk and have been producing an RGB2YUV converter for the past few years.

A JS Technology RGB2YUV converter plus a SCART Input cable and 3RCA 'Component' Output cable is required to connect your Digibox with your AV Receiver via YUV 'Component'.

See http://www.js-technology.com/produc...id=36&osCsid=c07d15eafcbce557226bf721609a8bf7

Best regards

Joe

 

[james_19742000]

Thanks for that, all starting to look a bit expensive for what I want to do isnt it! Mkes me wonder whether it is just best running my plain profigold scart as it is at the moment into the plasma with a HDMI to DVI lead for the DVd direct, and then put all the audio cables into the receiver and let that handle just teh audio side???

All food for thought.

James

 

[james_19742000]

Or the other thing, does anyone know if any AV receivers have a Scart imput on them?? Just a thought but I doubt it?

Or I have seen this, is this any good, would this do what I need? http://www.futureshop.co.uk/profigold-pgv7405-scart-to-rgb-synch-cable-5m-p-214.html

James

 

[MarkE19]

IMO the only reasons to put the video through an AV receiver is that you don't have enough inputs on the screen or you are too lazy to change inputs on both AV & screen
DVI/HDMI direct to the plasma 'should' give a better picture than YUV component.
I remeber it being mentioned a while back that there was a receiver that had scart inputs, but I'm not sure if that is still around or even how good it was. I know that the Arcam AVR250 or AVR300 AV receivers can be set to switch RGBcvS (as output over scart) by assigning a composite input to a component input to give the 4 phono connections required for an RGBcvS signal. You would use cables like the one you linked to for connecting any STB that has an RGB scart output. But going this route you would only be able to use the receiver for switching RGB inputs and not component as it can only be set to work with one signal type at a time. A VCR would not work as it will only output a composite signal (or S-Video if an SVHS VCR).

So I think your best option will be to put all video signals direct to your plasma as long as you have enough inputs.

Mark.

 

[james_19742000]

Yes I am with you Mark, its just that I want to save on how many cables go to the Plasma really, I was hoping to get away with just being able to pop all the cables into a receiver and then just have one set of cables go to the plasma, but I see what you are saying and it is looking that way that I will probably go, my plasma has a DVi input 2 x component and an RGB scart input, as well as S-video, so preume best way will be.

DVD to Plasma DVI input with a HDMi to DVI cable for probably a Denon 1920
Sky box straight to plasma scart input with RGB scart
VCr straight to plasma via s-video or composite.

Then digital optical cables from DVD to receiver and Sky to receiver, and then audio cables to video input on receiver from the VCR?

Does that sound right, then change to AV4 (scart) when watching Sky, switch to RGB1 for DVd via DVI and then AV2 or 3 when watching from the VCR with the s-video, and switch the receiver to the relelvant output mode according to the TV?

Does all that sound right??

Thanks for the help.

James

 

[MarkE19]

That all sounds fine, except for the VCR. A standard VHS VCR will only output a composite signal, and not an S-Video signal. If you connect a scart to S-Video lead to the plasma then the VCR will only have a black & white picture. An S-Video lead will only work with an SVHS VCR. But then if you are going to buy a VCR you can get a JVC SVHS VCR from under £100 now.

Mark.

 

[james_19742000]

Right OK, so look out for an SVHS VCR and all will be fine, excellent, many thanks for all the help.

Much appreciated.

James