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SCART is another disgusting connector that European readers will be familiar with. I like the idea of combining multiple video formats with sound as a predecessor to HDMI, but the least they could have done was put a decent D-sub or the Amphenol-style ribbon connector.

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I recently got pretty heavily into SCART connectors because of retro video game stuff (the most common rgb connector you can use with older consoles is scart) and after a few months I've thrown it all away in exchange for special component cables instead because scart is just terribad in terms of staying connected.

Can't count the number of times I've had colour production go wonky just because of a tiny bump of the scart cable.

Connected a SCART TV and STB when I first moved to France. The cable was stiff, heavy, and unwieldy and it neve quite fit once everything was pushed back into the cabinet.

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