[MacDV] Re: Thanks from the guy with the DV camcorder without firewire

[Gerhard Kuhn]

On Thursday, June 5, 2003, at 02:30  AM, Daniel Beck wrote:

>> A USB port would indicate it is a digital STILL camera NOT a Digital 
>> Video camera.
>
> Wrong again. I already wrote before that there are old models of 
> MiniDV camcorders that do not have Firewire. Just because you haven't 
> seen one doesn't mean they don't exist. Why is this difficult for you?
>
> And by writing the way you do, you insult the intelligence of the 
> original poster who has the camera in his hands. Sheesh!
>

A USB port of that era would not be capable of transferring the data at 
the required rate for the  DV stream so there has to be a firewire 
connection (or some other connection capable of the high data rate) or 
we have an analog camera here.

Gerhard Kuhn
suspice at hay.net