SCART With VGA CRT Monitor

[theclaw]

Yeah the converter works fine on US TVs with NTSC consoles.

Problem is he wants to use PAL consoles.
To do so using that converter, the TV needs 50hz support.

[grandta13]

Every other place the Transcoder is listed it's claimed NTSC compatible, so it'll work with standard US sets. All reviews say it works great.

It says it supports NTSC, but does that mean it can take any input and output it to an NTSC monitor, or that it can take 60Hz input and output to NTSC?
Also, if it can accept any format input and output to an NTSC monitor, what happens to the extra ten cycles? (I once used a software-based import loader, which hung for ten cycles after every fifty; this very negatively affected gameplay.)

EDIT: This was posted while I was typing this post:

Yeah the converter works fine on US TVs with NTSC consoles.

Problem is he wants to use PAL consoles.
To do so using that converter, the TV needs 50hz support.

This is what I feared; is there any way that I could use a PAL system without 'skipping' or speedup? (Other than the PVM/retro monitor solutions).

[theclaw]

At the price range, I'm not sure. More familiar with options too fancy/expensive for your needs.

[Oge]

I am wondering if there is a practical way to use SCART from a PAL game console on a VGA CRT Monitor. I live in the US and getting a PAL CRT TV seems near impossible without paying several hundred dollars. I would like a way to play PAL region games without quality loss or lag, but I'm not sure if there is a way that this is practically possible.

(I don't have an HDTV, and I wouldn't want to have to pay for one in addition to a scaler.)

(I'm not sure if I worded this effectively, so if you would like clarification on anything, just ask.)

You can convert S-Video (or Composite Video) coming through the SCART straight to VGA. Back in the 90s there were some adapters for this purpose and if I recall correctly this would produce a format agnostic output.

Cheers,
Oge