I'm looking to connect a Firewire DV camcorder to my laptop but it does not have a firewire port and there are no slots available to install a firewire card. Do I have any other options?
2007-06-07 23:07:42 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
As far as I know there's no 'adapter' between the two types. My suggestion would be purchasing a Firewire PCMCIA card in order to connect the Firewire DV camcorder to your laptop.
A PCMCIA card for laptops looks to be closer to $50:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815203002
So, there you go!
2007-06-07 23:15:15 · answer #1 · answered by Dhananjeyan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The data rates of these connectivity options are different, and their architecture is different. There are multi port hubs for both interfaces, but no conversion adapters I have seen.
The original USB specification offered only a modest bit rate, but USB 2.0 handles 480 Mbps, fast enough to handle 60 MBps data streams. 1.
Firewire has 400 and 800 Mbps rates. So I like the solution above, get a pcmcia firewire adapter card.
http://www.firewiredirect.com/firewire/products/cardbus.shtml
$50 to $80.
2007-06-07 23:56:35 · answer #2 · answered by pedro 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, they make such an adapter. I simply went to Yahoo and Google and did a search for "USB to Firewire adapter" and got lots of sites.
Here's one result from that search. Check it out.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?DEPA=0&type=&Description=firewire+adapter&Submit=ENE&N=0&Ntk=all&CMP=KNC-GoogleAdwords&ATT=Networking
Firewire connections are excellent. A little faster then a USB plus they use less CPU power from your computer to perform nicely for very fast file transfers.
2007-06-11 21:48:35 · answer #3 · answered by desertcities 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Firewire is faster than USB.
You can get a PCMIA card with a firewire output for $20.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815104238
http://www.directron.com/expressguide.html
IEEE1394B [firewire] 100 MB/s
http://www.everythingusb.com/usb2/faq.htm
USB 1.0 (Intel) 1.5 MBps
USB 2.0 (Intel) 60 MBps
2007-06-07 23:18:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you somewhat want a card. to make beneficial its nicely suited as enjoying cards have distinctive technologies we could ought to understand make and authentic form of pc which you have. this is barely one occasion, there could be greater decrease priced and greater alternatives firewire now has 2 speeds 4 hundred and 800 verify to work out in the adventure that your cam is able to 800 velocity undergo in innovations this card would possibly not in wonderful condition your pc ** some enjoying cards would possibly not artwork with sony kit. be careful
2016-11-27 01:46:22 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont recall seeing such a device, as manufactures dont really spend money on devel;oping hardware that they dont see a market for.
2007-06-07 23:11:20 · answer #6 · answered by Cupcake 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋