My guess is that the camera will be less popular because of the lack of a FW port but what do I know. Chris On Sep 23, 2006, at 9:13 AM, osxlists wrote: > Looks like to trend to leave firewire in the dust has been taken to > a new step when the new HDR-SR1 camcorder from Sony has only USB3 > port! > It's crazy. I don't get it. What do you think? > Has Sony gone mad? USB can stand HD better now for some mysterious > reasons. > Or is that the tape required firewire and that requirement is going > to be obsolete now with hard disk recording? > > mc