Uprez dvcpro-HD

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Gary,
OK. From now on I will call that “cross-conversion”.
In the best case I see this term unnecessary, but being not harmful for the user, let it be.
I think I’m right complaining about the way the industry talk some times.
I see many post in this forum “caused’ by the lack of technical accuracy in hardware and software documents. Misinformation and confusion for what I consider marketing reasons.
After seven years downloading DVCam, I’m still trying to understand the duality “FireWire/iLINK”.
Cheers,
rafael

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[Gary Adcock]

[Rafael Amador] “OK. From now on I will call that “cross-conversion”. “

I am just going by what SMPTE / EBU the worldwide governing commissions call it, nothing more.

“I think I’m right complaining about the way the industry talk some times. “

I do not disagree, there is way too much “Manufacturing Double Talk” about what and how.

“After seven years downloading DVCam, I’m still trying to understand the duality “FireWire/iLINK””

it cost to call it “iLink” Sony charges for use of the company name-
Firewire was a term coined in the Apple camp at the early part of the digital change. At one time using either name would incur a fee from the respective companies (Apple is one of the founding members of the IEEE 1394 standard committee and the first computer company that included FW on their logic board) but Apple released all rights and allowed FW to become the open standard that it is today.

from WIKI…

FireWire is Apple Inc.’s name for the IEEE 1394 High Speed Serial Bus. It was initiated by Apple (in 1986[2]) and developed by the IEEE P1394 Working Group, largely driven by contributions from Apple, although major contributions were also made by engineers from Texas Instruments, Sony, Digital Equipment Corporation, IBM, and INMOS/SGS Thomson (now STMicroelectronics).

However, the royalty which Apple Inc. and other patent holders initially demanded from users of FireWire (US$0.25 per end-user system) and the more expensive hardware needed to implement it (US$1–$2), both of which have since been dropped, have prevented FireWire from displacing USB in low-end mass-market computer peripherals, where product cost is a major constraint.

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