HDMI to Scart

[Skyedriver]

My young son has a load of stuff on a Nexus and a HP stream that he likes to watch, mainly DVDs I've converted.
He's going on holiday over the summer and I think the old TV only has a Scart socket. Is there any way he can watch the lap top stuff which has an HDMI output on the Scart only TV. I have heard the converters aren't the best.
Cheers

[varsas]

Not really.

HDMI and SCART are very different, HDMI being digital and SCART being analogue. I don't suppose the Laptop has VGA (a smallish oblong connector, usually blue, with 15 pins in it) has it? VGA is analogue so easier to adapt to SCART.

Otherwise you would have to get an active converter to go from digital HDMI to analogue SCART.

My experience with plugging computers into analogue TV's is not good, the picture quality is generally poor and you get problems with the display not lining up etc.

[andrewrob]

I use these in the drones I have for taking HDMI at 1080p from a Sony A6300 into composite https://www.amazon.co.uk/Digital-Composite-Convert... I've not tried running it into a large TV so not sure what the quality would be like but looks ok on my 8 inch screens. They just need USB power which you could get from the XBOX itself

[marshalla]

andrewrob said:

I use these in the drones I have for taking HDMI at 1080p from a Sony A6300 into composite https://www.amazon.co.uk/Digital-Composite-Convert... I've not tried running it into a large TV so not sure what the quality would be like but looks ok on my 8 inch screens. They just need USB power which you could get from the XBOX itself

I've used the same converter with a Chromecast. The picture quality isn't brilliant, but it's OK for analogue. As long as the SCART input can take the composite signal - or the TV has its own composite input it should be fine.

I wouldn't recommend using a HDMI to VGA adapter as the resulting resolution can still be too much for a TV to handle.

[deckster]

If they're already on the laptop, why doesn't he, erm, watch them on the laptop?

[Skyedriver]

Lap top only a 13" screen, and limited capacity (can add a microcard though)
Was just thinking: connect to the 26" tele would be better.
And I can add a few films for wife too, she cannot see the small screen.

Going to take the DVD player up I think.

They are there for 5 weeks. They've never been without one of "lifes essentials" for that long.

Can you imagine the Skybox when they get back too? It's pretty full to start with.

This is why I'm always on Pistonheads - cannot get near the TV

[DocJock]

I have one of these,

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00NAT0W2Y/ref=sr_ph?i...

As said already, picture quality is not great.

[Skyedriver]

Back again...
So if a DVD player has a HDMI out and the old TV only has a Scart, I'm not going to get a decent pic either?

[RobDickinson]

Skyedriver said:

Back again...
So if a DVD player has a HDMI out and the old TV only has a Scart, I'm not going to get a decent pic either?

No.

HDMI is all digital
SCART - whilst only a cable/connection standard is all analogue, and can cope with (SD) composite, rgb and svideo signals only.

You need a converter for anything. Frankly its time to buy a new TV.

[Skyedriver]

RobDickinson said:

Skyedriver said:

Back again...
So if a DVD player has a HDMI out and the old TV only has a Scart, I'm not going to get a decent pic either?

No.

HDMI is all digital
SCART - whilst only a cable/connection standard is all analogue, and can cope with (SD) composite, rgb and svideo signals only.

You need a converter for anything. Frankly its time to buy a new TV.

Hi Rob
Agree with replace the TV BUT it's in a house we have for sale up in the north of Scotland. When/if sold we'll not need it a new TV at all. We only call up there for holidays and the like. (No TV Licence as no aerial, no signal and no Sky as the dish fell off the wall).

THanks

[legzr1]

People are taking perfectly fine DVD players to the tip because they don't have HDMI outputs.

Get on eBay, gumtree, freecycle etc and source a DVD player with scart for free/ £6 - hell, I have a couple in the garage and you'd be welcome to one if packaging and posting wasn't such a ball ache.

Just leave it when the house is sold.

[Skyedriver]

Seen new ones for £24 so yes, just get one for up there

And positively: after 18 months on the market we have actually had two offers today...
Not high enough but at least offers, the place has been like Kings Cross, the number of viewers through the place

[Tom_C76]

Skyedriver said:

Seen new ones for £24 so yes, just get one for up there

And positively: after 18 months on the market we have actually had two offers today...
Not high enough but at least offers, the place has been like Kings Cross, the number of viewers through the place

Where in N Yorks are you OP? I'll be in Whitby over Christmas and have a unneeded DVD with composite output you could have for a flexible beer token or two if you were anywhere local to there.

[Skyedriver]

Hi Tom, thanks for the offer but it looks like the ol' place is sold so instead of looking for an old DVD player, I am now looking to sell the old Sony TV.....and a shed load of other stuff