What is this port on the back of my panasonic pv-gs16 camcorder? It is hidden under a cover under the battery.

Question

I removed this cover under the battery and discovered a secret port. I want to know what it is used for. Here is a link to the picture. Under the cover is a white female port with about 10 pins 5 on each side. It is a single rectangle shaped depression with the pins all facing each other not like a serial port or vga port or parallel port. more like a smaller usb port but less deep and without the plastic piece in the middle.

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Answer 1

It is used by the servicer via a computer interface adaptor for the purpose of reading error codes for diagnosis and for tape path alignment