Comment on It’s 2025, and Escape From New York has just got a new VHS release
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It’s absolutely worth the trouble of locating a VHS player, and the finding a modern day television that still accepts a SCART connection.
Was this connector exclusive to France or Europe or something? Modern TVs still have RCA and even Coaxial ports, which every VCR I’ve ever seen in my life uses.
Patch@feddit.uk 1 week ago
SCART was standard here in the UK. But most VHS players also had RCA composite cables. I don’t recall any of my VCRs/DVD players ever having coax, though; that presumably wasn’t that common a standard here.
UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 1 week ago
When VCR’s first appeared, they were connected via the UHF connection. So you had to tune your TV to the VCR channel to watch anything.
I don’t remember any other connections until SCART came along. I was reading the Wiki and didn’t realise it was invented in France back in 1976. Essentially, SCART was the best connection you could have as it used RGB if available.