SCART

SCART (from Syndicat des Constructeurs d'Appareils Radiorécepteurs et Téléviseurs, Radio and Television Receiver Manufacturers' Association) is a French-originated accepted and associated 21-pin adapter for abutting acoustic (AV) accessories together. It is additionally accepted as Péritel (especially in France, area the appellation SCART is about unknown), 21-pin EuroSCART (Sharp's business appellation for an attack to bazaar the adapter in the Asian region), Euroconector1 or EuroAV. In America, addition name for SCART is EIA Multiport (an EIA interface).

In Europe, SCART is the best accepted adjustment of abutting acoustic accessories together, and has become a accepted adapter for such accessories (even added so than the phono plug); it is far beneath accepted abroad in the world. Designed to backpack analog standard-definition content, SCART is acceptable anachronistic with the addition of fresh agenda standards such as HDMI, which can backpack high-definition agreeable and multichannel audio. Yet HDMI does body on some concepts originally developed for SCART; for example, HDMI-CEC is acquired from SCART's AV.link

Origins

The SCART adapter aboriginal appeared on television sets in 1977. It became compulsatory on all fresh television sets awash in France starting from January 1980.23

Before SCART came, customer TV sets did not action a standardised way of putting in signals added than RF antenna connectors, and alike antenna connectors differed amid countries. Assuming added connectors alike existed, accessories fabricated by assorted companies could accept altered and adverse standards. For example, a calm VCR could achievement a blended video arresting through a German-originated DIN-style connector, an American-originated RCA connector, an SO239 connector, or a BNC connector

Usage

The SCART arrangement was advised to abridge abutting audio-video accessories (including TVs, VCRs, DVD players and bold consoles). To accomplish this it aggregate all of the alternation arresting access into a distinct cable with a different adapter that fabricated incorrect access about impossible.

The signals agitated by SCART accommodate both blended and RGB (with blended synchronisation) video, stereo audio input/output and agenda signalling. The accepted was continued at the end of the 1980s to abutment the fresh S-Video signals. In addition, a TV can be alive from standby approach or switched to video approach through a SCART connector.

Daisy chaining

SCART is bi-directional apropos accepted blended video and analog audio. A television set will about accelerate the antenna audio and video signals to the SCART sockets all the time and watch for alternate signals, to affectation and carbon them instead. This allows "transparent" set-top boxes, after any tuner, which aloof "hook" and pre-process the television signals. This affection is acclimated for analog pay TV like Canal Plus and was in the accomplished acclimated for adaptation teletext.

Direct connections

As the pins for Audio and (Composite) Video use the aforementioned pins on "up" and "down" connectors (and crave a crosslinked cable), it is additionally accessible to affix two accessories anon to anniversary added after advantageous absorption to the blazon of the socket.

However, this no best works back S-Video signals are used. As beeline links (RGB Red and Dejected up) were re-purposed to backpack chrominance information, the S-Video pinouts are altered for "up" and "down" SCART connectors.4 Further, they are generally not absolutely implemented.

Paying absorption to the blazon of atrium is capital back administration basic RGB/YPBPR/S-video. Damage can be acquired to accessories afield affiliated as follows:

abutting SCART 1 ("up") from one accessory to SCART 1 ("up") of addition accessory back both SCARTs are configured for RGB/YPBPR/S-video-up. Pins 7, 11 and 15 are outputs.

abutting SCART 2 ("down") from one accessory to SCART 2 ("down") of addition accessory back both SCARTs are configured for S-video-down. Pin 7 is an output.

abutting SCART 1 ("up") from a accessory configured RGB/YPBPR, to SCART 2 ("down") of addition accessory configured with S-video-down. Pin 7 is an output.

Damaging alone pin 7 may aftereffect in chicken images, due to the missing blue. Likewise damaging pin 11 or 15 may aftereffect in amethyst or blue/green images, due to the missing blooming or red apparatus (respectively). Back application S-video, damaging pin 7 or 15 may aftereffect in black-white images due to the missing blush basic ("down" and "up" respectively). Similarly, damaging pins 7 and 15 (PB and PR) while abrogation pin 11 (Y) absolute may aftereffect in black-white images back application YPBPR. Damaging added than one of these pins may aftereffect in accumulated effects.