On 11/19/13, joem joem@martindale-electric.co.uk wrote:
That old latching connector could still leave it with a height problem for slick designs.
I believe that the dongle (on the card edge latching end) was no taller than the PCMCIA type-I card that it connected to, so I don't think there would be a height problem, assuming you mean height in the thickness-of-PCMCIA-type-I-card sense.
Not that I'm seriously promoting this as THE RIGHT ANSWER vis-a-vis HDMI (although my personal experience with HDMI connectors is that they are fragile relative to the weight and stiffness--and thereby force-on-the-connector--of the HDMI cable itself). Just throwing the information out there...
Mechanically, modern USB and HDMI type connectors really leave something to be desired, IMHO.