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[@Wvdlinden1]

As a Dutch viewer I don't recall any equipment not having Scart, it was as common as HDMI

[@Sand2Go]

Many European countries were the same.

[@whoho1]

German here, same. That connector was just as abundant as HDMI is today.

[@mastaw]

@aufaoyyxöjca Same. Even my 2020 TV still has scart

[@whoho1]

@aufaoyyxöjca I never realized but man, you are correct. Every new TV i saw still got HMDI and Scart.

[@webfischi]

@@mastaw Scart is not that common anymore, you can still find it on cheap and small TVs but 55" Samsung QLED already ditched it

[@danwhite7410]

Genuinely fascinated to learn SCART wasn’t really a thing in Northern America!

[@irreverend_]

Yeah, I was surprised when he said scart after saying it was obscure. Everything here in the UK used it for a couple of decades

[@finalcam1740]

We went from rca to component to hdmi.

[@VincentGonzalezVeg]

'The Republic'

[@mikelovesbacon]

Such an uncivilised place!

[@SchaffnerMovies]

Definitely weird. I mean, even my flatscreen LED TV still has a scart port and it is not even that old! Though it's now slowly dying out.

[@jgooding213]

From UK here and it’s crazy seeing SCART being called obscure, It’s basically the only connector I used when I was younger and even our composite cables went through an adapter into SCART... they used to work with several pins missing too... they were basically the nokia 3310 of cables, everyone had them and the were indestructible!

[@JamesNHurling1]

Haha we are old now, I'm only 33 and remember exactly what you're saying seems like it was yesterday vga and s art were popular. Even different types of vga that weren't as good as others I come across at work too.

[@MrManniG]

Well, I'm 31 and in germany. When SCART was phased out my local electronics store "sold" their leftover stock in SCART-Cables for one cent each. Do I need to tell you that I still have about twenty or thirty of them left since these refuse to break under almost any circumstances?

[@jaskajokunen3716]

I remember having to duct tape ny scart adapter onto the tv sibce it was loose 😔

[@parp]

SCART was basically the old HDMI

[@wubbsy]

Never really liked Scart because it wasn’t as secure of a connection as RCA. They always felt like broken headphones where have to wiggle them around to find just the right spot for the connector to make contact. And hope no one bumps into it.

[@1kelpy]

S-Video was the middle child that everyone forgot about

[@no1DdC]

Graphics cards up to the mid 2000s often had it, since lots of TVs had this as an input option. Tried it once and the video quality was so horrible that I never tried it again. Might have been due to the terrible TV though.

[@AC3handle]

@@no1DdC The connectors on the S video can be spotty, as well as the cables themselves. If the connectors inside become loose, any minor jiggling around means they loose connections with one of the colors very easily. I remember there was the same issue with audio cabling using the same type of connector.

[@no1DdC]

@@AC3handle Correct, but with this TV, any image looked shoddy. It was a very late (and very large) Philips CRT, late enough to even have an HDMI port. Even through that port, the image looked horrible. SCART? The same. Composite and Component as well.

[@AC3handle]

@@no1DdC Then that sounds like it was just the TV itself looking cruddy. Phillips was never one of the good brands. Just another one of the backbreaker 32" or larger sets you played video games on back in the day.

[@GundamAngelicDevil]

I was gonna say "what about S-Video?"

[@aisback1990]

As someone in England seeing people get confused by Scart is amazing

[@joecool4656]

Do you still use it?

[@David_Logr]

ikr, lol (europeans in general)

[@NotAnEldritchHorror]

Agreed, I still use it for my Nintendo Wii and Xbox 360 (yes 360).

[@mbntr2363]

yep, they were everywhere here in italy too, still are to an extent (with old consoles for example)

[@genu9470]

@@joecool4656 Of course! can't use my wii otherwise

[@jippalippa]

As a European it was all about SCART cables here. You can still EASILY find them in stores, for dirt cheap

[@vince207]

Memories :D GameCube was able to send progressive scan signal with "le peritel"

[@LRM12o8]

And they always broke. I hated that connector with a passion and in my experience it even delivered worse quality than composite! (though admittedly I never had the opportunity to do an exact A-B testing with otherwise identical devices. Not that I would have thought to do so back then, as a child)

[@jpHasABadHandle]

@@LRM12o8 You've had some tough luck. Not a single SCART cable I had as a kid broke. And I didn't handle electronics with care back then...

[@reznov4291]

@@vince207 afaik the RGB AV output of a PAL Gamecube cannot display 480p

[@andrewgwilliam4831]

@@LRM12o8 Cheap SCART plugs are awful. The build quality certainly varied widely.

[@berndeckenfels]

Scart was also popular with VCR as it is bi-directional for recording and play

[@stephensnell5707]

It is not bi-directional You cannot switch sides Both ends will connect in the same orientation

[@berndeckenfels]

@@stephensnell5707 wp says SCART is bi-directional regarding standard composite video and analogue audio. A TV will typically send the antenna audio and video signals to the SCART sockets all the time and watch for returned signals, to display and reproduce them. This allows "transparent" set-top boxes, without any tuner, which just "hook" and pre-process the TV signals.

[@FireDragonAndromeda]

@@stephensnell5707 It is bidirectional in that it can receive and transmit information at the same time.

[@tylerbeaumont]

Here in the UK, SCART was probably the most common connector I saw in my childhood. My mum still calls HDMI and DP cables “SCART” because it was so common back in the day! The idea that something so ubiquitous throughout my life could be called “obscure” by an expert in the field that covers that thing is… honestly bizarre to hear.

[@stephensnell5707]

SCART still exists even now I still use it myself for example

[@lukeperryglover]

"I feel like I'm being called out by this script." Good, that was an awesome video.

[@andreyabrz]

@Techquikie yo wanna some money? Get a real job.

[@dustysparks]

What, no S-Video?! It was literally SITTING IN FRONT OF YOU on that video card! hehehe

[@MaxUgly]

To be fair, I know what an s-video cable is and had only heard of scart, never seen one, and had no idea about the Mac cable. I think there are a few standards using ethernet to carry HDMI and stuff like that. EDIT: BNC connectors?

[@jlficken]

I think I just threw my last S-Video cable away maybe 2 years ago.

[@wybevisser777]

@@MaxUgly to be fair i have hundreds of scart cables laying around somewhere because they came with everything before hdmi was big, i've never actually heard of s-video which im looking into at this moment. i was just looking at bnc connectors, and wow those are niche

[@Shaibuli]

S-Video was great! With PS2 it provided a huge visual upgrade even over SCART. Its only real downfall, of course, was the fact that it didn't carry sound, which made it a bit of a hazzle to connect (S-video, plus two separate RCA leads for audio). In my experience S-Video cables could also be a bit fragile, but that might've also been due to my old Sony flatscreen having the connector on the side, which made it pretty vulnerable for bumps and collitions :)

[@muaries12]

Was about to write something similar! That was a fancy connector not for the poor in the 90's in south america

[@justusgovaert]

Scart was a really nice connector with the only disadvantage being that it was a quite large connector and a pretty thick cable. I didn't expect this to only be populair in Europe since it used to be the best kind of cable for monitors or televisions most of the time. I liked this scart connection and it is fun to see that we just did it better in Europe than you in North America for example

[@aaronallgrunn7845]

Loved those old printer cables, always felt like something special with those huge connectors.

[@the_kombinator]

Try the 50 pin SCSI centronics version.

[@bit2shift]

​​@@the_kombinator better yet, try the HD68 or the VHDCI versions. Those were the very last SCSI connectors before SAS became a thing.

[@breakcoregirlxd]

scart was basicallty the standard with dvd players and vcrs but with game consoles they shipped with composite cables and a scart adaptor which had like 4 pins in it to adapt it

[@noamdelz8864]

My wii came with a scary adapter

[@superfishlive]

@@noamdelz8864 Hope you weren't too scared to play.

[@decoycat]

Scart was the usb-c for tvs

[@wharpblast264]

As I remember the big consumer benefit of scart over coaxiel was improved sound (near Hi-Fi) until then TV sound quality was always poor. But what was it called ?

[@RareSushi]

I still have my wii with the composit to start adapter

[@WineLad]

god I'm only 23 and I remember scart being everywhere: ps2, vhs, wii dvd player... It really is weird seeing the difference in scale standardisation has taken throughout the years from country to continent to worldwide in some cases. That said this video almost makes me feel as old as when a kid asked me what the heck a "game boi" was T_T

[@pepa9343]

i was wondering in my 30 if im that old if i remember scart and others... i have even scart with 3 cinchs on other side :D

[@grafvinestarry]

Now I feel me old with my 22 😐

[@jarnobredau]

now i feel old with 15 ahah , the tvs we had at home all had this and we used it until 7-8 years ago, now we are still using it sometimes, for ps2 or sth else

[@thecaffee1065]

Are you kidding me! Europe got Scart for Wii!!! I am so jealous.

[@LRM12o8]

@@thecaffee1065 SCART is shit! It had a tendency to break and in my experience always look notably worse than composite. It was ridiculously bulky and delicate at the same, I always hated it and wished that more devices than just my PS2 would use composite or even component

[@melonenstrauch1306]

I just love DIN plugs. They're even still used today in MIDI.

[@t3amb4sh]

4pin DIN connection is used for my old synthesizer, Alesis QS6. Not video connector, but still, DIN plug it is :D

[@mrkitty777]

Midi used opticl couplers in the DIN plugs gainst ground loops and as protection since cabling things together because it fits isn't always smart.

[@bluespartan076]

Commodore computer and Atari ST DIN sockets are a favorite of mine

[@JustYourAvarageEgg]

9 pin din connctor can be used for video, if i remember correctly.

[@andreapellegrinucci7542]

The SCART connector was actually relatively good and highly scalable. In Italy it was the standard for literally everything. The main problem of it though, was that since the cable itself was very thick and heavy, and the plug didn't have any type of locking mechanism, the weight of the cable usually ended up ruining the connector because of the extreme stress on the plug. Then your port would begin to make poor contact and you would get all sorts of noise and stuff, after many years of use you usually ended up constantly messing with the plug, trying to improve the connection. Sadly this could have been fixed by just planning a couple of screws like for VGA cables.

[@stephensnell5707]

The Cable isn't heavy,it is just chunky

[@nadavgolden]

I’d love to see Linus upgrading his home setup to use HDBaseT throughout his house!

[@SkylarsTerribleMemes]

that would be pretty cool!

[@nadavgolden]

@@knightnight8050 good point for gaming though it may be just enough for a tv/movie living room setup. Will it support 4K HDR@30 ?

[@caleballen1330]

Or switching to SCART!

[@Arctic_silverstreak]

@@nadavgolden although maybe good idea, fiber optic hdmi and display port do exist and can work without any adapter or new card like those advoli one

[@ChristopherMahn]

@@Arctic_silverstreak But with HDBaseT and a Patch-Panel you could easily route your Computer to another room. So you would only need one VM/Computer, that can move anywhere, as long as there is an receiver with display and input devices.

[@ejasmith]

Not to show my age, but Scart coming along was a massive upgrade in my childhood...

[@DunnickFayuro]

@Red Dunkey Minitel ;P

[@ahiyanali7231]

Bruh I’m 15 and I remember it was used on our sky + box and we had an av to scart adapter for wii

[@MyloSkeng]

I used AV to scart on my PS1 when I was about 8 🤣

[@zak69]

I remember connecting it to my tv 10 years ago on a brand new sony tv

[@iggysixx]

Same here, Ashley ;)

[@darthvader192837465]

God the CRT clunk at 2:35 takes me back!

[@aaronreffett7776]

13W3 was widely used by Sun and SGI equipment from the early-mid 90s. I had second hand Sun SS10s and an SGI Indy that I needed 13W3 to VGA adapters for. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

[@wtbman]

Yep. You couldn't plug a normal monitor into an SGI machine (like the Indigo or Indy) because the horizontal and vertical sync was sent on the green signal (or something like that) so you'd need a monitor that supported that (like an original SGI monitor) or some sort of conversion. Ironically most of the SGI monitors were Sony Trinitrons and you could actually solder a normal HD15 VGA connector onto the back with the separate h/v sync pins and use it for regular computers. The SGI/Sun monitors were not interchangeable as far as I could tell.

[@video99couk]

Yes, I ran a nice Sun Sony monitor on a PC for many years. But it didn't support VGA so I couldn't see the BIOS screen during boot!

[@GeoStreber]

SCART wasn't obscure at all. It was the de-facto standard for everything in Europe for almost quarter of a century.

[@jr2904]

In north America it is obscure, and that's the perspective of the content creator.

[@Kreeschon]

as an American, I thought SCART was spelled with a K until five minutes ago. So yeah, pretty obscure, and I'm sure most people in NA would be inclined to agree

[@Pcat0]

The majority of LTT's viewer are from Canada and the USA places where SCART is extremely uncommon. So for the majority of the viewers of this video, SCART is obscure.

[@TheXlen]

There are still TVs that come out with it

[@teotirn1]

the tv i grew up with was using a scart connector, because it was the cheapest one at the time..

[@thepenguin9]

Man I remember plugging scart into my dvd, ps2, vhs Those were the days

[@grahameida7163]

Yep and swearing in French (or at the French) when it popped out as you pushed the Very heavy TV back 😫

[@sepez]

And you'd only have one so you'd have to reach around the back of the vcr and move it manually lol

[@grahamb7947]

I am thankful that scart died, to be honest with you. Reaching behind your TV set trying to move around cables to plug something in.... trying to get the notch in just the right place... That was a pain in the arse which left many with severe back issues from the amount of time being bent over haha. HDMI is so much easier, all around. Ignoring the evil controls the American corporatists gained over it, much to the annoyance of anyone who's ever seen an HDCP error for no reason whatsoever.

[@thepenguin9]

@@grahamb7947 I hope this is satire as hdmi also suffers the same fate as its not a reversible connector

[@grahamb7947]

@@thepenguin9 Nah, never had nearly as many issues with HDMI. At least as inserting it goes. Thanks to it being far more compact, manufacturers were able to put the connectors on the side of flatter, lighter TVs rather than the back of a huge heavy brick, making the connectors much more visible and easier to access. Having to reach around a huge 20 kilo/3 stone 30 inch TV, without turning it around to get a visual on the connector... that was definitely a bummer for absolutely everyone who had a SCART life. Granted, it can also sometimes be a chore, especially when your HDMI TV is wall-mounted and there's just not enough hand-room to get the cable in easily, though. A torch and a good aim with two fingers on the cable solves that issue though 😅

[@robertdillane1878]

Honestly I don't exactly know what it is about Anthony, but I would listen to that lad read a phone book. Maybe its just how knowledgeable he has proven himself over and over. He always has something amazing to add to the conversation

[@NeillPowell]

Everything Anthony does is gold. He's the embodiment of "that guy" that everyone knows! Also doesn't take himself too seriously and his on-screen persona is basically who he is when he is behind the camera.

[@iustinheisu4483]

The moment you happen to be European and be much more familiar with scart than an IT channel...

[@matthewmcewen1]

Reported fake techquickie above ^

[@shahnazfiaz2015]

Reported the fake techquickie as well.

[@sittaman]

retro gaming is more popular than ever here in Brazil so scart is becoming pretty well known, there's even folks dedicated to building scart cables and converters since the Chinese ones tend to be hit and miss, as well as modding old consoles for RGB output.

[@wohlhabendermanager]

Lol yeah. I was kind of surprised when he said "lesser known connectors" and started with SCART. What does he mean? I used this all my life to hook up various devices to my TV. In fact, the TV I bought some 10 years ago STILL has a SCART connector. Interesting to see that this apparently wasn't well known/widely used in the US.

[@xavier6130]

Make sure to report the fake Techquickie as well. I did.

[@boahancock2385]

Brain: you have no interest in these plugs Eyes: see Anthony Heart: damn it, I have to watch it

[@rommelbagasina7248]

😂😂

[@burgir9985]

Shit same

[@manolakios]

@Techquckie why even pretend to be techquckie tho

[@metallurgico]

i watched it twice

[@moundain4220]

@Techquíckie Imagine pretending to be Techquickie like what kind of a low life

[@triggerhappysound]

Literally used a SCART cable last week, plugging in my old dvd player to watch some boxsets I don't have access to via streaming (and because the dvd player in my TV is ridiculously loud). Image quality was pretty good, considering I'm so used to HD content over the last few years. Excellent cable for its time.

[@stephensnell5707]

Also,DVDs are extremely reliable and they can be played billions of times with no degradation in the digital data

[@cyberbob2010]

I think DVI would obviously be one of the first suggestions. Younger folks are likely to have never seen them but for a brief time they were pretty popular.

[@no1DdC]

I have a monitor from a decade ago that only supports its full resolution of 2560x1600 via DVI and Display Port. Via HDMI, you only get 1080p, because that was the maximum resolution supported by HDMI back then. In order to connect my Xbox One X at 1440p (because it of course doesn't support the 16:10 aspect ratio), I had to use an HDMI to DVI adapter cable. Strangely enough, an HDMI to DVI adapter with an HDMI cable did not work.

[@RadOo]

Using DVI to this day..

[@CrosbysMusic]

I still use DVI a lot for doing video for live shows where there isn't any display port being used. This is because you can screw them in, making them much harder to fall out

[@JohnGeorgeBauerBuis]

@@no1DdC that is extremely surprising, considering that the video signal data of HDMI and DVI is normally identical. I guess the standards organizations hadn't gotten things synchronized yet. HDMI also supports digital audio and ethernet so that only one cable is necessary in many cases.

[@mikeflip79]

I'm surprised DVI isn't more popular. Given that it can handle both HD digital and analog. Seems like it would be the near perfect solution for bridging vintage and modern tech

[@MrHack4never]

SCART is awesome, especially when a lot of devices knew that you only had one SCART-connector on the back of your television, so you could daisy-chain the signal I will always remember my Wii->(DVD/VCR)->DTV->CRT set EDIT: it was basically HDMI before digital signals were commonly used for TV

[@markmalasics3413]

Awesome? Wow, there's word I've never heard before. 🤣🤣🤣

[@williamsquibb5249]

My 2008 lg tv has 2 scary ports. It’s pretty cool. It’s used for my game cube and n64 on mine. Also has component. Which I’ve only ever used for a Blu-ray player

[@redmckenzie820]

I didn’t know the SCART cable was only European, I’m 24 and in the UK we used it for everything when I was younger and my parents tv still uses it for their sky box

[@Sand2Go]

@xx xxx Well that is a good for Poland.

[@benoitbvg2888]

I'm French and I had no idea it was French

[@deldarel]

I learned that only a few years ago when I learned the abominable world of USA and JP plug history. We really took scart for granted here in Europe.

[@datavalisofficial8730]

I'm brazillian and i have never seen one of these irl lmao, i did know what it was before i saw this video but i didn't know it was so good, i'm impressed, we used composite here

[@kamenriderblade2099]

@@datavalisofficial8730 The rest of the world was deprived of good Image Signal Quality Pre-HDMI era. Modern SCART was able to deliver exceptional Picture Quality way back then while we were in the stone age of Image Quality Cable Standards. Look up Adam Koralik & SCART on KZbin, he has many videos on modding retro consoles to work with SCART.

[@fridaycaliforniaa236]

As a French, I remember so much these fucking PERITEL cables 😂 They where just everywhere ! They where *HUGE* a bit heavy and stiff lol. But strangely, I never had any trouble with them, apart from being bulky and sometimes hard to keep in place when moving the TV.

[@RuiPalmeira]

I think everyone complaining about the cable never actually learnt how to work with it. It had a plastic screw where the cable meets the connector, that you would have to unscrew to take out of TV/dvd/tv encoder and you had to screw it down to keep it in place tightly (good while moving/adjusting the devices). We always just kept them unscrewed as far as I can recall cause we would move VCR and console around other tvs in the house :)

[@lukassteinbrink322]

@@RuiPalmeiraIf you mean the plastic ring where the cable is going into the connector then it is to open or close the connector. You could oben it to solder your own scart cable and so on.

[@YourIdeologyIsDelusional]

I had a bunch of used Macs growing up. Daisy chaining SCSI devices, terminating the bus and setting SCSI IDs properly are things I learned to do when I was like... Around 10 years old.

[@jamesmorgan3623]

Ah but did you known when to use active terminators and when to use passive terminators? 'Cause I never did.

[@the_kombinator]

I just made my first external daisychain SCSI between a ZIP100 drive and a Nakamichi 5 cd changer on an IBM PS/1000. I've used this stuff all in the past, just never together like this. 68 pin cable to 50 pin centronics to 25 pin DB, terminated at the ZIP drive. The only thing I could do to make it more complicated is put it into my 486 EISA system :P

[@YourIdeologyIsDelusional]

@@jamesmorgan3623 I did, but for the life of me I can't remember now. I just know that there was a section talking about it in one of the old Macintosh technical books I regularly rented from the library.

[@KriLL325783]

Correction on the scart spreading through europe graphic: it was in common use in the nordic countries as well not just continental europe. In fact you can still find them on new TVs along HDMI etc because it was popular for so long if you want to use some old console or DVD player etc you'd need one or to convert to HDMI

[@Mageman17]

Jeez, and here is me wondering if my TV still had 3 plug RCA or component (it's the one with the green plug, right?) connectors. Just in case I eqqnt to plug my old Wii.

[@jamesburke2759]

You know life is missing something when you get excited about a youtube video with Anthony talking about cables you know very well already.

[@danielbarrossales5530]

Everyone needs a dose of Anthony from time to time...

[@yourmom-qf4oe]

Yes it is

[@yourmom-qf4oe]

I know all the cables except two of them in the video

[@MrGamelover23]

@@yourmom-qf4oe so only half, got it

[@h808gaming]

I could hear Anthony talk about retro video game tech for hours. Really happy rn

[@TovarasSanders]

love watching even older videos with Anthony! His love and knowledge of tech is addictive and mind-blowing ... what a wonderful guy

[@afroize]

This needs to be longer tbh.

[@GeFeldz]

The channel is called Techquickie, though =D

[@cornlourd]

agreed. Should have it's own LTT video.

[@afroize]

@@GeFeldz 😂😂 you know what I mean lol

[@ohnoitschris]

Anthony could talk for hours about cables and I'd watch every minute of it

[@oliversakic5907]

The great thing about scart is that most crt televisions from Europe have the scart connector on the back, allowing you to connect up a modern TV router and watch HD channels and Netflix!

[@VitalVampyr]

I don't understand your comment. Except for very old models CRT TVs from any region will have some kind of convenient analog audio/video input. I assume that by "TV router" you mean AV receiver and modern ones of those rarely have anything other than an HDMI output for video, so they'd require an additional converter for any analog video format and connector. So none of what you said seems unique to SCART.

[@oliversakic5907]

@@VitalVampyr I was talking about one of those smart tv boxes that allow you to stream netflix and other stuff. Here in the Netherlands scart is still just as common as hdmi, almost every device that’s meant to be connected to a TV still has the scart connector. Meaning that you can connect up most modern TV equipment to an old CRT television via scart without needing to use an adapter.

[@Olsulor11]

@@oliversakic5907 The reason it's still on all modern devices is because it's still mandatory across the EU for all AV equipment to have at least one SCART connector.

[@goeland4585]

@@Olsulor11 not anymore. My tv doesn't have it for example.

[@unvergebeneid]

@@Olsulor11 I was convinced my TV had one but I just checked and it doesn't. So no, doesn't seem to be obligatory. Which is kind of sad, it would be nice to have one for backwards compatibility.

[@samward7633]

I'm so excited that HDbaseT is getting recognition, we used them in my high school for our broadcasting class when we had to send signals from across the school, or even across the property. Was awesome having dedicated untapped ethernet lines to simply plug into, that ran back into our ops room.

[@griffin8062]

I've worked in very expensive houses where HDbaseT was used for distribution to all the TVs. This way each room didn't need it's own cablebox

[@samward7633]

@@griffin8062 Thats.... Incredibly smart

[@xenonnati]

yeah i didn't even know this exists, just went on local ebay and found equipment for it pretty cheap, i might end up using this solution for my workplace instead of what i originally intended since its so much more elegant. you never know what will end up being useful info!

[@samward7633]

@@xenonnati They are definitely an elegant way to do 'networking' of V/A sources, just gotta keep in mind it will absolutely add more points of failure. Hopefully it's a good brand you get. 😁

[@xenonnati]

@@samward7633 i doubt it would add more points than the mess of cables and boxes i'd need without it.

[@artur6912]

SCART (called the Euro plug in my parts of the wood) was both genius and cursed. On one hand, both audio and video in one cable (something we really take for granted this days) on the other hand, it was a real pain in the ass to maneuver behind the furniture to connect the VCR to the tv.

[@Krekkertje]

Scart was very user friendly. Most devices would allow for pass-through, so you could chain all of them together and only one of them eventually connected to the TV. And tv's would automatically switch to Scart input when a signal turned on. I still have a dvd player and vcr connected to my TV with Scart.

[@LRM12o8]

User friendly? It was difficult to plug in behind a TV, the cables break at the slightest touch and if you moved your TV (or any connected device) ever so slightly, the connection instantly breaks. That's been my experience with SCART as a kid, if that's what call user friendly, I'm quite confused...

[@theGamerzx3]

@@LRM12o8 i never had such problems with scart, and i have cables so broken that you dont know how it even works

[@tomcoward16]

@@LRM12o8 I didnt have any of them issues that you uniquely had . ; )

[@eurodancer9854]

Obsure video connections: *shows Scart* Me as a European 🤔

[@fungo6631]

@Techquíckie Fake

[@firestorm517]

SCART was ubiquitous here in the UK, and it was an awesome connection. Fantastic image quality.

[@KX36]

You got better image quality daisy chaining aerial coax cables through your devices before your TV. My uncle worked for a cable company so he recommended it and set it up for us. I don't think it was as simple to set up but you only have to do that once. Then we just leave the analogue TV set to channel 8 which is where he set up the Sky Digital box to come through. Before he set that up we had Sky and VCR on SCART cables and the picture was noticeably noisier.

[@josko50]

I'm always here to watch Anthony talk about his retro gaming interests.

[@Madman._.]

I'll just add myself to the pile of europeans SCART was my whole childhood, standard do-it-all cables, every house had at least 3 of them lying around xD

[@MoonLiteNite]

When i was a kid, my dad used the dip switches on the monitor cable as a way of locking me out of the computer :(

[@Adam-bt9nz]

genius play

[@PNCNDNOB]

Hahaha

[@theophilusthistler5885]

At whatage you figure it out? my dad used the old barrel lock & BIOS password though I had a phillips head screwdriver and enough foresight to replace the CR-2032 CMOS battery cell with a dead one to justify why the BIOS was at default. like Ferris Bueller's Day off... have my fun and cover my tracks before my parents got home.

[@conicEllipse]

It didn't matter WHAT I tried to do to keep my son out, he'd still find a way to break my computer like putting coins in the floppy drive. :/

[@Nak1312]

As a french, Peritel was everywhere and still is on people TV's. Everyone is France has at least 3 of those cables around ahah

[@jarsbudreaux]

I did the DiCaprio point meme IRL when I saw the HDBaseT. It's like I'm back at the office!

[@alexlandherr]

I remember when I and a friend were the unofficial “tech support” for whenever our teachers needed to plug in a laptop to the projector.

[@bland9876]

It is literaly 2 cables how can you screw that up?

[@stickiedmin6508]

@@bland9876 Oh, they found a way. Either that, or they talked themselves into being too frightened to touch it. Back in the day, if you clearly understood those two cables, there were some people who would look at you with fear and wonder, like you were a wizard.

[@solveit1304]

Anthony you skip S-Video connector! I remember as a kid hooking my NVIDIA video card to analog TV with that connector. My parents get super proud when I can watch any movie from Internet on that old TV :)

[@aegisofhonor]

I think he was talking about more obscure connectors most people might not have heard of, S-video was extremely common till just a few years ago and could be seen on the back of most older DVD players all the way up till around 2010.

[@CollinBaillie]

@@aegisofhonor but, obscure where? SCART was hardly obscure in Europe and the UK. Heck we even had some exposure in Australia. But in the US it was and probably still obscure to most people.

[@Goststriker]

Interesting about the 13W3 connector. It's in the exact format for the windshield anti-ice (main power) plug on a Textron (Cessna) Citation Mustang jet. If you look up a datasheet on mouser (P/N: DAA3W3PK87F0) the diagram looks exactly the same. Only difference is that the 3 shielded RGB plugs are a 10 AWG pin to carry the current.

[@KatTheFoxtaur]

Ooh, interesting to hear you mention HDBase-T! I'm actually using Extron DTP myself in my home theater setup (the photo at 2:50 looks like an Extron switcher device). With the switching equipment in my basement server rack, and 4-way HDMI distribution amp, DTP allowed me to connect the my projector and all the TVs in my house to a common signal feed, simply by running Cat6 cables to each TV, and having DTP Rx 230's on the back of each screen.

[@DETERNET]

As a broadcast engineer I love this episode

[@masterdoge17]

yeah

[@raccoon2276]

As a schizophrenic I am in obsolete pain

[@JamieRowlandthejamieusrowlando]

12G SDI & SFP Fibre is god tier.

[@juri14111996]

but i realy misses sdi (and the new smtpe fiber standart)

[@JBurridge06]

I only started using HDMI about 5 years ago. Before then Scart was all I knew. I still refer to HDMI as a ‘Scart Lead’ by accident sometimes lol.

[@djalasdair4984]

I always liked the DVI cable - as it included VGA as well as digital. Other noteworthy video connectors that I can think of SVGA / CGA / EGA and going further there's a couple of coaxial standards too.

[@asicdathens]

SCART connectors were so common in Greece, that you could buy ( and still can) unsoldered connectors of all types from your local electronics store . M/F case mount / PCB mount / right angle / for making cables etc

[@SortOfPurple]

As a uk fella, scart was an amazing thing. Perfect RGB picture for all the crappy pal conversions we got.

[@fungo6631]

If you had a Megadrive you could just fiddle with the region jumper.

[@Max2700_]

I remember the Scart, here in Spain we called it "Euroconector", you could translate it to Universal Connector and oh boy, that brings up memories with VHS

[@capralmarines4043]

That's funny, we've called it "Euroconnector" in Poland too! After translation of course.

[@Max2700_]

@@capralmarines4043 Lol, didn't know that xD

[@Remington510]

Yep. I come from Poland and I know it as EURO. Also, RCA was often called "cinch" /sɪntʃ/

[@Deses]

El Eutoconector fue lo mejor. ❤️

[@Wolfy_80]

Scart/Euroconector is a common name for them

[@therealcrisis8439]

Every time I see the amount of different Connection Cables/types we had for Printers and all kinds of different Peripheral Devices back in the Day (and remember the Difficulties setting them up in Windows...), I'm really happy about the existence of USB once again.

[@mateuszkryszkiewicz1386]

In Poland many people call SCART: EUROZŁĄCZE, what stands for EURO-CONNECTOR.

[@lassi360]

Ah yes Scart my TV still has a Scart connection on the back

[@doublej42]

I’d love to see a version of this talking about BNC and fiber channel. You know all the stuff you probably use there.

[@AndrewFremantle]

If he can hunt down specimens it'd be cool to see the cable/connectors and fittings for 10BASE-2 side-by-side with 10BASE-5

[@sleepysmiler]

i came here to comment BNC. Locking connectors are some of my favorite (speakon being my favorite for sound)

[@theonly5001]

@@sleepysmiler BNC, Speakon, XLR, PowerCon, EtherCon, OpticalCon, Fiberfox, Socapex, Harting. Basically everything that locks into Place and can take a beating. I loce that.

[@giovanniferraro3557]

As Italian born in late 80s I grow up with the scart connector! Almost all console from 90s had a RCA to scart adapter...

[@dimapopov141]

I love the scart connector, because now its cheap and really simple to solder to it. I use it in my DIYs, like a remote front panel from my build-in pc

[@archlinuxrussian]

I still use RF every so often for my NES 😂 it gives off that *feel* of old school console gaming. Also shoutout for S-Video!

[@raddysurrname7944]

yeah i wanted to shoutout s-video as well

[@chrismannik]

+1

[@thedude5040]

Svideo looks looks better than RCA. I use it on my N64

[@LRM12o8]

Me too, I've plugged two R/F switches together to connect digital cable TV/Radio and my NES and SNES to my TV through the antenna port. The fact that it works perfectly on my 2019 OLED TV is absolutely amazing incredibly cool to me! It's also quite convenient,to just have to switch channels rather than input and not to have switch the input on my sound system for my old consoles :)

[@CollinBaillie]

Also mistakenly known as the S-VHS plug. Must have become popular during the S-VHS days.

[@SarpErsoy]

I'm Turkish and I still use Scart on my little CRT television. It was, and still way popular

[@cetinkaya_metal]

Scart zamanı.

[@SarpErsoy]

@@cetinkaya_metal scart adamdır

[@manmeme4136]

that last releases of the xbox 360 came with a cable that was standard RCA on one end and an audio jack on the other for video, you can use an HDMI cable. one thing i figured out was you could plug headphones into the port and have working audio, you just couldn't change it (no my knowledge) and for those wondering, i have no clue if i could use a mic in that port for online as i never had xbox live at the time and most people were on the xbox one

[@fludzone1]

While it was a (somewhat) common computer interface (especially on Apple devices), it is less widely known that Firewire / i.Link / IEEE-1394 was used for transporting compressed SD and HD video signals between video devices. This is how I was able to record and play back ISDB-T and ISDB-S programs on D-VHS deck and RCA Scenium HDD deck from/to my (JDM) Sony TV circa 2005-2010. In the U.S., some cable boxes supported Firewire for a period of time if I remember correctly. DV camcorders also supported the interface.

[@i3xt3blackeagle]

For me SCART was as used at the time as HDMI is being used right now (and idk why, but most of the people I know we called it "Euroconnector")

[@ujiltromm7358]

In my country it's most often called "la prise Péritel", but a lot of TVs ship with "SCART" as the source name for that connector.

[@principals16842]

I remember seeing a lot of 13W3 on old Sun workstations (late 90s, I think). BNC would be another interesting connector to feature. Thank you as ever for a great video, Anthony. I admire your retro SCART devotion!

[@bluespartan076]

They were also used on older SGI workstations and NeXTstations

[@bigbadhodad3894]

I had a Mac with the “weird VGA” cable but it was for one of those super good monochrome 1 page displays, I loved typing on that thing because it was so clear and easy to read.

[@JeffDeWitt]

At my old job we dealt with all kinds of equipment for a big blue computer manufacturer and I recall running across a SCART connector or cable and had no idea what it was. Now I know!

[@Impossiblah]

Might've been worth mentioning that Japan also used the "SCART Connector" ie physically the same 21 pin connector, but with a different pinout standard, which enthusiasts today generally refer to as JP-21 The standards are physically but not electrically compatible, so you can have a SCART setup or a JP-21 setup, but you can't mix and match

[@nslouka90]

When I was a kid someone at the video game store I was a regular at kept referring to them as SHART cables, so thats pretty much what I call them now.

[@DutchRetroGuy]

I must admit having a chuckle whenever I hear someone across from the pond call SCART 'obscure'. It was basically the standard video connector in Europe for several decades. Pretty much every single TV, DVD player, VCR, etc came with one or more connectors for it until well after 2000. Many of the HD and even 4K TV's sold here still offer a way to connect up SCART equipment. Some retail stores still stock the cables to this day, even though HD TV's have been the standard for around 15 years now. That's how ubiquitous it was ;)

[@Cracks094]

Man opening up with SCART really made me feel old, that stuff was literally everywhere when i was a kid.

[@Schubeltutz]

Ahhhh the good old days when we moved around the dvd player with scart around the house.

[@rafaelpernil]

Fun fact: In spain we call SCART "Euroconector"

[@Testyclair]

The old parallel scuzzy connector always got me excited way back when.

[@CrocoDylianVT]

0:11 I love how from any possible RCA cable, instead of just a regular one that has the same conectors at both sides he decided to pull off a Wii RCA cable

[@madgebishop5409]

i remember the mind blowing jump in picture quality when i upgraded my Amiga 500 from the shoddy tv modulator to a SCART connector...

[@khx73]

Similar story.. for me it was the jump from Amiga 500 on a tv to an actual 1084 monitor via RGB connector. WOW

[@URTonemanclan]

13w3 was popular on Sun Workstations too... used it on 20" Sony Trinitrons that you needed two people to carry

[@dycedargselderbrother5353]

I associate it with Sun, too. I was surprised Apple was the example.

[@evergreengamer5767]

have one of theses cables setting around here recognized the Sun symbol but never knew what the connector was

[@jonathanbuzzard6648]

It was mainly Unix workstations that used 13W3, Sun just being more common that other manufacturers, but SGI, digital, HP and IBM Unix workstations all having them. Never seen a Mac with one ever.

[@abelgerli]

I got the 110lbs 24" Sun CRT also with the trinitron tube. It hurt my back badly after I carried it alone from the 3rd floor into my car. Never bend over this monster in a tight space. But it was cheap as a used display because nearly no one knew 13w3 connector. But with an adapter I was fine.

[@URTonemanclan]

@@abelgerli LOL sweet -- I distinctly remember one time we needed to move one to a demo... in winter... we were so worried it would shatter going out into freezing air we wrapped it in a blanket and pre-heated the van...

[@ronpeacock9939]

I remember the 13w3 connectors. They were also used with Sun Workstations in the 90's. The monitor that I used to use with it could probably have doubled for a 40 megaton bomb is dropped from the sky... the dam thing was hit by a forklift in the warehouse.... barely scratched the case...

[@Subgunman]

As an American living in the EU SCART is in use still on some equipment. That second connector 13W3 was used by industrial electronics, I even had a Briefcase mobile phone in the seventies that used it to connect the mobile phone to the external antenna via the single coaxial connector while the rest of the pins provided power and a link to an external control head up front in the vehicle.

[@--2]

Oh… Seeing Scart again is just SOO nostalgic! Remember plugging my old STB into my old Panasonic TV using that thing

[@--2]

@Techquikie, Instructions unclear, pressed report button

[@andreaswil7799]

POV: You’ve been scrolling for an hour trying to find a comment not mentioning SCART

[@ragequit4537]

@Techquckie THATS A FAKE PROFILE ITS NOT MARKED

[@kindlin]

@@ragequit4537 I want to meet the person that would call that number wanting tech support. Like, really. If you're able to scroll around through a comment section, this shouldn't be something one falls for.

[@kindlin]

So true... Literally every comment. EDIT: Success! I found one talking about ethernet. _Amazing_

[@ragequit4537]

@@kindlin hopefully

[@randomdude6827]

nah. just a new seconds

[@horkoser]

In Spain SCART was the standard cable for connecting DVR, consoles, satellites and even the first digital sintonizers (DVB). In fact, it was mainly known for all people as euroconnector. I still have some spares at home.

[@madmatt2024]

1:44 My friend has an old SGI Indigo2 that uses this connector. I remember him searching for a monitor compatible with "sync on green" so he could actually fire it up and play with it.

[@WannaDJ]

I see Anthony I click.

[@nikodem123asdf]

In europe scart was about as popular as hdmi is now in all honesty it's kinda like it's analogue equivalent. Rgb picture from them is still really nice if you can upscale it correctly or have a compatible crt monitor. One of the cool things it did was telling the display whether it should display something in widescreen or 4x3, very handy for anamorphic resolutions.

[@stephensnell5707]

You prune,CRT doesn't even exist anymore,it was killed off in the early 2000's

[@nikodem123asdf]

@@stephensnell5707 gurl what are you being so salty about, you not a boo-boo your toe?

[@virtue3]

His voice is the most calming thing about this pandemic lol.

[@panos1b]

I don’t know I really loved SCART it was so good. Always worked, was on everything, had nice angled cables, looked great, cables and connectors were reparable with a soldering iron. What else can I say

[@TheOriginalNCDV]

I remember those 13W3 connectors from my SGI and Sun workstation days...

[@nosville22]

hell yea, this is a subject I am interested in too bad none of the weird DVI relatives made it in, these tend to get wild

[@MichaKersloot]

Loved to see DVI too.

[@shrimp_on_internet]

DVI was really cool

[@LaDeXi]

@@shrimp_on_internet Was? It's still widely used.

[@mohsh3946]

@@shrimp_on_internet lol, was?! I'm still using a DVI monitor😆😂 Well, I say still... I got a good deal getting it second hand😅

[@LittleWhole]

@Techquikie This is a scam, not the real Techquickie, DO NOT contact this number.

[@m1dnightdev]

I'd really like to see a DE-9. I'm not really an expert on these, but my decade old surround sound setup has one of these on the subwoofer and it connects to the amplifier.

[@scrolllock9274]

A lot of households in Greece still have the SCART because some years back we changed from analog to digital tv and converters or decoders were needed,. These decoders connect to older televisions with the SCART connector, newer models have the decoder built into them.

[@stephensnell5707]

Also,you will find even modern televisions still have a SCART connection

[@faqihaldiannoor1266]

I love how Anthony just explained some relics to us and show us what is it for and how to use it

[@Raaaphael]

Plugin in the SCART connector blindly wasn't an easy task! I always had to take the VHS player out of the shelf to plug it in. I still have a few of those around in the house.

[@Sand2Go]

Not that unplugging usually is that simple either if the ports have not been used that much.

[@Raaaphael]

@@Sand2Go So true!

[@6XGate]

The main one missed is BNC ended coaxial cable. Which are used in professional monitors for carrying composite back in the day to 4K and even 8K HD signals with newer SDI protocols. The retrogaming scene usually has to use those to connect their SCART boxes to their monitors.

[@ibrachaka8727]

Scart felt mostly bad but when you get it connected on the first try... man the satisfaction!