In Europe we had connectors which were a standard and useful so whatever replaced them had to be the same. So in the US you had, for example, a whole load of RCA jacks, we had SCART which supporter composite, s-video and rgb and audio and control signals. Plug one end in to your TV and …

March 22, 2026 - 17:01 UTC

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…the other in to your VCR. That was it. It carried all the signals. The same for DVD. You could even plug home computers in via it. You could even daisy chain so just one cable between each device. Press play on say the DVD and the TV would automatically switch and even manage widescreen and not.
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So if people and industry are going to accept the replacement it has to be something like HDMI. What I am amazed is not that the world accepted it but the US because the US is very “not invented here”. For example DVB-T vs the US format for terrestrial digital. Or DAB vs the US digital radio system!
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