pfarrell;357593 Wrote: > I don't know what you mean by "DV" here. Images, photos, songs, tunes, > etc are just wads-o-bits > ast enough. > > Part of what makes modern OS such bloatware is that they already > contain > all the drivers in the world, so USB is just plug and play. > > Altho if you really care about your external disk drive, you would use > eSATA
DV = standard for Digital Video. It's not just streaming, but also controlling the camera's functions from the software (i.e. play, pause, ff etc. for automatic transfer, like ripping a CD but "takes" instead of "tracks") On most camera's, it's just called the DV port. I think all new camera's have the port too and you can connect all of them to your computer and use them without installing drivers. This is not so for USB: each camera that has USB comes with drivers and they need to be installed/upgraded before Windows will work with the camera. XP has no drivers for it, but may be Vista does? So it's not about speed, connectors, controllers etc. but it's the build-in peripheral support. For external drive: yes, eSATA is it. When SATA showed up I wondered why they didn't have eSATA because it was my wish for too many years using external SCSI with 8+ disk-systems. 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
