Posted By
Chicken
on 2010-10-29
23:58:19
 |  Re: interesting'n'funny stuff
At first I thought - even if the website says otherwise - that they mixed up input and output because it's possible with some graphic cards to do scart compatible output. And there are some ready made cables for that around, too.
Some graphic cards require modified drivers to achieve that. Gaia posted a link to some arcade forum a while back where they presented such a driver (still requiring a special cable). Additionaly, I think (if the card is capable of providing the right frquencies) this is pretty much a standard procedure in Linux boxes (Hi TLC  ).
Well, anyway. Now I think this cable is just for devices that feature "scart via D-SUB 15".
I know that some beamers don't have a scart socket but just a D-SUB 15 one. Therefore, if you want to connect a dvd player, you need a special cable.
You can find the schematics here:
(EDIT: These are the schematics of the very same cable that MMS linked above)
http://www.delock.de/download/pdf/65028/A/5445/
It's just a "pin out converter", no other parts. If SCART2VGA conversion were that easy, why would anyone buy those "expensive" converters? 
I'm too lazy to check but you can trace the lines...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scart
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VGA_connector
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