I just happened to notice this cable on TV cables website
http://www.tvcables.co.uk/cgi-bin/tvcables/PGV372.html

It connects the three seperate Red Green and Blue connectors found on some DVD players to a standard SCART cable.

Although i am perfectly happy with the picture quality via the RGB SCART cable i currently use i was wondering if there would be any improvement in picture quality by using a cable like this?, is there any advantage to carrying each colour down a seperate insulated, shielded cable like this?

My DVD player does have this type of output so no problem there but would this work on a standard TV or does it require a progressive scan capable TV to work? My TV is getting on a bit now (approx 8 years old) although at 33 inches it still offers a decent viewing area.

anyway any info appreciated

You might find that your RGB SCART cable actually has 5 Video Coax cables in it RGB and PAL in both directions - all this cable does is allow those without a SCART on their DVD to connect to their SCART TV

Hi Folks,

Let me clear up the cable issue for you, the Profigold PGV37x series are a scart to 3x phono cable, bi-directional but only used for connecting component via scart to 3x phono component. Most common use is DVD players with component enabled scarts to Plasmas, LCDs and projectors etc.

The most common mistake made with this cable is to try and connect RGB from a scart into a component phono input, it doesn't work as the video signals are not compatible. RGB and component YUV (YPbPr) share the same pins of a scart connector.

RGB video causes a lot of confusion as there are three flavours, RGsB, RGBS and RGBHV. RGsB uses sync on green and can be done using three cables eg the PGV37x BUT, most consumer electronics will neither generate RGsB nor display it.

Most consumer kit produces RGBS, RGB+Sync where the sync is transmitted using the composite video pin of the scart. The cable for connecting this into 4 phonos is the Profigold PGV7405 or PGV7410. These are directional as the sync is directional.

Next is RGBHV or PCRGB which has two syncs H & V, commonly found on 15 way HD connectors on the back of Plasmas and Projectors, these connectors allow direct connection of PC video cards but most consumer kit (DVDs, Sky etc) will not connect to it without using a sync splitter (RGBS to PCRGB converter).

Hope that helps......

Andy
Director TVCables.

On an almost similar subject, are thos SCRAT to 3 RCA (composite + LR audio) connectors bi-directional ?

I have several that came with digital cameras etc, to plug INTO the TV, but I'm looking for some way to got OUT of the TV into my PC.

(I'm guessing that it isn't, butI don't want to try it as my PC is many rooms away from my TV - but when I know how to connect it up I'm going to build a new PC to make a PVR)


Thanks

Tim.C

Im not sure if they are as standard but you could easily create a bi directional one by using a scart block. Most (if not all) scart blocks have a switch to select input or output so all you need is a scart block and the three phono cables.

There a few types of these adapters, the cheapest ones are fixed in one direction so you have to buy an In or an Out. All our ones are direction switchable and have the s-video socket as well.

Andy
TVCables