D-shell connector age? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

3 Jan 2007

 --- Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk
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  wrote: 

 Anyone know where D-shell connectors first appeare d
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  on equipment?

 Interesting thread going on in a local group at th e
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  moment about why SCART [1] 
 sockets are so horrible and nasty (prone to breaki ng
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  pins, difficult to line 
 up, prone to falling out etc.) and why something
 better, like a D-shell 
 connector, wasn't chosen instead.

Yeah, the cable seems to put weight on the
SCART socket and caused a glitchy SCART
socket (or cable?) so we had to stick a thin
piece of card in to get it to work!!

I use a 3-way SCART box myself now, no
more connecting/deconnecting to damage
those pins, or the sockets on the TV/DVD/VCR.

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  Thing is, SCART was apparently first used in
 consumer A/V equipment in 1977, 
 which probably means it was thought up in the
 mid-70's.  

Really?

I never realised SCART was so old, I thought
it was a modern thing. Or was it just
re-introduced by TV manufacturers?

Regards,
Andrew D. Burton
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk