scart

-- Trevor Wilson

The poms seem to use it but I was having a talk with a group of friends and no one had heard of scart.

You must have young friends lol

no,old non technical farts

It is still used on virtually every analogue video device on sale in Europe. Prick of a design, flimsy and no way of locking it in, particularly bad if you have a fat, heavy cable attached.

I still see it on some items, even a few set top boxes, Becoming a lot less common though. Have yet to see a SCART being used though, everyone just uses the RCA sockets.

I remember some of the TEAC TV's a decade or so back would use this as the only form of AV input, and these sets wouldn't stay on the AV "channel" when you turned the power on/off.

IIRC you had to pull one pin to a 3 or 12 v ? voltage in order to externally force AV mode.

For that matter, does anything use DIN plugs anymore - like were on most HIFI gear in the 70's ? :)

It is still used on European TVs. My new Loewe Art still has a Scart connector and I use it. The Loewe apparently uses it to convey control information to compatible attached devices. We currently have a Scart connector to the Loewe video recorder and the cable TV box

I seem to remember that you had to short 2 pins on the interface, I had a French Tompson TV that I used as a monitor on my first home computer, an Atari. I had a switch connected into the SCART connector that switched between the TV and the computer.

Strangely enough I also had an Akai TV that had a SCART connector, maybe that model was also sold in Europe.

Haven't seen them for years except in the bins at Jaycar.