Wanted: Amiga RGB - SCART cable

[spirantho]

SCART is a great idea that never caught on outside Europe for some reason.

What's perhaps not apparent in the above diagram is that one connector has information for:

Composite video in AND out
RGB video (very good quality)
Chroma/Luma video (also pretty good quality)
Stereo sound in AND out
Signal switching (so for instance a VCR can tell the TV when it wants attention, so for instance you can turn your VCR on and if the TV is set up right, the TV will turn on automatically).
... and also various other stuff I can't remember.

Incidentally, if you want to run a SCART cable on an A2000 or A1500 then you'll need to rewire it to use the +12V line instead of the +5V line (which isn't connected in these Amigas on the RGB port). SCART has tolerance from about 3V to 15V or something.

They're really a very good idea, especially as you can chain things up: for instance,
Satellite Decrypter
to
Satellite tuner
to
VCR
to
TV
to
another TV.

All connected by SCART cables (most peripherals have at least 2 connectors).

[spirantho]

Nope, not really.

However, I would suggest connecting the Amiga to the first connector and the TV to the second, as usually you should have it in a logical sequence (some dodgy peripherals expect this), i.e. input (Amiga) into VCR into TV.

Unfortunately, while the standard is fine, not every appliance follows the standard very well...

If switching connectors doesn't work, maybe between us we can find something else wrong, but if it works with your TV it's probably your VCR that's misbehaving... or you're using it wrong.