D-shell connector age?

[Tony Duell]

> To be honest, it's a great idea - and much better than non-European countries 
> where the typical connectivity is via RF only.
> 
> Going source->modulator->tuner->display never did seem like a good idea when 
> you could just go source->display via separate shielded RGB signals. (The 
> picture quality I've seen on the typical US setup is piss-poor compared to the 
> UK, jokes about NTSC aside)

One reason for this, I susepct, is that before the common usage of SMPSUs 
in TV sets, almost all TVs were live-chassis, with all the internal 
circuitry directly connected to the mains. Very few UK/European sets had 
an isoalting mains transdormer.

It;s is a lot easier to isolate a VHF or UHF signal (a couple of special 
capacitors will do it) than baseband video/audio (which would involve 
spectial transformers or opto-isolators at least). I've seen a few 
top-end (B&) and the like) valved TVs (live chassis, of ocurse) which had 
a special audio transformer to provide an isolated (from the mains) audio 
output from the set to feed into a tape recorder or whatever. But it 
wasn't common at all.

-tony