Posted on 12/07/2009 11:16:55 AM PST by ShadowAce
Do they have display ports on TV’s and home theater systems?
My other laptop has the HDMI and will be given streaming media duty.
“I hate it when my ports are obsolete.”
That’s what my ex-wife says. LOL
How much faster is this than the Fire Wire external drive that I’ve been using for two years?
I have been waiting for the new USB 3.0 to upgrade my motherboard and computer.
Please GIGABYTE release a new motherboard with USB 3.0 on it!!!!
Granted, that was the weakest example. Nevertheless, USB ones are ubiquitous, much more common than FireWire.
Printers and cell phones, nope.. I haven’t seen any of those that were FireWire enabled; digital cameras if they are video and somewhat higher quality are typically FireWire enabled
Not really fair to call that a "digital camera". That's a whole different level of device (and in the case of video, one where FireWire is certainly appropriate).
Yes, it's starting to be adopted in LCD TVs.
From the specs it looks to be over twice the throughput on a hard drive, probably more with a faster device.
Although it gives that high 5 Gb/sec transfer rate, the USB standard has high overhead. That’s how a FireWire 400 Mb/sec can generally beat the USB 2 at 480 Mb/sec by a wide margin. So expect it to be slower than other standards in real life than the raw spec might imply.
In any case, all of these next-gen standards, USB, FireWire and eSATA are faster than any one hard drive. You’ll need to hook it up to a RAID or solid state disk to saturate it.
>Not really fair to call that a “digital camera”. That’s a whole different level of device (and in the case of video, one where FireWire is certainly appropriate).
I understand what you’re trying to say; but if a video-camera is still a camera then a digital video-camera is ALSO a digital camera. (Transitivity on implication.)
I never said a video camera was still a camera. ;-)
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