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Originally Posted by BrianF  HI guys,
I'm a lurker here, but have been reading for quite awhile and learned many great tips from you all. Anyways, I'm doing a research paper on the future of FW and how it relates to products/recording in the MI industry.
I was hoping some of you might be able to give me a hand. I already understand the basics, and history and big players in the game and who makes great FW products, but maybe some of you have an idea as to what new types of interfaces, or connections you'd like to see, or if you seen recent documentation from Summer NAMM, if FW will be obsolete in a few years being fully replaced by USB 2.0 as the standard.
Are we making any progress with FW devices? is FW800 worth the time and money for companies to invest in? Any newer FW technologies out there that anyone is familiar with? thanks in advance guys! |
When even FW400 (1394a) isn't supported properly by Windows XP after sp2 (the microsoft patches don't work - you have to revert your drivers to sp1-level - see
details), I have serious doubts about Microsoft's willingness to support firewire, given that they have stakes in the competing technology (usb).
And apparently FW800 (1394b) is broken in Vista. Not that anybody uses that (Vista, I mean - not FW800).
Which is a shame, because firewire is a faster technology - though USB 2.0 has higher 'data-rates', it's effective bandwidth in practice is much smaller.
Cheers,
m@