SCART

[duodreamer]

I have heard a little about scart and how it was used on Arcade displays but I would like to know more and are there any tvs in the us that support scart?

[Turbo D]

I believe that there are zero in the U.S. Scart is a UK thing for there special t.v.s .

[chaoticjelly]

SCART is used in the UK, Europe and parts of Australia etc.

Its basically a 21 pin connector which provides lots of AV functionality in the one connector. So you get RGB, Composite Video, Stereo Audio etc.

An arcade monitor uses RGB, all televisions use RGB, the cathode ray tube in a TV fires electrons at the phosphor coated screen and the combination of Red, Green and Blue determines the colour of the pixel on the screen.

An arcade PCB directly outputs RGB video, so that just goes straight to the monitor. SCART is not used.

However you can wire up a PCB to a SCART plug and use on a television with a SCART socket.

In the US you won't find televisions with SCART sockets as for some reason they decided composite and s-video were good enough.

You can find an old Commodore monitor that has analogue RGB via a 9 pin D socket, or perhaps a round DIN connector. Then its a case of wiring up a custom cable from the arcade PCB to Commodore monitor.. or find an imported television..

[Digi.k]

The scart or A/V plug is the one in the middle.. you need to make sure your tv has input for that.. most UK/EU tv's built around the last decade support it.

Below pic is through composite connection (the red, white and yellow connecters)


Below pic is through scart connecter

[rolins]

I have heard a little about scart and how it was used on Arcade displays but I would like to know more and are there any tvs in the us that support scart?

No TVs in the US have scart connectors, but you can find 15khz RGB monitors in the US. The commodore monitor that was mention is good one, but the display is tiny by my standards. If you can grab an old Sony PVM or NEC Mulitsync you can output RGB in 15khz which exactly what you want for your consoles. You just need some homemade cables preferably 4xBNC for RGB composite sync.