> From: gheskett@wdtv.com
> To: linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org
> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 22:45:41 -0400
> Subject: Re: [LAU] Successor/replacement for RME HDSP+Multiface?
>
> On Thursday 28 August 2014 21:14:48 Kaza Kore did opine
> And Gene did reply:
> > > From: gheskett@wdtv.com
> > > To: linux-audio-user@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.

So not Hi8 then! :p (If you look I did mention Digital8 too.) Not sure where you get the idea it's 720P capable! Specs on website state 640x480 and you even state in the name you provided it's NTSC, which is never 720P, same as PAL and SECAM aren't. They are old, SD standards. 720/1080 P/I are very different beasts really.

Anyway it's probably more important to talk about the standardised DV25 and DV50 protocol all these commercial/prosumer products use for communication that tape/card formats. There are some Sony and Panasonic camera that do this fine over USB so it's not impossible or a problem with USB itself. I see yours (and apparently many others) claim to have some kind of USB Streaming but for some reason it's not usually full quality, as you would get from Firewire. Wonder why...