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- From: mpa@iig.com.au (Mark P Allen)
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- Subject: Re: How about a SCSI Video digitizer ???
- Date: 23 Mar 1996 15:25:48 GMT
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- On 22-Mar-96 08:30:43, Florian Faber wrote:
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- MPA>> Too late now. Within 12 months we'll see the first computers coming
- MPA>> out with FireWire (IEEE 1394), offering platform independent data
- MPA>> transfer of 50MB/sec (ie., capable of moving uncompressed video).
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- FF> Nope. The IEEE1394 supports 100 and 200MBit/s, 4Q96 400MBit/s and 1Gbit/s
- FF> somewhere in 1997.
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- Thanks, I had only heard of the 400Mbit/sec...
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- FF> What makes it possible to transmit uncompressed video data is its special
- FF> feature, the isochronous transfer mode.
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- I know I read up on that, but damned if I can remember it ;^)
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- FF> I don't know where you got the 50MB/s.
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- Please correct me, I thought 400Mbit/sec was 50Mbyte/sec (?)
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- MPA>> The Sony DCX1000 (or whatever it's called) DVC video camera already
- MPA>> has a FireWire port, but just has nothing to connect it to :^(
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- FF> It has a 1394 port. FireWire is the name that Apple has for its
- FF> implementation of the IEEE1394 bus.
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- Thanks for the clarification
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- FF> If you want some information about the IEEE1394-bus, tell me. I got some
- FF> on the texas instruments IEEE1394-symposium during CeBit (about 1kg).
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- Um...I think you're clarifications will do fine :^)
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- My main point was that SCSI is outdated for the purpose suggested, though
- I too hate interjections that include inaccurate data :^)
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- FF> I really hope that the PowerPC-Amigas are going to have a 1394-interface.
- FF> They *must* have. There's no way round.
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- I hope so too, and coupled to a 64-bit bus (incl. 64-bit PCI, not 32-bit).
- Why don't I feel all that confident?
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- Regards,
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- Mark
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