SCART or RCA.

In this day and age, the bean counters are trying to make (plus make money on) a universal standard. Like USB... which still sucks by the way, but after years of wasted VC Money, there's the yearlong question; Should I use SCART or RCA? To get you on the right track, let me start with a bit of history of the two. The RCA Connector got born after RCA realized the money-making potential of Combo Units in the 1930s. It was originally used as an audio cable to hook up your phonograph or a Talking Machine if You fancy? Later, the guys at RCA introduced a video cable, titled Composite Video by manufacturers. Now, fast forward to today, even when RCA is dead, their connector lives on, just like their bad grounding. Now for SCART. SCART, well also has a bit of history. Invented by the French in 1976, it was meant to simplify TV connections. SCART means Syndicat des Constructeurs d'Appareils Radiorécepteurs et Téléviseurs which I'm not even gonna attempt to pronouce. It finally killed off the DIN Connector (sort of) and went off to become a worldwide standard spreading french infuence and culture far and wide and now we all speak french and eat baguettes everyday, the end. Well, no. The Americans still held on their RCA Connectors like it was some sort of cultural heritage of theirs limiting adoption to mostly Europe. SCART has the upper hand in functions, like av.link, the ability to carry RGB signals, from your Amiga or something, and not having THAT ANNOYING GROUND BUZZ.

So What's Better?

Well, I'm not ya dad, I'm not forcing you to use one of them with the belt in my hand, each connector has its own special sauce.

PROS OF SCART

More Features
Better Ground
Can carry a better picture

CONS OF SCART

Very Bulky
Painful to step on (Tested)
Limited adoption outside of Europe

PROS OF RCA

Worldwide Adoption

Not as painful to step on

You can individually disconnect video or audio

CONS OF RCA

Bad Grounding

Less Features

Cables can be lower quality

This is my first ever blog entry on this site, so don't get angry if this article isn't the best. I found this site while browsing Yahoo! Directories and I thought I'd give it a try.