Thread 105825460

Euroscart was the perfect connector
>easy to plug
>easy to fix
>highest VA quality of its time
Why did it have to die? Why did we adopt gay HDMI?

>analog
You know why.
Also,
>SHART

Analog and not HD. But worked perfectly.

>>105825460 (OP)
It was the best if you never needed to plug it out or move it.

God was it thick and god forbid you wanted to change direction.

Also almost all of them I had were too lose and would fall out and required fiddling with it.

And the TV connectors wore out after a time and becase lose too.

I remember I had to stack like 7 books to hold it at just the right angle so the is correct.

>>105825460 (OP)
It was thick and unwieldy as hell but kino like no other

>>105825460 (OP)
The cheaper connectors, which were common, literally fell apart after some use, and the pins of those were usually loose and you had to wiggle the plug to plug it in. Also it has no RGB in one of the directions.

>>105825460 (OP)
>easy to plug
??? nigger were you even alive?

>>105825492
To add: it was of course still much better than what the americucks got (nothing and then incremental "upgrades" to composite, svideo and so on)

>>105825492
Chink connectors were so disgustingly bad. I remember specifically buying Phillips because those never failed.

>>105825498
It's pretty obvious that OP never used one. Nobody called it "Euroscart" in Europe.
He likely never used analog video either. Zoomer nostalgia I guess.

>>105825460 (OP)
Tell me you have never used it without telling me that you have never used it

>>105825612
It was called Euroscart in my country (Romania).

>>105826073
>>105825612
Was just called SCART in the UK.
I had those little converters for anything that didn't have scart

>>105825460 (OP)
>>105825467
Where is your god now ?!

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>105825612
PéritelGODS...

>>105825460 (OP)
>perfect connector
>gets loose after 10 plug-unplug cycles

>>105825474
>Analog and not HD
It can basically carry VGA (with composite sync) so you probably would actually be able to send 1080p over a decently shielded SCART cable.

So that the HDMI cables would break every two years. This is what I'm considering buying, braided and """heavy duty""", we'll see how long it lasts.

>>105826176

The fact that ANY connector could operate as INPUT and OUTPUT was actually so based!

I still have some of these with the switch on them

>>105825475
>he didn't enjoy the ritual of blindly fumbling around the back of your TV because it only had one scart port but both your console and VHS playing used scart

> image turns pink
> move cable
> image turns blue, audio turns to mono
> move cable again
> image turns green

Nothing personal kid

>>105828587
>things that never happened

>>105825467
SCART is 30 years older than the word shart you fool.

>>105825467
Buy an ad, Mike.

>>105825460 (OP)
>of its time.
Because of newer and better standards.

>>105825460 (OP)
It was just 5 different standards put on one connector and you never really know what the device in front of you actually supported. It was just annoying to use.

Now that I think about it, it's like USB-C

>>105826315
I bought one of those to connect an old VCR to my TV. Haven’t tried it yet.

>>105828682
>SCART is 30 years older than the word shart you fool.
And?

>>105831006
Imagine you invent something cool today and gen gamma brainrot sounds similar to what you call it. Shall we drop your invention because of unborn retards?

>>105831037
You're not dropping it because of the name. You're dropping it because it's shit.

>>105825488
It was garbage and you know it.

>>105828587
kek exactly

>>105825460 (OP)
I miss scart

>>105825460 (OP)
probably too heavy for them lot in Brussels

>>105825460 (OP)
>easy to plug
Fucking LMAO
Also, remember when earth leakage was a thing (it still is) those bastards would shock the FUCK out of you. Good riddance.
>>105826902
>still in the AliExpress mega factory
anon just buy good cables
I bought a fancy flat "Uber high speed with ethernet" HDMI cable like, 15 years ago because it looked cool and it's still kicking
>>105828670
t. has never used scary
>>105832049
Anon are you doing okay?

>>105825460 (OP)
Companies get scared when their consumer products look a little too bulky

>>105825474
Good devices had SCART RGB in and out. Stuff of dreams in my Sony Trinitron 32"

I still have a bunch of these chunky cables in a box

>>105826902
How tf are you braking hdmi cables? You ain't supposed to remove them with a claw hammer. Wtf are you doing anon?

I'm so glad USB-C is taking over everything

>>105834498
Pretty much any tv with SCART also had RGB, RGB is more or less the native signal of the picture tube - if it takes composite input it has to internally decode that into an RGB signal to drive it. It wasn't a unique feature of high quality tvs.

And also outputting straight RGB is easier to do than outputting a composite signal.

it was fucking dogshit. having to wiggle the cunt up and down til it stopped showing rainbow artifacts was not exactly fun, even as a kid.

>>105832074
>t. has never used scary
sure thing buddy.
you either had crappy non-rgb scart cables (the 10 pin version) or the stupid rca to scart adaptors.

>>105837329
I appreciate the commitment, if I can be bothered I'll show you mine.
I think we did have some that were composite, but we also had some rgb ones too
Still though, having the same cable with two completely different video standards supported fucking sucked

>>105825460 (OP)
When I worked retail way back, I had a man ask me about SNARF cables. Not even joking.

>>105825460 (OP)
>highest VA quality of its time
Only if you bought $100 cables with individually shielded pins, otherwise you got video crosstalk up the wazoo and buzzing noise in the audio whenever the screen had a high brightness. A common trick in the 80s/90s was to open the plug and disconnect pin 19, the video output pin, this made the cables impossible to use to record from VCRs, but it halved or even completely removed the video crosstalk.

>>105825612
>Nobody called it "Euroscart" in Europe.

We called it Euroscart here in middle Europe.

>>105838532
We called it Scarty Scarttins here in Middle-Earth

>>105836513
Many HDMI cables are made cheap and the weight of the cable is enough to bend the connector out of the plastic socket. I had to get 90 degree extenders to prevent that (and also to be able to put my AV gear closer to the wall).