Mystery Cable Identification

[Jordan G]

Greetings! I stumbled upon this cable and I'm trying to figure out what it's used for, if anyone has any insight I'd greatly appreciate it! Thanks!

 

[Mitch Gross]

Digging deep into memory here, that rectangular black connector looks like the one used on a consumer Panasonic 7" LCD that was originally meant for car installs. I used to have one on my old Aaton package more than a decade ago. I recall that the Star Trek: Enterprise TV series used them as set dressing monitor displays littered all over the bridge set.

Anyway, that custom ARRI Media cable would be to get power & video to the monitor and the other cable is the original that came with the monitor.

EDIT: Found a picture of one, just for the hell of it. Time has seriously passed this bit of technology by. It's a pretty crap monitor by today's standards.

http://www.digitalimage4k.com/panasonic-7-lcd-monitor/

 

[Run&Gun]

Digging deep into memory here, that rectangular black connector looks like the one used on a consumer Panasonic 7" LCD that was originally meant for car installs. I used to have one on my old Aaton package more than a decade ago. I recall that the Star Trek: Enterprise TV series used them as set dressing monitor displays littered all over the bridge set.

Anyway, that custom ARRI Media cable would be to get power & video to the monitor and the other cable is the original that came with the monitor.

EDIT: Found a picture of one, just for the hell of it. Time has seriously passed this bit of technology by. It's a pretty crap monitor by today's standards.

http://www.digitalimage4k.com/panasonic-7-lcd-monitor/

That looks like the one I had packaged up with my BVW-35 back in the day. Made a nice little screening set-up for producers that packed up into a Pelican. I do remember it having a multi-pin break-out cable like that for signal and power.