Modern 4K TV's with SCART ?

BoozerDawg · 14 Aug 2019 at 12:38

Looking at buying a new TV soon, but something I'm recently enjoying is playing some old games on my PS2, which currently connects to my old 50" Plasma Samsung via SCART, and actually looks pretty damn good all things considered.

Been looking at 4K TV's and not a single one of them appears to have SCART anymore (understandable I guess), which sort of sucks as hooking up a PS2 to them via an upscaler adds a stupid ammount of input lag, or I end up having to spend a small fortune on line doubler things, which i'd rather avoid.

Do any of them come with them these days?

BoozerDawg · 17 Aug 2019 at 22:29

Well I always had in my head SCART provided the best possible connection with old stuff so always went with that and thought of nothing else

But its clear now SCART is dead, unless you buy a cheapy budget Sharp TV (and who knows if thats full fat RGB). Component appears to be the only option (with the likely negative you cant play PS1 games due to unsupported resolution, but I have a PS3 for that), and I doubt I will ever notice a difference between SCART and Component anyway.

PS3 backwards compatibility is a no go, the ones that do play them are probably on their last legs thanks to YLOD. Emulation via PC, no idea where this is at if im honest, always assumed it was still not quite there.

Wouldnt have this problem if Sony werent a bunch of bumbaclots and continued back compat but it is what it is

Guess if I get really desperate I could get one of those RetroTink or OSSC things, supposed to be pretty good if a bit pricey. Did try a SCART upscaler box but the input lag was a disaster, would be fine for movies and things, not games.

Thanks gents.

BoozerDawg · 18 Aug 2019 at 14:34

Meant to say component on my current TV doesnt support the PS1's resolution over component (does on SCART), not the system itself. I can use the PS3 for PS1 games anyway as like you say, it upscales them so never have any problems there

Hopefully PS5 will bring back full back compat but who knows.

BoozerDawg · 19 Aug 2019 at 15:50

Yeah they both look to fix this exact issue, despite being the cheaper option the Tink is still over £100, but nothing else out there that can do what it does at that price anyway

When I get a new TV one of those will do the trick then, cheers