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What is SCART?

April 26, 2017SCART

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What is SCART?

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The term SCART is derived from Syndicat des Constructeurs d’Appareils Radiorecepteurs et Televiseurs. Originally, it was a French standard and as a connector, is only available in Europe. It was first used in the late ‘80’s to connect video recorders, televisions and related peripherals through one industry standard cable rather than a myriad of cluttered, messy cables. As SCART’s popularity has increased, more and more audiovisual products are being produced with at least one connector as standard. Many actually have multiple connectors to allow more than one device for example, television, DVD player and set top box. One problem with SCART is that when more than one device is connected together they will all compete for attention. By this, we mean that for instance if you have a DVD player and a set top box, both appliances will try to take priority. Generally, there are two ways to alleviate this, either turn one device off or purchase a SCART switch box to control them.