On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 22:38:18 -0800, Pat Cheney wrote
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On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 21:39:41 -0800, John Navas wrote:

The reason for the non-standard connector is that many digital cameras
(not just this one) use a tiny 8 pin connector that combines USB with
video and audio out. If standard Mini-USB or Micro-USB were used (which
themselves are different), another cable would be needed for AV

This is a great post of yours that provides wonderful new relevant
information!

What you're informing us is that there is no way Casio could have made a
single port handle the USB and AV functions if they used the mini-usb or
micro-usb standards. This is extremely useful information. Thank you.

You're welcome, but that information is readily available on the
Internet, in Wikipedia for example.

This makes sense.

It ought to.

What this then means is that any camera with a combined AV/USB port, by the
very definition, MUST be using a proprietary connector!

True.

Together, we're now starting to understand the problem (better than the
major reviewers did, anyway).

I suspect that many of them do understand the issue.

It would be interesting to figure out whether Casio is the only camera
manufacturer using a combined AV/USB port.

It's not. Many companies do.

Does anyone out there have a camera with a combined AV/USB port?

More than one of them.

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Very best wishes for the holiday season and for the coming new year,
John