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SCART was an absolute pain in the backside. Technical merit aside, its sockets and cables absolutely defied any attempts to line up and insert by touch. Want
by Nursie 2y ago
SCART was an absolute pain in the backside.
Technical merit aside, its sockets and cables absolutely defied any attempts to line up and insert by touch.
Want to plug in a new device? You'd damn well better move the tv out because otherwise you're going to spend at least ten minutes with your arm round the back of the tv, fruitlessly wiggling the plug around the general area of the socket, and then you're going to pull the tv out and look anyway. Even if you were exactly on target with the cable, you weren't getting it in without sub-millimetre precision and there was no real way to tell when to apply the force.
They were such a bad design.
- nottorp 2y agoFrankly I don't see how HDMI is much better. You need to rotate it 180 degrees at least thrice, just like USB-A.
- pezezin 2y agoSCART is the worst connector ever designed, that is true. Not only it is difficult to plug in, it is also super flimsy and it will unplug if you glance at it wrong. But on the other hand it provided the best possible picture quality (on consumer TVs) until the arrival of HDMI. Compared to composite video, it was marvellous.
- deaddodo 2y ago> But on the other hand it provided the best possible picture quality (on consumer TVs) until the arrival of HDMI Consumer televisions had component for a decade+ before HDMI.
- rasz 2y agoOh wow whole decade! Meanwhile SCART was standardized in seventies.
- deaddodo 2y agoThat explains why it was inferior to all of the other standards specialized in the plethora of fields it attempted to handle with mediocrity.
- rasz 2y agoTell me more about inferiority of pure RGB goodness :)
- deaddodo 2y agoI don't need to, the tech specs speak for themselves. Maybe try reading/comparing them. This isn't reddit, take your try-hard trolling elsewhere.
- rasz 2y agoBut its you who is trolling. CRT gun is driven with RGB signals, every TV has to convert cvbs/svideo/component input to RGB anyway. Allowing raw RGB input simply skips unnecessary conversions.
- pezezin 2y agoYou are so right. There is a reason why PC and arcade monitors work in RGB. But in addition to that, there is no cross-talk, no dot crawl, and all the other weird artifacts of composite video. Also, no chroma modulation means that it was much easier for TVs to support both 50 and 60 Hz. I only ever had a GameCube, but being able to play in RGB at 60 Hz was amazing. At least in Europe, many old consoles* provided native RGBS output, and with the proper SCART cable the video quality was awesome. Nowadays, people in the retro gaming community go crazy with PVM/BVM and other fancy professional monitors with RGB input, but the French already had it figured out in the '70s! * anything from Sega, Nintendo SNES~WiiU, the NeoGeo, Sony PSX~PS3.