Re: Color LCD monitor with RCA composite inputs?

[Roger Johnstone <rojaws@es.co.nz>]

In <b7oiu3$2eab$1@merope.saaf.se> Paul Schlyter wrote:
> 
> Any TV with a SCART connector has composite video inputs.  And 
> virtually all modern TV sets have SCART connectors -- it's a long long 
> time since I saw one which did not have such a connector (OK, I 
> actually have one at home -- but it's 23 years old!).
>

SCART connectors are the standard in Europe, but in other parts of the 
world they're quite rare. I've even seen one TV which had a modular 
panel on the back which could hold either a SCART socket or a pair of 
RCA sockets. In Europe it would have been sold with the SCART socket but 
here it was sold with the RCA sockets.

Something I find ridiculous is that DVD players now have 'component 
video' outputs, which use three RCA connectors for the video (luminance 
and two chrominance), to try and improve the video output quality, yet 
the best possible quality is achieved by using an RGB (red, green, blue 
video) connection. RGB has been supported by SCART-connected equipment 
for many years.

We tend to get a mix of video equipment in New Zealand. My new DVD 
player doesn't have a SCART connector but my TV does, while a friend's 
DVD player does but his TV doesn't!


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Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand

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