firewire
Which Type of Camcorder is Best?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed When you’re in the market for a new camcorder, how do you know which camcorder is best? Choosing between HDD camcorders, SD card camcorders, and MiniDV or HDV tape-based cameras can be confusing. The best camcorder for you really boils down [...]
How to Use FireWire 400 Devices in 800 Ports
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed I don’t know if you remember the battle between USB and FireWire, but USB won of course. I still have a few devices that use FireWire, including the camera I use to record my videos. FireWire has less overhead than you [...]
What’s the Best Blu-ray DVD Player and Burner to Buy?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Most of you probably have an optical drive in your computer, or even externally. But do you have a Blu-ray drive? If not, you should look into picking up a Mercury Pro! OWC has rolled out the first external Blu-ray drive [...]
Can Analog to Digital Conversion Happen via FireWire?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed I’ve tried a few devices that could take a signal from a video switcher and feed it into the Mac. None of them really would work with the software I use to integrate all the different components. I picked something up [...]
Which USB / Firewire Car Charger do You Use?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed How many of you out there have an iPod? How many of you leave the house? What about having a car? Even if you don’t have an iPod, you may have a device that requires a charger of some type. I’m [...]
Cable Management
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Jthermane wrote: “USB, Power, FireWire… there are many types of cables out in the world that do many different things. They can bring things to life, carry data, output sound. But the more cables you get, the harder it is to [...]
Wireless Networks, Hard Drive Failures, Web Browsers
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Taking live calls on the 888-PIRILLO line is always fun, especially when the questions are so diverse! This video entails more than one question/topic, so it was three times the fun! Tuxedo_Jericho is a long time chat regular, so talking to [...]
How to Buy a Hard Drive
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Liam is 14 years old, and from the United Kingdom. He definitely has a bright future ahead of him. He sent in this top 5 list, with his tips on buying an external hard drive. Pay close attention to these tips [...]
The Best Hard Drive Enclosure
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed I have a large collection of hard drives lying around. I’ve been looking for a great enclosure for at least one of these, to use as an external drive. I’d rather it be a FireWire 800, as the transfer rates are [...]
Firewire Target Disk Mode
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Did you ever notice your Firewire ports showing up in your network, and wonder why? Not only can you can also use a FireWire cable to set up a network between Mac computers, but you can use it to transfer data [...]
Which is Faster: USB or FireWire?
In response to the general question (which is faster, FireWire or USB), jorowi posts a follow-up video explaining that there, indeed, are FireWire 800 devices – specifically, in external hard drives of the high capacity variety. I’ve opted for an eSATA external drive, which should be fine for the time being. Still, if I had [...]
FireWire vs USB 2.0
Click Image to Play Video http://live.pirillo.com/ – There are many USB devices – keyboards, mice, webcams, microphones – but not nearly as many FireWire devices – mostly digital cameras. DougTech wants to know what the difference between USB 2.0 and FireWire is. FireWire and USB 2.0 use two completely different architectures and handles data in [...]
