Not sure if it is in the correct place but...

I bought a SCART to VGA cable last week. I got it, and plugged it in to the laptop and then to my tv.

I pressed "fn" and F4 to put it on to the TV but it did not work. I tried using my VGA to VGA cable via plasma and that worked (so i know "fn" + F4 works), but i cant get it working on my CRT tv using the VGA to Scart.

Any ideas?

Scart to VGA isn't really a standard way of hooking up a PC to TV but it can be done, possibly , but depends on several factors.

You'd have to make sure the TV was set to RGB mode and not Svideo or composite. You'd have to make sure the VGA output was set no higher than 60Hz and the resolution might have to be 800x600.

Also PAL tv is interlaced scanningwhereas a monitor is progressive scanning, your TV may simply not accept the input.

There might well be timing issues also as PAL tv's are not generally speaking compatible with a PC output .... I know you can use some graphics cards like the Ati Radeon with powerstrip tweaking software this but it's not something that's as straightforward as it might appear.

Is it something like this maplin lead?
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?...C=SO&U=strat15

see this forum also:
http://www.avforums.com/forums/showt...1&page=1&pp=15

This won't work - the VGA signal output by your laptop is not compatible with the RGB signal the TV expects to receive on SCART.

You can only do it in one of these ways:

1. Use the TV Out socket, usually composite or s-video, on the laptop instead of its VGA socket (but you might not have one).

2. Use the VGA input of your TV (but your TV might not have one).

3. Buy a VGA-to-RGB converter. Not sure if they exist actually, I think I was looking for one recently and the best I could come up with was a VGA-to-composite converter which then plugs into a composite-to-RGB converter (but you might as well just use the VGA-to-composite converter - these are available from Maplin, made by Avermedia I think).

4. Set your laptop to output interlaced video at 15kHz horizontal refresh rate and 50Hz vertically with a resolution of 720x576 (but your laptop might not be able to do this), then you could use your VGA-to-SCART lead. Some graphics cards for desktops, like nvidia and ati, would allow you to do this.

Certainly some cards can do it, albeit with some messing about, not so sure about laptop or basic onboard graphics though.

Saw this, but not sure if it works or not:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Laptop-PC-VGA-...QQcmdZViewItem

Mm, should do, not seen one of those before that has RGB output as well.

dont bother with scart to vga

i bought two from ebay (first one didnt work so they sent a replacement)
2nd didnt work either, now maybe this was down to the telly not being up to scratch but i opted instead for a cheap pci gfx card which has tv-out on s-video and this works wonders

See post #3! A simple SCART to VGA cable won't work, it is simply an adaptor to convert one type of plug into another, but the signals sent down the cable will not be compatible. You can buy a RJ11 to RJ45 adaptor but if you use it to plug a phone into an Ethernet hub it won't give you voice over IP! You need a box of tricks to convert it or get a phone that can work with IP, in other words with a video cable, you need either a converter box to convert VGA to RGB or a computer/graphics card that can work with TV signals in the first place.

Not sure what a converter would do with refresh rates of 72/75 and 85Hz?

It'll do it! That's how TV Out ports on graphics cards work - it doesn't matter what resolution or refresh rate you have set on your main monitor, the TV Out port will always output 720x576, interlaced, at 50Hz, in PAL format. (Actually, I think the drivers will probably allow you to choose 50Hz/60Hz, interlaced/non-interlaced, which version of PAL etc, but this is specifically for the TV port which is independant of the VGA port)

See the above Ebay link...

"Support 640x480@60/72/75/85Hz, 800x600@60/72/75/85Hz, 1024x768@60/70/75/85Hz, 1280x1024@60 "

This means it can cope with those inputs, but the output will be so that a TV can display it.

I think these converter boxes are also known as Scan Converters, so that explains it!

I dont have svid on the tv i was going to be using

That unit also outputs composite video and RGB, or so it says. The Avermedia PC to TV converter that I mentioned does composite, s-video, and component. http://www.averm.co.uk/avermedia/products/comptv.html (three products there, the one I was looking at was the Lite).

Why not use the S-VIDEO TV Out from the laptop and then a simple composite adapter plug to the TV? It would be a much cheaper solution.

If you have phono sockets on your TV, you could use this for the video.

If you only have SCART sockets, use an adapter like this one.

SCART to VGA cables are designed to let you watch a RGB scart picture on a LCD computer monitor, they wont work the other way around. Not only is that just *impossible*, but the SCART connector will be wired in the other direction (input instead of output).

-Chris

yes, scart to vga cables are different from vga to scart.
not only for wiring, but also you could need some extra component like resistor etc. also, you need to convert horizontal sync from 31 to 15khz.
I have made a complete guide to build this cable here:

http://digilander.libero.it/venturi1975

here you'll find schemes and other explanations (such as how to get 15khz from your video card).

hope this can help

And you felt the need to dig up this 22 month old thread and add your maiden post to it because...............?

because is not easy to find a way to build this cable and my guide ist the first easy way to solve this problem.
Yes, 22 months are a lot of time, but lots of people come to this thread (mainly using google) in search of a response...
so I think my post could be still usefoul today.
a proof should be that this post has over 11,000 views (other post usually not gains 1000/1500 views).

Try the following which explains how to build your own cable and how to set up powerstrip:

http://www.idiots.org.uk/vga_rgb_scart/

Terry

Great way to welcome a new member, well done

of course I know it! as you can see this site now link on my gude..

The comment was not aimed at you but english speaking people who migh prefer the following english language site:

http://www.idiots.org.uk/vga_rgb_scart/

Terry

sorry... now I understand.
my guide is translated in english by google but of course is not the same thing... unluckely my english is not so perfect to let me to write a complete guide.... thank you.

Resurrecting this thread because I genuinely want to hook up a DVD player to my old flat screen monitor.
Will a scart to VGA lead work?
Or is the s video out through a convert box thingy to VGA the best way?

Do I need to wire up audio separately if the visual display works? The monitor actually has integrated speakers but I never used them even when it was used as a monitor.

Or will I just have to give up a buy a flat screen TV?
I don't really want to have to buy a new laptop just to watch DVDs :/

Yes

No

Yes

No, but it might be better to get a new DVD player with HDMI out.

See the following link:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=VG...ient=firefox-a

Terry

No it won't, VGA and TV are completely non-compatible.

You would need a converter box to make it work, which aren't very good quality anyway - just buy a proper TV.