Reply to post: Re: I was going to look at a Samsung 50" TV - to buy one today, in fact.

Who watches the watchers? Samsung does so it can fling ads at owners of its smart TVs

Dan 55 Silver badge

Re: I was going to look at a Samsung 50" TV - to buy one today, in fact.

If it gave you the worst picture then it wasn't RGB through the SCART cable, it was component or S-Video.

Many TVs don't have SCART since France dropped it from being mandatory in 2015. You may rejoice, until you decide to plug something in which needs an RGB connection (game console, retro computer) then you may see things in a different light.

YPbPr needs a converter from RGB, cheap Amazon SCART RGB->HDMI boxes are laggy, OSSC is good but not cheap. What the console/computer uses internally is RGB, what the TV uses internally is RGB, anything other than simple RGB connection will give a worse picture or lag or both, with the exception of OSSC.

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