The walls between my living room, on the new apartment I'm renting, are paper-thin between the living room and my sister's room. I'm a night person, that is when I do my best work, and when I like to watch TV. My TV is quite decent, but it only has aerial antenna in, and SCART-in. How do I manage to get sound out, so that I can plug in my new RF Headphones, and not disturb her sleep? Anyone has any ideas?

Give her ear plugs?

Quote: Original post by Prozak
SCART-in

Forgive my ignorance, but is there such a thing as a one way SCART?

I'm using one of these to hook my TV sound to my stereo (switched to output):



And from there, you could plug in your headphones.

SCART is bidirectional, so I'd go with Wan's suggestion - though I must confess I'm a bit surprised to hear it doesn't have a headphone socket on it.

SCART outputs are line-level signals, so in most cases you would need an amplifier in order to drive headphones. Without an amp, it is possible to hear most stuff on TV (especially if your earphones are sensitive), but the audio would be relatively quiet. RF headphones have an amplifier built-in, though, so this may be a non-issue for you.

That said, if you want to test it, it is very easy to make a converter from RCAx2 to mini-RCA (those white and red jacks to a headphone jack) if you can hold a soldering iron and have access to an electronics store :)

"Forgive my ignorance, but is there such a thing as a one way SCART?"

Yes. If only the input pins are connected, it only does input...

Some of the video pins are in/out depending on the context in which you use it (the device picks). The audio pins and composite video have separate left-in, left-out, right-in, right-out, vid-in, vid-out. If you're living in a composite video world, there are input only sockets which only have l/r/v input and the various grounds connected.

If the TV doesn't have audio outs connected, then there'll be no audio output available on the socket.

Having said that, it's worth getting a scart-phono breakout and seeing if they connected the audio outputs -- a lot of times the circuitry is in place, but the labels on the case are "dumbed down" and just say "scart in" and you can actually use "scart in" sockets as audio taps.

Devices other than TVs are supposed to have 2 sockets -- and you can daisychain stuff. In idle mode, they're supposed to just forward the signals un touched. So "input" and "output" are labelled as such. Hence the TV (for symmetry) needs a an "input" socket.