composite to component

[dave9191]

Hey guys,

I'll cut a long story short I have a annoying tv for switching input sources, so having everything running over component from my a/v reciever would be great. But my dvd player doesn't have component out, only scart/RF/composite
(I'm assuming composite is the one with yellow for video, white and red for sound).

Is there something cheap that i can get which will let me connect the dvd player to component sockets?

Thanks,

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Dave

 

[Seth=L]

I will do you one better than composite to component, how about a scart to component adapter. They are both based on RGB.

Here is a link-

http://www.svideo.com/ypbprsv1.html

here is another-

http://www.tvcables.co.uk/cgi-bin/tvcables/YUV-RGB-SCART.html?id=5U9iACTX

Scart is the best connector on the DVD player you mentioned, so that adapter would be superior to a composite to component adapter.

 

[MDS]

Composite to Component transcoding is a feature usually found on receivers but there may be an external device like a video switcher that could do it. I don't know for sure that such a switch exists but http://www.gefen.com sells all kinds of switches and I would check there first.

 

[dave9191]

scart to component adapter.

I never thought of searching for a scart to component. This will do just great. Thanks a lot

Thanks for the replies guys,

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Dave

 

[racquetman]

You could just buy a new DVD player with component video outputs. How much could one possibly cost at this point? I'm shocked that the DVD player you are using now doesn't have component!!

 

[Seth=L]

You could just buy a new DVD player with component video outputs. How much could one possibly cost at this point? I'm shocked that the DVD player you are using now doesn't have component!!

Some European countries don't use component on their DVD players. They use scart and PAL.

 

[racquetman]

Some European countries don't use component on their DVD players. They use scart and PAL.

Oh ya, I forget that we are not all in the States

 

[dave9191]

I went out and bought one of these scart to component convertors. However it turns out that the dvd player needs to support component over scart so it won't work for me.

Looks like the only way that I'll be able to do this is by getting some expensive signal convertors or switches. Which will cost more then getting a new DVD player with component out, and that's more then I wanted to spend. So I will just have to live with changing channels on the tv.

Thanks for replying

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Dave