Timeline for Why not SCART for early color monitors
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| Jul 29 at 9:52 | comment | added | Patrick Schlüter | SCART was never limited to 15KHz as at the time of definition France still had high-defnition BW norm at 819 lines, which had a 20 KHz line frequency. That norm only disappeared in 1983 when SCART was already 3 years a mandatory equipment in France. SCART made pay TV and VCR very easy to implement. | |
| Nov 12, 2022 at 14:15 | history | edited | user3840170 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 23, 2018 at 8:21 | comment | added | Raffzahn | @rwallace Atari sold theri ST line in some places with a SARCT cable. ST mid Res is running at 15.75 kHz. We often used an ST at a large TV for gaming - especially nice since the TV also supported 60Hz. And SCART can do even more. At home I use a HDMI to RGB converter to view Blue Ray on an early HD-Plasma without HDMI. Analogue connection is via SCART and, while maybe stretching the specs a bit, the picture (HD 1920x1080) is still great. | |
| Jun 23, 2018 at 8:21 | comment | added | aybe | US loved 'never twice the same colors' through RF in fact :) | |
| Jun 23, 2018 at 8:18 | history | edited | dirkt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 23, 2018 at 8:08 | comment | added | Raffzahn | For one, SCART does scale beyond 15 kHz, but more important it wasn'T so much a French than a European thing. Sure, it was initiated (and forced) by France, but it soon became a rather great interface all over Europ (and in fact even Japan). Just the US was left out :)) | |
| Jun 23, 2018 at 8:05 | history | edited | aybe | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 23, 2018 at 7:58 | comment | added | aybe | Not an expert in electronics here but I suppose that if the monitor does 15 Khz and supports the same (non-separated?) synchronization, I see no reason why it wouldn't work. But please, get an expert advice first to avoid the risk of hurting your monitor, if at all ! | |
| Jun 23, 2018 at 7:50 | history | edited | aybe | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 23, 2018 at 7:42 | comment | added | rwallace | Good points, thanks! But early personal computer monitors like the 5153 had the same 15 kHz scan rate as NTSC, and even for monitors with higher frequency, surely the SCART connectors and cable would still work fine? | |
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| Jun 23, 2018 at 7:31 | history | edited | tofro | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 23, 2018 at 7:08 | history | edited | aybe | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 23, 2018 at 6:51 | history | answered | aybe | CC BY-SA 4.0 |