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 Originally Posted by EvilKell
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There is absolutely ZERO support for audio and video out for the microUSB standard. None. Zilch. Special hardware changes need to be made for the technology to work, and additional pins need to be added to the microUSB connector to enable the functionality.
From Precentral's Part 1 Review:
You highlighted the wrong part of the review. Try this:
The micro-USB port sits at the bottom of the device. It’s the only physical IO port on the entire device, and even then only serves that role in a USB-to-your-computer capacity. There are no USB host capabilities here, so you aren’t going to be hooking up card readers, video output devices, keyboards, or whatever other tethered hardware suits your fancy. It’s possible HP could add this in a future version of webOS, but here out of the gate the TouchPad is lacking those features...
You're way off the mark on the notion of adding "additional pins". Were someone to do so, the device would no longer be a USB port. It would be some sort of hybrid. USB ports have 4 connectors. It's part of the standard.
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