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What is this cable for ?

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Go to solution Solved by FizzyFantom,

I don't think it's a mini displayport, it looks too small.

It might be a proprietary connector for a camera, probably for outputting video through composite. I've got some of these around, they're really annoying if you lose/replace the camera.

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looks like a mini display port to composite video converter 

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Mini DP to RCA Digital. Not sure how that works though...

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I don't think it's a mini displayport, it looks too small.

It might be a proprietary connector for a camera, probably for outputting video through composite. I've got some of these around, they're really annoying if you lose/replace the camera.

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