HDMI/DVI to scart?

[marc1024]

Dont know where to put this but is there any trusted brands that make DVI or HDMI to a scart connection?

My 42" pansonic plasma tv is veryvery old and has no HDMI or DVI. There are DVI to scarts but are mostly chinese crap.

Anyone have any suggestions?

 

[marc1024]

I havn't seen any cable's or adapters that do it, only small converter box's that can take dvi+hdmi in one side and output scart the other for around £40.

Edit: Does the TV have RGB phono inputs with Left/Righ Sound? I've seen a lot of hdmi/dvi to phono's!?

yes it does. but i dont know how that works!

 

[marc1024]

Since SCART is limited to PAL TV format 720*576 (plus maybe NTSC or Seacm depending on the TV) it would be hard to tell a good from a bad output. Doesn't your graphics card have a S-video output?

yes it does i think. is that the small round connection beside a DVI? i have a 460gtx which doesnt have it but i have a card that does.

 

[marc1024]

It's a round connector around 1cm in diameter with lots of pins.

can easily get a card with one of them. But i dunno if my tv has that support, will have to check sometme. all i know there is 1 scart connection left, and those RBG connections which i know nothing about.

 

[marc1024]

Does your t.v. not even have a VGA input? I used to have a tevion non HD plasma and that had a VGA input and that was many moons ago.

nope

 

[marc1024]

Some of the old Plasma could accept RGBHV directly. Combining the sync is more than being handy with an iron. There were ready made RGBHV to RGBs/RGsB synch adapters around in the day. I'm not suggesting he'll get anything like HD, I'm suggesting that he remain in the analogue domain for any likely solution. Didn't HD4850's have encoder chips for ED/SD TV over component? OP, see if you can determine the type and maximum resolution/interlace/frequency the 'multi' input can handle and work back from there. Or personally I'd just use it as an excuse for an upgrade.

just found out the name of the tv. Its a Panasonic TH-42PX25U. there seems to be 2 models, one has HD and other is very basic. Cant find the basic one (mine) but i will keep looking.
when i find spec edit this post