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ZV Port Last modified: Wednesday, November 07, 2001

Short for zoomed video port, a port that enables data to be transferred directly from a PC Card to a VGA controller. The port is actually a connection to a zoomed video bus. This new bus was designed by the PCMCIA to enable notebook computers to connect to real-time multimedia devices such as video cameras. The first notebook computers with the ZV port arrived in late 1996.

Toshiba Zoomed Video technology article  This article describes the new Zoomed Video Port (ZV Port) standard. The Zoomed Video Port for PC Cards This white paper provides a good overview of the Zoomed Video Port (ZV Port).