"Peritelevision" = SCART?

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Anyone else ever seen a TV marked "peritelevision" instead of "SCART"?

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[Brian Gaff]

Peritel is the original spec and some of those used a modified Din connector. The oold Amstrad version of the Spectrum computer had a peritel port on it it was a din. When the french inventedthe scart they used the same electrical specs, but added to it and called it Scart.

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----- Original Message ----- From: "James Wilkinson Sword" Newsgroups: alt.usage.english,alt.home.repair,uk.d-i-y Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2017 4:39 PM Subject: "Peritelevision" = SCART?

Anyone else ever seen a TV marked "peritelevision" instead of "SCART"?

[James Wilkinson Sword]

So peritelevision refers to the electrical spec?

[charles]

As I remember it, the connector was mandatory on French TVs to allow for a decoder. Peritel simply stood for peripheral tv connetor.

Brian's comment "It was a din" implies the German's also adopted it as a standard. DIN being the same as BS. A quick Google showns that SCART was the French equivalent of BREMA. - a truely international connector. It's biggest drawback was the lack of a latch.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Explain "decoder". Like a Sky box?

I'm surprised the French would make something mandatory like that, Germany or Switzerland perhaps....

And that it the thick cable was big enough to pull it out. And because the cable came out the side, it was 50% likely to be on the wrong side.

[charles]

France embarked on some analogue channels being "scrambled" in someway. A decoder was needed to view them. A payment card could be inserted in the decoder.

Well, they did. Probably to protect home industry. They were good at that.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

So the SCART was used as input AND output simultaneously?

Sounds more like something America would do.

[charles]

Yes.

France was very good at it, too.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Interesting. Why not put the signal from the aerial into the decoder, then through to the TV?

[charles]

If you fed the aerial into the decoder, it would need a complete receiver.

[Peter Duncanson [BrE]]

I haven't seen one, but I know "Peritel(ivision)" as another name for SCART.

SCART (from Syndicat des Constructeurs d'Appareils Radiorécepteurs et Téléviseurs ? Radio and Television Receiver Manufacturers' Association) is a French-originated standard and associated 21-pin connector for connecting audio-visual (AV) equipment. It is also known as Péritel (or Peritelevision) (especially in France), 21-pin EuroSCART (Sharp's marketing term in Asia), Euroconector,[1] EuroAV or EXT. In America, another name is EIA Multiport (an EIA interface).

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Seems to work in the UK. Although perhaps tech had advanced a bit by then.

[Mr Pounder Esquire]

Why are you feeding the Hucker troll? He is laughing at you.

[charles]

Oh, it would work, just cost lot more.

[Brian Reay]

Peritel connector is another name for a SCART connector, it is used more in France- or was.

I would expect it to be rather old hat these days.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Indeed, found it on the back of an old telly sat in my attic. Not sure if I can even freecycle it, might have to stick it in the blue box.

[Mr Pounder Esquire]

[Graham.]

[Peter Duncanson [BrE]]

Because at the time that was a small as a connector could be made with that number of pins. My understanding is that here have been advances in metallurgy which have made it possibly to have much smaller, but still reliable, springy, contacts.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Er.... I think you corrupted that link.