OT (again) Scart connections.

In uk.rec.motorcycles, platypus said:

Sir.Tony?

How many times has anyone wanted to say "eat shit" to him?

<G>

If it's any less than mogadon you can keep it ;-)

 

You'll be lucky to find anything in your TV/Satellite/Home Theatre
system with an earth these days. It's a good idea to pick one item
and add a separate chassis ground if you don't want a nice
tingle whenever you touch any exposed metalwork.

Many progs are broadcast with loud mains hum.
It wasn't a problem in the days of 2-inch TV speakers....

Many Sherwood AV amps from Richer sounds have excessive hum.
Background noise is generally too loud in the shop to hear it.

 

On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 01:00:37 +0100, Ian < (really address

Wot Ian said. To the letter, just about, what I posted in response to
this query a couple of months ago.

 

*Lovely*

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Pip posted:

How much is a decent scart lead? Thought an extra one was required in
the setup last week, and after seeing prices going over 40 quid decided
to borrow one. Turns out I didn't need it anyway which was nice.

 

Piece of string question, mate. I reckon on 20 - 25 quid for mine,
but they are all 2 metre length ribbon cable types. Gold connectors
help with picture quality.

That was a bonus - always concerning when you run out of spaghetti.

 

Pip posted:

Righto. ISTR being advised that the gold connectors don't do jack
(tenuous pun intended). Is this wr and do they make a difference?

Especially as there was enough spaghetti when I set it up. Someone else
had a play and needed more cables.

 

Dunno, tbh. I'm at a loss to explain the concept of "hard plating"
with 24K gold. I suspect that a manufacturer who goes to the trouble
of applying a smear of gold to the connector may do a better job when
it comes to the cables and their terminations. The big thing about
gold of course, is that it doesn't oxidise, certainly not as quickly
as other metals commonly used for connectors.

I use gold-ended cables because they look nice, they make a nice
"feeling" contact IYSWIM and tbh all the cables I look at come with
gold ends so there is little option, it appears. I've certainly never
had the chance to test certainly identical cables back-to-back, one
having gold ends and the other not.

So that will be a wibbleflop, then.

 

I agree with what your saying but I still reckon the OP should *try* the
Argos one, it's good. If it doesn't suit, then take it back (16 day
money back guarantee etc.) If you like it and feel it should cost £40+
then put the difference in the UKRM endurance team pot. ;o)

 

Mine was GBP 80

Made a big difference though
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Higher perceived value. Gold connectors do definitely tarnish less though.
For realy high end stuff there seems to be a bit of a move away from it.
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I just ordered a Trilogy 1 from lektropacks.com
https://www.lektropacks.co.uk/dept.asp?Hash=617&dept_id=112

£99 + £10 delivery

If you can wait a few days then I'll let you know how I get on with it.

 

I guess it depends on the player. Mine is a Cyrus DVD7

Well duh

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Remember that I told you that I had ordered a Trilogy 1 from
lektropacks.com?
https://www.lektropacks.co.uk/dept.asp?Hash=617&dept_id=112

Well it arrived this morning.

It took me maybe five or ten minutes to set it up and ho yus it's an
absolute beauty!

I now have my PlayStation2, X-Box, DVD, VCR, and digital set-top box all
working perfectly through it.
Much better than the cheap JVC five-into-one scart adaptor that I'd bought
from Dixons (which was all but useless TBH).

Anyway, the new one autoswitches for you which is handy, but if for some
reason you are running multiple inputs you can switch between them using the
remote control.

It will also let you video tape a movie from your cable / digital /
satellite box whilst you play a computer game and stuff like that.

The final natty trick it pulled, which I did appreciate I must say, was
having stereo phono out sockets so that now I've got all my kit wired into
my hi-fi with just the one cable rather than the spaghetti and messing about
remembering which input to select that I used to endure.

Of course, I'm sure that I could have just bought a more up to date posh
telly instead... but there's nothing actually wrong with my old one and I
reckon this little box was £100 well spent (and way cheaper than a new
telly).

HTH

 

Thing is, even my fairly posh 32" Sony Trinitron Widescreen only has
three SCART sockets. I had Sky, DVD, VCR, and PS2 (though admittedly
I seldom used the PS2 or the video). So I ran the PS2 through the
VCR, though I had to re-cable it all the three times I wanted to video
something.

My telly here (nasty Phillips 25" square-screen doesn't have SCART at
all. I've got my DVD player connected with a round-plugged cable.
**** knows how I'm going to hook up the PS2 when it arrives (with the
rest of my shit from England) tomorrow.

 

Hmmmm... I suppose three scart inputs sounds like rather a lot. Until you
start accumulating more and more scart devices that is.
Then again, my telly's also a Sony Trinitron (21", regular shaped screen, so
not as posh, but still posh-ish) and the bugger's only got the one scart
input... tsk!

Can't you loop it through your DVD? Not sure without checking but I think my
(Sony) DVD player's got a loop through circuit (just checked, and it does
seem to have a scart loop through. My digital set top box has one too, check
your kit, you might have one).

If not then perhaps you can split out the yellow phono for video using a
cheap splitter or something, then buy a phono extension and wire white and
red ones into your hi-fi. Maybe the split out video will work, maybe it
won't, not having tried it direct to the telly / VCR / whatever I don't
know, but for the sake of a couple of quid it's worth a try surely?

 

My very similar Panasonic has 3 SCARTs too. Two DVDs and a VCR take
care of that - the PS2 goes in the front sockets, with the flap rather
charmlessly open all the time. I suppose the PS2 could go into the
triple input in the front of the VCR, now I think about it. Then
there's the S-video lead that runs from the Dolby amp for onscreen
adjustments - that's in the flapped input too ;-)

That'll be the way to do it - Ben should be able to loop through VCR,
DVD and PS2 through each other and with a bit of selection
jiggery-pokery get them all to work with each other.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Have you not learned your lesson yet?

There's a world of spaghetti possibilities with use of SCART-phono
adaptors.

On connection to hi-fi - and one assumes a surround system of some
kind - I reckon the best multi-purpose solution is to connect the
audio outputs found on the back of the telly to the 'aux' or even 'TV'
inputs of the amp. This feeds 'screen-linked' sound to the amp -
whatever your source is, then sound appropriate to the picture is
routed to the amp.

I'd still use a dedicated high-quality pair of phonos/digital
interconnect for those sources so equipped, mind.

 

Swot I do. PS2 into DVD, DVD into VCR, VCR into TV.

 

Thass the feller. I didn't want to wibble from a position of
nothavingtriedit, and CBA to go and try it ;-)

 

About what exactly?

That cheap five into one scart adaptors are crap? Well yes, that is a lesson
that I've well and truly learned (oh it was so much fun earlier when I video
taped a section of a console game that keeps beating me, I wound back and
took time to see just where the bits-that-I've-got-to-deal-with were <g>).

But about cheap phono / whatever-you-call-coax-connectors two way splitters
/ combiners? What about them? They work fine, always have done, FFS I'm
still actually using one and the output is great TYVM... no plans to change
it either, no need 'n all that; never had any problem with 'em.