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    AV cable vs SCART

    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?

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

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    yup, go with scart..

    Or if your tv will accept it component, or svideo
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    Re: AV cable vs SCART

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

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    Re: AV cable vs SCART

    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)

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