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.

 

[Dadam]

Currently watching Taggart on a digital CRT.
Through a satellite box via scart lead.

CRTs are fundamentally analogue in function. Yours just has a either built in DAC for a digital input, or a tuner for digital TV, or possibly both. It's not converting the analogue scart signal to a digital bit stream only to have to convert that back to analogue to control the electron beam.

 

[albion]

I suspect all flat TVs with an analogue tuner will have the 3 vo-ax like sockets for analogue.
My 32" LED TV even has scart. However most manufacturers used the cheaper to make round composite sockets.
With the closure of analogue mast transmissions, composite on TVs are getting phased out to.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Charity shop donation rather than the bin?

They don’t tend to take electrical these days

 

[Dadam]

They don’t tend to take electrical these days

Some do. BHF for instance

 

[tyred]

I suspect all flat TVs with an analogue tuner will have the 3 vo-ax like sockets for analogue.
My 32" LED TV even has scart. However most manufacturers used the cheaper to make round composite sockets.
With the closure of analogue mast transmissions, composite on TVs are getting phased out to.

The new TV (LG) has neither Scart nor Composite, hence the problem with the old DVD player.

 

[albion]

No analogue tuner I suspect too.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

The new TV (LG) has neither Scart nor Composite, hence the problem with the old DVD player.

I had that problem once

I researched rewiring a proper plug for it into a Scart female socket and as far as I remember it seemed possible

It was the sort of thing I did at work at the time - I know I was a programmer but I fiddled with things I wasn;t suppoed to at time

I wouldn't try it on my say so but it seemed feasible at the time

 

[albion]

I wouldn't try it on my say so but it seemed feasible at the time

Scart carried composite/ s-video. Both analogue too.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I wouldn't try it

Try what exactly? You’ve been vague as to what exactly you researched doing.