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| Thread ID: 43565 | 2004-03-19 03:58:00 | Firewire options for the firewireless | Myke (3277) | Press F1 |
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| 223615 | 2004-03-19 03:58:00 | While doing the rounds of schools in Marlborough I was disappointed to see that the shiny new purple Toshiba Notebooks arriving in schools lacked a Firewire port. They get a good review in the lates PCWorld.co.nz magazine, but they also felt that a lack of firewire or IEEE-1394 was a minus. I'm mainly thinking video capture issues. I assume that not all is lost to those without Firewire. Would purchasing a USB cable with a IEEE-1394 plug at the other end do the job? USB 2.0 ports should be quick enough I think... I haven't tested this out yet, so if anybody knows something that I'm missing, let me know. The cables are $29 - $40 (sighted at - Harvey Norman). Is a video capture card necessary to capture video? It is possible to buy video capture cards for less than $200. But is that needed? |
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| 223616 | 2004-03-19 04:03:00 | USB-Firewire cables wouldn't work, unless there was some kind of "box" in the middle of it to convert firewire signals to USB, and for a driver in the computer to regocnise it as a firewire device. You can get USB video-capture devices (approx $200 I think), which apart from having Firewire, also have analog video/sound input. |
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| 223617 | 2004-03-19 04:21:00 | Creative Labs do a few USB based devices that have FireWire ports as well as sound etc.. | ugh1 (4204) | ||
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