VESA Enhanced Video Connector

The VESA Enhanced Video Connector (EVC) is a VESA standard that was intended to reduce the number of cables around a computer by incorporating video, audio, FireWire and USB into a single cable system, terminating in a 35-pin Molex MicroCross connector.

Although EVC did not find favour with computer manufacturers, it evolved into the somewhat more popular VESA Plug and Display (P&D) standard using a physically identical 35-pin interface with a different shell, capable of transmitting video (both analog and digital) and data.

[citation needed] A VESA EVC connector is capable of carrying analog video (VGA-based) output, video input (composite or S-video), FireWire, analog stereo audio (input and output), and USB signals.

The quasi-coaxial "MicroCross" developed by Molex provided comparable shielding performance with a simpler assembly.

The physical arrangement of the EVC pins is identical to the newer VESA Plug and Display (P&D), which carries digital video over the pins used in EVC to carry analog audio (input and output) and video input.

M1-A EVC cable
Some HP9000 workstations used the EVC connector, photographed here on a VISUALIZE fx4 graphics card (p/n A4553A)