Component video to scart?

[Alex]

Can you do this? I found this:

https://sslrelay.com/s75376715.onean...dex.shopscript

But I wasn't sure if it was only scart out...

I have a DVD player with component video out, and a component video cable that reaches the TV, but no component inputs. Any suggestions as to how to connect this up, rather than buy a composite cable or something? (the TV is about 8m away from the DVD)

[Howard]

Edit: Scratch that. I guess you can. Lol.

Anyway if you do get a Component to SCART lead you won't notice any quality improvement, so there isn't much point.

Surely your TV has a SCART input and your DVD a SCART output?

[Rave]

Can't see the product, it seems the session timed out. Anyway, there's no point at all going from component to scart for picture quality reasons, scart sockets are only wired for RGB and/or S-Video. Any adaptor to convert component to scart probably just downmixes the signal to S-Video.

Rich :¬)

[Bindibadgi]

I distinctly remember SCART has RGB connectors within the 20 or so pins, you wont get sound (obviously) like a SCART to SCART cable would give you, but youd still keep the quality. I know maplins do a S video and Audio to SCART adapter, but im not sure about component. You could wire one up yourself if you got a SCART pin ID somewhere.

Sorry, ranting on there - im pretty sure it would work: RBG to SCART.

[Rave]

RGB and Component are entirely different formats. Component is essentially a hopped up form of S-Video. Scart can indeed be wired for RGB, but there's no standard for component into scart.

Rich :¬)

[Howard]

Technically component is RGB but it's in funny formats like luminance, chrominance and other random things. Things a SCART lead does not carry signals of.

[Rave]

Originally Posted by Howard

Technically component is RGB but it's in funny formats like luminance, chrominance and other random things. Things a SCART lead does not carry signals of.

No, technically it's not RGB at all. RGB is just that- seperate signals for Red, Green, Blue (and Sync), so the TV can pretty much feed it straight to the guns without any decoding. Component on the other hand has one black and white connection (luminance) and two colour connections. The colour connections carry two of the colours and the third is encoded using a difference system (a similar idea to how the pro-logic rear speaker signal is encoded).

If you're using a CRT TV then you might as well use RGB if the TV doesn't have component inputs, there's no reason why the decoder in the DVD player won't be as good as the one your telly. For displays that use a digital system (like plasmas, LCDs, DLP or LCD projectors etc.) then component makes more sense; MPEG2 actually encodes the video using a component system, so if you use a component connection theoretically the picture signal goes through less conversion stages. In that case though, the best solution is simply to use a digital connection, which is why Pioneer have introduced one for their new range of DVD players and Plasma TVs.

Rich :¬)

[Bindibadgi]

Originally Posted by Howard

Technically component is RGB but it's in funny formats like luminance, chrominance and other random things. Things a SCART lead does not carry signals of.

Ahhhh now i get it. Sorry i just saw component RGB and thought it was just the components that make up the red green and blue, i completely forgot about lumi, chromi etc

[Fidley]

Would it make sense to do this (component into scart) if your dvd player only supported pro scan over component (dunno if they all do ) and there wasn't any component inputs on your telly? Cus i've just brough a (albeit cheapish) dvd player based on the fact it had pro scan at a decent price and now i can't use it (pro scan). Or are you saying it's just not possible (sorry i'm new to all this).

:EDIT:
Would this do the job http://www.tvcables.co.uk/cgi-bin/tvcables/PGV373.html?

[Alex]

Not unless your TV supports prgressive scan and component input on one of the SCART sockets, I'm afraid. Your best bet is an RGB SCART cable, and to connect it normally.

[5lab]

prog scan isnt *that* much better than normal. additionally, if your tv doesnt have component inputs, it almost certainly wont support progressive scan itself