Timeline for Why not SCART for early color monitors
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| Jun 18 at 19:01 | comment | added | Peter Green | For example the Acorn AKF11 and AKF12 monitors (which IIRC are rebadged Phillips personal monitors) have an 8 pin din connector for TTL RGB (BBC micro) and a Scart connector for Analogue RGB (Archimedes) | |
| Jun 18 at 18:55 | comment | added | Peter Green | We used a BBC micro at home over RGB scart, which gave a better picture than RF. At school I remember the BBC micros used DIN to DIN cables to carry TTL RGB to their monitors, but the Archimedes used D-Sub to SCART cables. | |
| Nov 14, 2022 at 19:21 | comment | added | gidds | Was SCART popular in the UK? My (very patchy) memory suggests that it wasn't much of ‘a thing’ before the '90s, and even then I don't recall it being used much for home computers — only RF to TVs, or dedicated monitor ports (and later VGA and DVI &c). | |
| Nov 12, 2022 at 14:47 | comment | added | Tommy | @Jules though I'm pretty sure the SAM's SCART connector was wired in a non-standard fashion? I have the recollection of needing to buy a custom cable. | |
| Dec 10, 2018 at 14:59 | answer | added | Kaz | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jun 24, 2018 at 22:50 | comment | added | Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen | Note that RGB-SCART was a lot better than plain SCART. | |
| Jun 23, 2018 at 16:31 | comment | added | Jules | It's worth noting that there were some computers that used SCART as their primary connection method; the SAM Coupe is the one I had experience with at the time, but I'm pretty sure there were others, too. | |
| Jun 23, 2018 at 8:22 | vote | accept | rwallace | ||
| Jun 23, 2018 at 8:21 | comment | added | dirkt | People made SCART cables e.g. for the Apple II GS, so I think technical problems can be ruled out. | |
| Jun 23, 2018 at 8:03 | answer | added | Raffzahn | timeline score: 15 | |
| Jun 23, 2018 at 7:19 | comment | added | snips-n-snails | SCART was popular in Europe. Are you asking why it wasn't popular in the USA? Related: retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/5809/… | |
| Jun 23, 2018 at 6:51 | answer | added | aybe | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jun 23, 2018 at 4:58 | history | asked | rwallace | CC BY-SA 4.0 |