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Post by Yart on Nov 15, 2009 16:23:29 GMT
Indeed. Like myself.
I'm from NTSC land where we've never had RGB. It's a composite/S-Video/component land.
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Post by mick_aka on Nov 15, 2009 21:13:30 GMT
But the point is for people who don't have TV's with RGB support! Interestingly enough I recently had the chance to look at the internals of a broken American Sony Wega CRT back in May and the internals were pretty much identical to it's UK couterparts, the space for SCART sockets was simply blanked off on the back. I never had the time to properly investigate but I would not be that surprised if displaying RGB on most US TVs is simply limited by the lack of the sockets and different firmware... |
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Post by Yart on Nov 15, 2009 21:18:51 GMT
Are you telling me that if I had the UK guts of the same TV released in the US, I could get SCART? I considered ordering a CRT TV from the UK (that supports NTSC/60hz) but I'd imagine the shipping would be ludicrous and there'd be a high chance of it breaking on it's way here. If the gut thing works (like if someone can confirm it), I'd so try to find some parts online and say "screw it!" to component and just go pure RGB SCART. It would save some of the hassle hunting down all that extra stuff and leave less of a wire mess behind the TV. Mind you, I'm thinking unrealistically and dumb now.  |
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Post by mick_aka on Nov 15, 2009 21:23:58 GMT
The major problem with that would be changing the firmware of the TV as any European TV's American counterpart will have NO option to switch to a SCART input.
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Post by Yart on Nov 15, 2009 21:29:56 GMT
Yea I meant switch that too.  I think I'll just stick to component and be happy at that. Besides, there's virtually no difference between that and RGB anyways from what I hear. |
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Post by Kibbles on Nov 15, 2009 21:32:12 GMT
It's possible to hack an RGB socket into any old CRT, as the feed that goes to the tube itself is just RGB.
But... there is a very big but here. You absolutley must know what the fuck you are doing.
The voltage stored in the capacitors in a TV can kill you even if it's been unplugged for over a year.
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Post by Yart on Nov 15, 2009 21:33:25 GMT
...The voltage stored in the capacitors in a TV can kill you even if it's been unplugged for over a year. Well that settles it! Component it is! |
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Post by superdeadite on Nov 18, 2009 0:16:57 GMT
Not all, but some American TV's will accept RGB through the Component jacks. Easy way to test is with a PS2. Just plug it in to the component, then switch the PS2 to RGB mode and see if the screen fucks up or not.
Most people seem to think SCART=RGB this is not true. SCART is just a connector. RGB can be carried by many different ways. Here in Japan there are 4 common ways, 21pin, 15pin, RCA, AV-Multi. All are completely different plugs, but all are RGB.
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Post by Yart on Nov 29, 2009 19:40:36 GMT
I noticed this thread got pinned, so I'm going to post everything you need for this setup that Mick linked me to so the info is still here once the eBay auctions end. Just so in the future anyone else who wants this information won't have missed out on it. If possible, please don't reply!! Reference post.Sega Saturn RGB SCART Cable.  SCART Pass Through + SVHS & Phonos SCART Adapter  SCART RGB to YUV Component Video Converter,Transcoder  Component Video Cable  |
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Post by mick_aka on Nov 29, 2009 23:56:41 GMT
Thread locked and stickied for the rest of time!
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