AV cable vs SCART

[gino_76ph]

in your experience which one is the best one to connect your PS2 to your TV? a standard AV (yellow-red-white) cable or the european standard SCART cable? is there any big diferrence?

[bigblue]

The scart cable is far preferable to composite. Leaving it disconnected is preferable to composite

[Stoo]

yup, go with scart..

Or if your tv will accept it component, or svideo

[dfour]

I always thought s-video was worse than scart. I would stick with scart unless you have component.

[directhex]

Scart is a 21-pin connector, capable of carrying 3 types of video signal:

• Composite
• S-Video
• RGB

The best signal you can send through SCART is RGB, but this requires a special SCART socket at the other end (typically, a TV will have 1 RGB-SCART socket and the rest will be inferior sockets)

Generally speaking, the list of picture quality goes like this (worst to best)

• RF Modulator (Ariel socket)
• Composite (SCART or yellow RCA socket)
• S-Video (SCART or black mini-DIN socket)
• RGB (SCART)
• Component (3x RCA socket)