[MacDV] Re: DV camcorder without firewire (was iMovie 3 isout)

[Gerhard Kuhn]

When USB 2 came out Apple dropped the licensing fee in order to keep dv 
camera makers from jumping ship.  6 pin and 4 pin connectors do the 
same thing just that the 6 pin is capable of powering devices.

Gerhard Kuhn
suspice at hay.net

On Wednesday, June 4, 2003, at 06:54  PM, Benjamin Ing wrote:


> Also, fwiw, Apple gets a license fee for every time the name FireWire 
> (or the logo) is used, so Sony may have come up with the iLink moniker 
> to avoid licensing fees.