There you have it.
I've seen and used both Scart and s-video, you've never used scart because the USA is so insular it doesn't like ideas from outside. The consequence is that you've never seen scart, so your knowledge is obviously limited.
You can try to twist my words all you like, I didn't say rf was better than s-vid, I said it was sufficient to provide enough info for svhs to work properly. If you've got a signal that comes from an analogue source, you can put it through a s-vid connector if you like but it won't improve the picture quality over an RF signal.
In any case, you will probably want audio too, and in the case of a vcr you will probably want signals in both directions, and an indicator when an output signal is present to enable auo-switching. These are provided in one connector with scart and is consequently prefered worldwide (except in the USA) to avoid having a tangle of wires, wrong connections, confusion for the consumer etc.
Btw, scart can carry s-video signals, but rarely does since no-one really wants to work with lower standards.
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