Re: RGB to Component video converter (SCART)

mdj wrote:
On May 7, 8:27 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@xxxxxxx> wrote:


OK, my apologies...I thought all those RCA jacks were *outputs*!
After all, it does say RGB *to* component, and SCART is RGB, right?

And it also says:

* BRAND NEW; Scart (male) to Component (female) Adapter.
* For 'RGB' scart video signal to high quality 'Y/U/V' component video
signal.
* Signal output from DVD players, Freeview, Sky or Sky+ set-top boxes
to Component Video.

That sure *sounds* like it accepts an RGB signal on the SCART side
and outputs a Component signal on the RCA side.


It could be either :-)

Most SCART equipped televisions/displays have a pair of connectors -
one is convention SCART RGB, the other accepts component or s-video.

Great. So SCART is synonymous with "a standard connector with any
signals we feel like connecting to it". ;-(

I thought that SCART was also an *output* connector for AV equipment,
and that it would supply RGB that this box would convert to component.
(And with all those pins, not supplying a little power seems like an
oversight...)


It is - SCART outputs usually only supply RGB however. At least down
here, it's pretty common for a DVD player to have SCART, YUV, s-video,
and composite outputs.

Good--so it *is* used for both inputs and outputs.

Does anyone know what this $5 thing actually does?
(I'm pretty sure that the $60 box does what I described.)


Now I'm confused :-) It's certainly common to use such a thing to
drive RGB SCART TV's from sources that only support component video.
Potentially, it's just a simple conversion box that routes the three-
coax RGB *or* Component signal to the correct SCART pins. This lets
you use either RGB or Component outputs on source equipment that only
have the three RCA connectors.

A converter that allows one to "drive RGB SCART TV's from sources that
only support component video" should be called a "component to RGB
SCART" converter.

Converters should *always* be named in the direction of the signal they
accept as input "to" the signal they produce as output. (This is a
common screw-up in converter nomenclature.)

Since it seems powerless, this would be the most logical explanation,
but then, it's equally valid to plug such a thing into a SCART source
device to export RCA, but I've not seen that done.

Of course as I mentioned the power connector may simply be
invisible...

Right--so the additional description I quoted later in the thread
is relevant to disambiguating these possibilities (though it still
leaves the power source unnamed).

-michael

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