On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Randy Glenn <randy@surrealitylabs.com> wrote:
> I'm told by people who Use The Gear that Firewire also has a huge
> place in audio editing - that a lot of multitrack recording gear and
> such is really only available in Firewire. Content creation is a HUGE
> market for Apple - indeed, probably their largest market for their Pro
> machines. Firewire / IEEE-1394 is better suited to such applications
> because of attributes like not loading down the host CPU to run the
> bus, allowing DMA transfers, guaranteeing bandwidth, etc. The last
> thing you want when doing pro audio or video work is latency.

I see. So Firewire will be there for the higher end market for
video and audio editing.

I remember the old Creative Audigy card comes with
Firewire interface.


Xiaofan
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