Official RGB Scart Cables

I can sell you my (SCART) TV but shipping is gonna be a bitch :smt043

 

I suppose the whole "every-TV-with-RGB-inputs" thing is one good thing about living in PAL Land. Heehee, no smelly old Amiga/ST monitors for us!

I could make loads from selling proper-sized TVs with RGB inputs to The Converted in the US. Then again, looking at delivery rates, I question the profit margin...

Even with a 21" set you're talking at least 20kg, and with the cheapest assest Economy shipping I could find (18-24 days), it still quoted 70 Euro from Dublin to New York, and it will porbably be kicked half-way there/in flames on arrival at that price!

 

And then you need a step-up converter, a very good quality one for a TV.

To be honest, those in the US who care about RGB would be better off getting a Japanese TV. More or less right voltage, NTSC and should have some form of RGB. That, or stick your consoles in an arcade cab :smt023

 

Thanks but no thanks

I've actually looked on multiple occasions for Japanese TVs, no dice. BTW, RGB is far rarer in Japan than it is even in the US.. Many Americans use RGB, just not at home :\

Sadly the best solution for Americans IMO is a RGB/YUV transcoder box since every new TV here has component.

What I'd like now is a 20"+ 15.75-75+KHz HD broadcast monitor. Then I can start playing PAL only games natively in PAL Too bad I could buy two plasmas for one new Sony broadcast :X

 

Your best bet if you want PAL would be to import.

From the UK, you can get a 21" TV from £100-120. Then anything up from there, you can even get widescreens quite cheap now. If you found somewhere that'd ship direct, you'd save yourself having to pay VAT (17.5%).

In fact, here is a sub £100 20" TV


For a 21kg TV, prices by parcelforce are:

Economy £102.65 (28 - 30 days)
Standard £122.55 (5 - 8 days)
Datapost £139.75 (3 days guaranteed)

Standard and Datapost offer automatic insurance up to £150, there is none with Economy.

As for whether you can ship a TV, what with the vacuum in the tube, I don't know, but looking at the prohibitions list, I don't see why not.

 

Australia use the same telly as sold in UK... :-D
some even came with UK plug and local distributor throw in the adapter...

 

Ooh, I forgot!

http://www.walkabouttravelgear.com/reverse.htm

Need a step-up transformer too! And if you got UK over European, that converter thingy so you can plug it in!

Hehe, that's quite funny dj, but don't you use a different type of PAL? We use PAL I.

 

most of telly I saw has PAL-I, PAL-II, SECAM, NTSC, NTSC-? and bunch of others... basically ours will sync with anything... :smt023
so far my SONY Wega freebie hasn't refused anything I throw at it... starts from MegaDrive...

 

I'll disagree with that.
I recently bought myself an arcade cab. Unfortunately its minus the monitor. I've since been searching every department store/pawnbroker for a 19/20/21" TV with RGBS SCART. No luck. The only ones I've found are HDTV monstrocities that wouldn't fit my entertainment unit, let alone my cabaret.
If we did/do get EU TVs, I'd be having more luck finding SCART TVs. :smt009


...I've also heard rumours that taking a TV from one hemisphere to the other will cause the screen to screw up as well. Don't really know about that one...

 

sorry mate I was referring to those European brands... :-D
also when my old man bought Pioneer RPTV few years back it has UK plug and the manual was for UK as well with single sheet for Australian user...

 

lameboy, you'd be much better off getting a real arcade monitor, of whatever size is supposed to fit your cabinet, if you're thinking of putting a TV in it. They're much better :smt023

True, an arcade chassis is virtually the same, but not with all the extra crap in a TV. There's a reason why arcade monitors still usually look better than a TV!

http://www.zax.com.au/spare_parts/monitor-chassis.html

You can pick up a bargain on ebay often in the way of monitors, especially if you've a good knowledge of TV/monitor repair!

 

And a pretty big one at that - a modern 21" TV is going to be at least 50W, and if it's an old piece-o-crap, about 150W!

Yes, Australia uses PAL B/G whereas the UK, Ireland, South Africa and most other ex-commonwealth countries use PAL-I. Australia had to be different ^_^. Though saying this *most* modern sets are multi-region anyway, and none of this PAL crap even matters when you're talking about AV. With composite/s-video, there's either PAL or NTSC - nothing else! The different forms of PAL only state different audio sub-carriers and bandwidths - nothing to be concerned about outside of RF signals. And anyway, we're talking about RGB. There's no colour systems to be dealt with at all! There's either 50Hz or 60Hz RGB! Ad that's the beauty of it - I have 4 TV's in my house, and not one of them can do NTSC, but I can still play all my NTSC games and DVDs...

That's true from what I've heard. NOT A GOOD IDEA unless you know your stuff about CRTs!