D-shell connector age?

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 --- Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk
> wrote: 
> 
> Anyone know where D-shell connectors first appeare
d
> on equipment?
> 
> Interesting thread going on in a local group at th
e
> moment about why SCART [1] 
> sockets are so horrible and nasty (prone to breaki
ng
> 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.


> 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