Comments on: Old-Style TV Connectors

By: kindle ebooks

kindle ebooks — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 04:23:51 +0000

I like what you guys are up too. Such smart work and reporting! Carry on the excellent works guys I have incorporated you guys to my blogroll. I think it’ll improve the value of my web site

By: SpongBo

SpongBo — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:36:19 +0000

Microsoft have a Media Centre page that covers connectors, but they don’t include SCART at all! Must be dead. I concede!

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/mediacenter/using/setup/cables.mspx

By: SpongBo

SpongBo — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:34:52 +0000

Hey Mark,

Good point; audio isn’t really covered here, and SCART and component are theoretically about as good as each other in the video stakes.

So, BYO audio connector!

By: mark

mark — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 02:41:40 +0000

I disagree in the comment that scart is the optimal cable as scart only supports analogue audio signals and hence cannot decode dts or dolby digital sound. The ideal combination to use is a digital audio source ie optical or coaxial for your sound and component for your video source. Ultimately now you have better options such as HDMI which is digital for video and audio in the one cable (the drawback that this allows copy protection to what is being transmitted).

By: Spongbo

Spongbo — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 03:08:00 +0000

Yeah – the HD pack means that games have the option of running in higher resolutions than they otherwise might (I want to say 720p here, but I can’t be arsed looking it up, so that might just be conjecture, your honour).

By: Shifty

Shifty — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 18:54:34 +0000

I bought a 3rd party HD pack at EB and it works OK on my brothers’ Aussie plasma screen in HD, but it is not so good for dvd playback as there are noticeable green/pink vertical bands across the screen.

So perhaps that is the incompatibility to which you referred. It is great for games though, really makes a difference.