"Peritelevision" = SCART?

It works for me.

Does the link have unusual characters in it? The above % codes make symbols for me, and A with an accent and a copyright symbol. Wikipedia then doesn't know what page I'm requesting.

Yes some equipment didn't do RGB, quite annoying.

Quite useful the pin that tells the TV to change input when you play a DVD though.

There was antipiracy in analogue - activision or something. Easy to remove with a signal "cleaner".

Wrong.

But he's just trolling as usual, so I won't explain.

-- Richard

Plenty of connectors around then with much denser pin count. The SCART was probably designed for cheapness.

Paignton 159 series, for instance. Much use din thn BBC.

I'm sure.

There were higher density connectors (in various fields) around when SCART was introduced. SCART was simply cheap and easy to assemble and a standard at a time there wasn't really one. As connectors go, to put it mildly, it isn't very good. Having said that, given they tend not to be plugged /unplugged that often etc., they did the job.

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They were really easy to wire up your own too, for example to distribute= the output of a Sky box to several TVs.

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Said the Duchess of Windsor at tea, "Young man, do you fart when you pee?" I replied with some wit "Do you belch when you s*it?" I think that was one up to me.