SCART Leads

owey

rule of thumb is, save 10% of your budget for your cables, which could work out to be alot of money.

emujuice

just had a fiddle around with my set up last night, as i had a annoying line running down the middle of the picture. i basicaly found that one of my scart leads is decent enough and the other 2 are rubbish and create the weird linie. i don't know where any of them are from, so i can't get the better one again. i don't have a lot of dough, but having paid £800 for my widescreen 32 inch crt a couple of years ago I do want the best from it. i have cheapy digibox and a cheap dvd player that i want to hook up. anyone got a recomendation for a price i should pay for scart leads or recomend any. i might have paid a lot for the telly, but i don't think i can bring myself to shell out much more now.
the tv has lots of inputs - RGB scart, composite, s-video, the 3 scart sockets take various inputs as well. is the best bet just to get 2 RGB scarts? i have the dvd sound going via an optical lead...
thanks for the help

brummybloke

sounds like you got yourself either a sony or a panasonic ( i bet it was a sony)

as crt gives a better picture than either plasma and lcd ( although i still want a huge lcd tv) you should be able to get away with some of the slightly cheaper mid range ones. i got some cambridge audio gold plated ones from richer sounds a year or 2 ago for £8.99 each, they are just soooooo much better than then bog standards ( the cambridge audio were rgb).

as you have a biggish screen ( same size as mine) you still require semi decent scarts as it is alot more noticable on larger screens.

this one should do the trick

http://ws4.richersounds.com/showproduct.php?cda=showproduct&pid=CAMB-SCART-SCAR




however if you really wish to treat yourself get

http://ws4.richersounds.com/showproduct.php?cda=showproduct&pid=CAMB-SC-SC-1M-PREM

not the best ones by any stretch but alot better than the cheap ones.

POLDO_DONK

emujuice wrote-

just had a fiddle around with my set up last night, as i had a annoying line running down the middle of the picture. i basicaly found that one of my scart leads is decent enough and the other 2 are rubbish and create the weird linie.

Scart is the French contribution to world of A/V interconnects :rolleyes: and I feel inherently flawed. It’s too easy to get this kind of fault due to poor screening, grounding etc. Hence the need for reasonable quality leads. I’m sure brummyblokes recommendations are fine.

Although component connection provides no better signal quality than RGB scart, because the RCA connectors are more robust and consist of separate connections, I would always recommend using component if you have the choice of that or RGB scart. Not forgetting that progressive scan is usually only enabled via component on many devices

Hopefully, with the advent of digital TV, and flat panel screens like Plasma, DLP etc it won’t be too many years before every digital video device (DVD, Freeview, Sky etc) incorporates a 'digital video out' connection i.e. HDMI to do away with unnecessary digital to analogue picture conversion

brummybloke wrote-

as crt gives a better picture than either plasma and lcd ( although i still want a huge lcd tv)

I agree about CRT. However if you want CRT quality and a flat panel, if you can wait a year or two, SED is on it’s way…..

bigglesinc wrote-

This is good advise.

Thanks!

Poldo

emujuice

brummybloke wrote:

sounds like you got yourself either a sony or a panasonic ( i bet it was a sony)

as crt gives a better picture than either plasma and lcd ( although i still want a huge lcd tv) you should be able to get away with some of the slightly cheaper mid range ones. i got some cambridge audio gold plated ones from richer sounds a year or 2 ago for £8.99 each, they are just soooooo much better than then bog standards ( the cambridge audio were rgb).

as you have a biggish screen ( same size as mine) you still require semi decent scarts as it is alot more noticable on larger screens.

this one should do the trick

http://ws4.richersounds.com/showproduct.php?cda=showproduct&pid=CAMB-SCART-SCAR




however if you really wish to treat yourself get

http://ws4.richersounds.com/showproduct.php?cda=showproduct&pid=CAMB-SC-SC-1M-PREM

not the best ones by any stretch but alot better than the cheap ones.

thanks. i have a panasonic
it's a great telly, when it's wired up properly!

i'll have a look at the richer sounds ones.
it doees have the phone-type composite input and s-video plugs, but only on tehh front, which looks messy. think i'll get scarts for neatness.

cheers guys

owey

Try a Thor scart lead very solid lead, have a look at https://www.tvcables.com .

Toxteth_OGrady

it doees have the phone-type composite input and s-video plugs

Don't confuse composite with component.

Composite uses a single phono/RCA connector and is a single mixed analog video signal. It is by far the poorest quality of vdeo signal connection.

Component uses 3 different video signals, similar to RGB but not quite, and gives the highest quality signal.

:cool:

TOG

POLDO_DONK

Toxteth_OGrady wrote-

Component uses 3 different video signals, similar to RGB but not quite, and gives the highest quality signal.

Poldo Donk wrote-

Although component connection provides no better signal quality than RGB scart, because the RCA connectors are more robust and consist of separate connections, I would always recommend using component if you have the choice of that or RGB scart. Not forgetting that progressive scan is usually only enabled via component on many devices

Just to put a little meat on the bones (but trying to keep it simple!) :rolleyes:

Essentially RGB scart and component try to do the same thing in different ways. RGB is pretty self- explanatory. Component (and there are different forms of component!) works by carrying three signals but NOT RGB, Firstly there is the Y component which carries all the Black and White information and then there are the Pb and Pr components which carry what are known as colour difference signals. These basically ‘reconstruct’ the colour elements, which by it’s nature RGB carries separately. However RGB is very bandwidth hungry and has not always been a practical proposition, hence the widespread adoption of component. Video information is stored on a DVD in component form. So although RGB is theoretically better than component in practice RGB is limited by the quality of component to RGB conversion within the DVD player and the poor nature of the scart connection.

As I said before, given the choice of RGB scart and component, I would always choose component.

A useful basic introduction summary on different video interfaces can be found here-

http://www.interfacebus.com/Design_Connector_Video.html

Poldo

PS. Toxteth, are you still world champion for the world's stickiest bogey?

Toxteth_OGrady

Yep

:cool:

TOG

POLDO_DONK

Well done! :j But I won't shake your hand if you don't mind ...

Poldo