Dear Christoph,
thanks for your answer and saving me from trouble. I moved your answer inline.
Am Mittwoch, den 25.02.2009, 13:25 +0100 schrieb C.Scheeder:
Paul Menzel schrieb:
Dear readers,
I am planning to set up a low budget VDR using the VGA2SCART patches [1]. Therefore I need a VGA2SCART cable. The distance between the VDR and the CRT TV will be probably 5 meters.
There are some howtos on the WWW on how to build a cable yourself [2]. But I am not experienced in soldering, so I have the following questions.
- Are VGA2SCART cables you can buy also suitable and do you have
experiences what manufactures produce good quality cables?
Searching the WWW I found the following offers but no comparison or review about the quality.
http://www.amazon.de/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=vga+scart+kabel&tag=googhyd... http://www.kauflux.de/?id=FROOGLE&_artnr=8429706 http://shop.strato.de/epages/61223614.sf/?ObjectPath=/Shops/61223614/Product... http://www.google.de/products?hl=de&q=vga+scart+kabel&um=1&ie=UT... http://www.supernature-forum.de/allgemeine-computerfragen/63171-grafik-gibt-... http://forum.fachinformatiker.de/hardware/122150-vga-scart-kabel-tv.html
inakustik claims to have high quality cables.
http://www.in-akustik.com/de/KABEL/Home-Video/VGA-Scartkabel.htm
as far as i read, all these are kabels to connect a scart-OUTPUT to an VGA-INPUT. (scart-out of receiver to vga-in of a beamer/lcd-tv) These cables are useless for connecting a VGA-card to a monitor, as they do not handle the vga-sync-singals correct. If you use them, you probably won't get a picture and perhaps will fry your tv and/or vga-card.....
Does anyone know of a shop (in Europe, better Germany) selling the correct cables?
- Are there any disadvantages in buying these cables?
a) I would guess, that most of the cables do not have plugs for audio next to the VGA plug, so that I will need to either use an amplifier or have to modify the cable and solder some wires to the SCART-plug.
¹ With around 10 € for a 5 meter cable they do not seem to be that much expensive.
[1] http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/2008-July/017347.html [2] http://www.vdr-portal.de/board/thread.php?postid=742945#post742945
Thanks,
Paul