Scart leads/HDMI

[Gunk]

DVD players are dirt cheap -

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/336203519578?_skw=dvd+p[layer&itmmeta=01KCAANVXGWB4Q66TAJZKDK81X&hash=item4e474a965a:g:iAAAAeSwfHhosBSu&itmprp=enc:AQAKAAAA8FkggFvd1GGDu0w3yXCmi1etBWelVO+3Tr6Wx23LkNE2RjecSw9tRI1u5uxcI4ZIGeSI2i3wNGXO2h--jCXXdwdmT0UJBsqTwLeK/BE+06bl9THwUvtQ3/BrIH3iibkr2RYZ5vqoM9y5Qojwu9ZGxI6MW6yuNfxtD09d9pqmBXVg28BzC6Czl+T9GmGTz6JDyBhiZPpX0hkz7okjOGboNWkRyjYCHippSFUofCz3hwXB2aM/B0l4XK1p80nfnjoj362xO6CrRb8yLXZ3zPVn/GLJJHfOS8ZHc9hzC32Anh+fQmkwNuvWWxJEbPyRZ+UfnA==|tkp:Bk9SR4a_18riZg

Cheaper than faffing about with converter cables etc.

 

[presta]

Buy the cheapest one that is long enough as they’re all the same.

I had a brand new TV written off by a cheap scart lead off Amazon. A pair of pins were wired back to front.

If the cable is digital and it’ll be plugged in and then left, what benefit is there to anything other than the cheapest? The digital signal doesn’t degrade wirh cheap cables/connections like analogue does and the ports won’t wear if plugged and forgotten. I don’t believe there’s any benefit to a more expensive digital cable.

Scart isn't digital, I've seen visible crosstalk on a cheap scart lead without each core individually screened.

My old PVR/DVD combi had both scart and HDMI outputs, but I used scart because with HDMI the auto input selection on the TV took about ten times longer to switch when you press the play button.

 

[Pblakeney]

Since we are doing a cable thread diversion, I am reminded of this. Quite an eye opener.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD5aAd8Oy84&t=7s

 

[tyred]

DVD player is definitely a HDMI-free zone.

This thing is old enough to have a a coax RF output.

It irritates me to bin a piece of working equipment but I'll probably just replace it.

 

[Pblakeney]

DVD player is definitely a HDMI-free zone.

This thing is old enough to have a a coax RF output.

It irritates me to bin a piece of working equipment but I'll probably just replace it.

Charity shop donation rather than the bin?

 

[the_mikey]

I’d be surprised if the old dvd player does not have hdmi as dvd players are digital and scart is analogue? I would imagine it has both. I’d certainly m check this out before buying a new dvd player. If it does an hdmi cable is cheap as chips. Buy the cheapest one that is long enough as they’re all the same.

The last DVD player I bought was actually a Sony BluRay disc player, it had HDMI, but I gave it to my parents years ago.