[LAU] Successor/replacement for RME HDSP+Multiface?

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 28 August 2014 21:14:48 Kaza Kore did opine
And Gene did reply:
> > From: gheskett at wdtv.com
> > To: linux-audio-user at lists.linuxaudio.org
> > Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 20:37:53 -0400
> > Subject: Re: [LAU] Successor/replacement for RME HDSP+Multiface?
> >
> >...Hi-8 tape...
> 
> I thought we were talking about the future here! The 80s wants its
> property back!!
> 
> Also Hi8 is an analogue format so everything in the post is plain
> bollocks! Maybe you meant Digital8?? Still 15 years old and any tape
> format is pretty much dead and definitely not the future!

Not this one, it uses metal tape in the same casette as a Hi-8 would use, 
but about a tenner more expensive. and is "digital Hi-8" format.

Reasonably sharp too at 720p.  Go look it up, its a Sony HandyCam DCR-
TRV460 NTSC. and about 11 years old IIRC.  And one of the first with 
lithium batteries.  I can't quickly find the charger, but after laying for 
at least 2 years, it still fires right up.

I have shot several weddings with it, processed it down to fit on a dvd 
using kino and sold the disks several times now.  Many many times sharper 
than a vhs deck.


> USB2 really doesn't perform that less well than most Firewire,
> especially with the low quality chipsets this protocol often seems to
> go through (whether the actual Firewire chipset, or the PCI(e) chipset
> that an adaptor hangs off. Biggest problem is finding a port which
> isn't shared with other devices, and many internal devices often share
> USB Hubs/Ports so it doesn't only depend on what you connect yourself.
> 
> If USB is not good enough for you (higher requirement for number of
> duplex channels for example) then go the route of PCI(e)/ExpressCard,
> or wait and see how USB3 develops over the coming months/years,
> although so far it seems pretty slow.


Cheers, Gene Heskett
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