The 1394 Trade Association announced the S3200 electrical specification for FireWire. The specification builds upon the existing IEEE 1394b standard by boosting the maximum speed from 800 megabits per second to 3.2Gbps. Importantly, S3200 can use the cables and connectors already in use for FireWire 800 products…
The association hopes to have the S3200 specification ratified by early February, and has used the speed boost to position FireWire as an alternative to other recent interfacing technologies…
The association also said that FireWire would soon be able to operate over cable television coaxial cables, and said S3200 would make the standard fast enough to move uncompressed high-definition television signals over long distances at a lower cost than HDMI, the current standard for HD connections.
Everyone hates HDMI connectors. They’re ready to fall out if a fly farts.
BestBuy, Radio Shack and others like them make their money from cables etc.
Radio Shack especially push batteries and sales people have battery sales quotas.
It is what it is.
If UPS wasn’t so damn expensive from China I would see about a internet cable business as cables here are extremely cheap and a very good quality – they are the normal non-BestBuy price. EG: A DVI to DVI monitor cable is about $3 – a Monster looking DVI to DVI is about $8~10.
Cheers
Minor caveat about USB version numbers nowadays. The old USB 2.0 high speed standard is NOW the 2.1 high speed standard. The OLD 1.0 original low speed standard IS NOW CALLED 2.0!!!!! That el cheapo 2.0 flashdrive you just bought may be slower than frozen polar bear snot.
Firewire is great for audio production too. And I will mercifully NOT subject you guys to any of my audio projects. You’re welcome.
When you plug a USB device in a Mac it just works, no dumb ass messages, no hangs, no WTF? Take that Vistards!
Gotta Say I aint ever seen a Hard Drive that can do 480mbps, 800,mbps etc. So??? WHO CARES. Standards are key!!!
#20 – Named
“Yes, and your mac has what kind of firewire mouse again? I guess you’re a young punk or a moron but you don’t remember how Apple pushed USB along all their platforms? No? Well, they did. In fact, they were amongst the first to push USB floppy drive. And mice. And keyboards. And everything USB.
Did I say anything was wrong with Firewire? no. What I said was that USB has its use too, but you’re so deep in Steve Jobs kool-aid you took insult where there is none. Way to you. You win.”
Gee, that’s nice.
Now that you’ve got that out of your system, go take a minute or two and look up which company came up with FireWire. And which company was the first to make FW standard on their boxes? (Hint: it’s the same company)
Firewire is fine as it is, but the industry decided to embrace the braindead USB standard so now PC’s have at best 1 firewire port, and 8 USB ports plus a bunch of headers on the mobo for more USB, none of which work properly without the usual ritual of trying to find drivers on the internet, wondering why my USB 1.1 pen drive won’t work in the USB 2.0 port, and the old “install driver first, then plug in device” which really makes no sense at all except to the idiots at microsoft.