pfarrell;357554 Wrote: > It was a niche product, great if you needed it. > > The "professional environments" that DeVerm mentioned were never "mass > market" and there are always folks who support professional niches.
I think it was a little more than niche. Mass market video camera's used to have no USB, just firewire. Now we have both and let's see what happens: I run around with a friend and my videocamera. We see something really strange flying through the air and I manage to capture it on video. We decide we must put it up on youtube right away and as the friend lives close by, we rush to his house. Now we split to 2 scenarios: 1. Friend has firewire. I connect my camera, stream the video to some MS or Nero standard software, edit a bit and upload to youtube. 2. Friend has no firewire. I connect my camera with USB and windows asks for the driver CD. End of adrenaline rush, ready for a single malt, downloading drivers from the net instead of editing video. see what I mean? The fact that firewire *knows* DV and every camera without the need for drivers is what makes it nice and not just niche. I had to make sure and checked the new MacBooks and indeed Pat is right, no firewire. May be I missed something and USB now supports DV, at least on Mac's? cheers, Nick. -- DeVerm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DeVerm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18104 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54534 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
