... most forms of signal?
Bit of background. For video capture purposes, we're buying a couple of TVs for my office. We're not bothered about their display quality, in fact poor quality is better if cheaper in this case as we're not really going to watch them.
We plan to use them in the process of capturing video from external devices - consoles, old cameras, all sorts of devices - so we want a TV which can take inputs from most things we can throw at it.
So HDMI's fine. Also no need for RF input; I don't believe we'd be capturing from the Megadrive for example.
Assume I wanted something which can take HDMI along with...
The Sega Saturn
The Dreamcast
The PS2/1
The Xbox
The GameCube
The N64
A range of camcorders and video devices which use SCART and 3-phono outputs
... All with their out-of-the-box or at least easy-to-obtain cables. No modding.
The video is to be kept for reference, not really for aesthetic quality.
So what am I looking for with TVs? I honestly don't understand how those older inputs work. What's the difference between RGB SCART and just SCART? What's S-VHS? What connections can go through an adaptor and which ones can't?
Bit of background. For video capture purposes, we're buying a couple of TVs for my office. We're not bothered about their display quality, in fact poor quality is better if cheaper in this case as we're not really going to watch them.
We plan to use them in the process of capturing video from external devices - consoles, old cameras, all sorts of devices - so we want a TV which can take inputs from most things we can throw at it.
So HDMI's fine. Also no need for RF input; I don't believe we'd be capturing from the Megadrive for example.
Assume I wanted something which can take HDMI along with...
The Sega Saturn
The Dreamcast
The PS2/1
The Xbox
The GameCube
The N64
A range of camcorders and video devices which use SCART and 3-phono outputs
... All with their out-of-the-box or at least easy-to-obtain cables. No modding.
The video is to be kept for reference, not really for aesthetic quality.
So what am I looking for with TVs? I honestly don't understand how those older inputs work. What's the difference between RGB SCART and just SCART? What's S-VHS? What connections can go through an adaptor and which ones can't?
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