On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 05:39:44PM -0400, Ethan O'Toole via cctalk wrote: [...] > The early plasma TVs usually had BNC RGBHV inputs and such. They could take > VGA in very easily. I'm pretty sure a PC would have been way easier to deal > with and could reach much higher resolutions... without needing a DB-23 > connector :-)
Everything had RGB on this side of the Pond. There was a protectionist decree that all TVs sold in France would have a SCART socket, but of course this just meant that pan-European models sprouted SCART sockets and the French TV industry was back to square one. Old standards never die, and the TV I bought in 2018 has a SCART socket and would quite probably decode SECAM but I have no SECAM sources to test it (and they'll even be rare in France these days). DB-23 to SCART cables were (and still are) readily-available from anywhere that has anything to do with the Amiga. Sometimes they had sawn-down DB-25 plugs since DB-23 wasn't exactly a common connector even in the Amiga's heyday.
