Evening Martin.
On 05/05/2005, at 7:58 PM, Martin Hill wrote:
From: Rob Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Actually that brings up a point why the camera manufacturers with the
advent of large files and bandwidth size have not adapted Firewire
800. Would rectify a few problems especially with the VTR's for HD
coming online and the troubles Panasonic and Apple are having with
the AJ-HD1200A.
Sadly if the CEO of Weibetech (a Firewire hard disk manufacturer)
is correct
(see link and excerpt below), Apple may be deprecating it's
commitment to
Firewire 800 and possibly heading in the direction of SATA bus
technologies
for external as well as internal connections.
For this purpose I could actually see the benefits, and would have to
say Apple would be crazy to ignore it and rumours for next upgrades
of PB it is the bus technology of choice. I believe it is already a
design factor, just a HD to slot in the PB is problem. A simple
connector for external would not be an issue, and SATA can be daisy-
chained so only one connector is needed.
It is hard to imagine that Firewire 400 won't stick around with so
much
video gear using it - but at least for future external hard drives, it
sounds like Firewire 1600 and 3200 may just be pipe-dreams.
I doubt the demise, if at all wont be for quite sometime as USB is
just not up to speed for NLE, and I can not see Apple chop of one
hand that feeds it. Especially now with the vast amount of
broadcasters joining the fray as an alternative to Pro equipment and
cost factors not to mention mobility. Video camera manufacturers are
not able or capable to switch to SATA, I also believe it cannot do
what FireWire does with same accuracy which is USB downfall.
Perhaps that is why Firewire 800 still hasn't made it down to the
iMac or
into video gear and perhaps why Apple hasn't fixed the performance
problems
with Firewire 800: http://www.barefeats.com/fire47.html
I suspect this has a lot to do with M$ mob not accepting or using for
capture. Apple would have to tackle it alone and we all know the
market share resources required. So plug type of choice for moving
vast amounts of DATA accurately and with control?? I would suspect
connection will remain the same, but the codecs will allow the
advancements.
Who knows which way it will go? :-(
-Mart
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Cheers!
Rob Davies
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