FireWire 800 PCI Cards Coming from IOGEAR

[rayban]

Check out the upcoming firewire 800 pci cards or 1394b from IOGEAR which would double the speed of DV downloads! Yeah, baby!!!

"FireWire 800 will revolutionize the way consumers transfer digital information, most likely replacing IDE and SCSI in the years to come"

Go check it out!

http://www.camcorderinfo.com/content/iogear_firewire_800_05_01_03.htm

or

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,110533,00.asp

What do you all think...would you go for one of these?

[BJ_M]

anyone seen any external cases that support 800 yet ?

[hoyboy]

Would the 800 firewire cards actually allow you to download DV faster than realtime? or does it stay the same!. If it stays the same, the 400 card I have does the job fine.

[Faustus]

I know Lacie sells drives already packaged in Firewire 800 cases, until now they were mainly for Mac peeps but now it looks like everyone gets in on the fun.

woowoo! fw800 here I come.

[arcorob]

VERY MISLEADING.

For storage applications, bandwidth utilization may show measurable results, but for video capture ? NOT. What is going to make your camera deliver the data at a faster speed ? Nothing. So the article saying that DV capture can be done in half the time is misleading.

[BJ_M]

As in digital SDI video transfer - there will be double speed DV transfer ... since its a digital transfer , it doesnt need to go in real time .. the limiting factor really is how fast can it read off the tape reliably ..

[MOVIEGEEK]

"FireWire 800 will revolutionize the way consumers transfer digital information, most likely replacing IDE and SCSI in the years to come"

Not likely because Firewire 800 has the same bus speed as ATA100(100MBps),ATA133 is faster(133MBps).