[mythtv-users] PVR-350 no signal?

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Mon Feb 8 20:07:32 UTC 2010


On Monday 08 February 2010 12:37:25 pm Corne Beerse wrote:
> Brian Wood schreef:
> > On Monday 08 February 2010 06:16:27 am mythtv at splmail.nl wrote:
> >> Situation 2 it is! The cable company still broadcasts analog tv. So I
> >> plug in the "coax" (composite?) cable direct on the PVR-350. And indeed,
> >> using cat /dev/vdieo0 > test.mpg I am able to record video.
> >
> > Coax is an RF input, "composite" is baseband video, usually using an RCA
> > connector here in the USA, but I've heard tell of SCART in the EU :-)
> 
> Scart is the same signallling as tulip/composit. Its just that the
> signal is pal (as it should be around the world ;-)

You don't like "Never Twice the Same Color"?

Or my favorite, "System Essentially Contrary to the American Method"?

So SCART is simply a different physical interface, but is essentially PAL 
composite?



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