I just bought a new Flatscreen, it's missing a SCART Port. Now I'm planning to buy a SCART to HDMI Scaler.
Something like the Framemeister is completly out of my budget.
Could you make recommendations for a scaler below 100€?
S-video should be worse than the RGB SCART cable Nintendo sells you, because with that SCART cable the output is set to RGB without chroma subsampling. Anyway, the European GameCube should only support SCART, while the US one should only support S-video, if I am not mistaken.
Likely the best output would be progressive scan (480p) output through component cable. It seems that without modding the European GameCube , even with the digital A/V port, isn't able to output progressive scan content (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nintendo_GameCube_games_with_480p_and_16:9_support), so you should end up with a better luma signal but with chroma subsampling (the digital A/V port uses 4:2:2 chroma subsampling: http://gamesx.com/wiki/doku.php?id=av:nintendodigitalav).
So to sum it up, here are the recommended outputs and cables (assuming you don't have a modded GameCube or a "boot disk"):
NTSC GameCube: 480p output using component cable (digital A/V port required)
PAL GameCube: RGB output using SCART cable (component is recommended as well if a digital A/V port is present, should give a better luma signal, but with chroma subsampling and surely isn't worth the cost)
Final note: the composite-to-SCART adapter that is sold with the PAL GameCube does NOT carry a RGB signal, just a standard composite signal!
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