[LAU] Anyone used a Firewire-to-USB3 or ESATA adapter?

[david]

On 04/16/2014 03:06 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:

>> Unfair: There's an Apple Thunderbolt to FireWire Adapter! I guess that
>> will be enough to keep Firewire alive in the pro audio world.
>
> Apple owns the patent rights to firewire.  Went thru all the motions of
> publishing the specs, waited for it to take off, then decided they needed a
> per port royalty fee that was more than the hardware cost.  Firewire
> disappeared almost overnight.
>
> I have some firewire stuff, a Sony Digital Hi-8 Handy-Cam.  But when I
> built this machine back in 2008, a quad core phenom on an almost $300 ASUS
> motherboard, I had to go find a firewire card to put in it before I could
> use kino to take in the camera, edit out the worst of my shakes, and make
> dvd's out of it for all the parties involved in that wedding (and a couple
> more since). So that tells you that as far as the motherboard makers were
> concerned, firewire had priced itself out of the market already 6 years
> ago.

That they did.

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