[opendtv] Letter to EE Times on Firewire

Here's one Firewire proponent.

His main argument seems to be that you can't daisy chain Ethernets. Ever
since 10BASE2, true enough. In a home net that's bigger than just a
single entertainment system, I'm not sure that consideration is valid,
however.

Bert

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http://www.eet.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=3D187201629

Digital artists have stuck with FireWire because it works

Loring Wirbel's Opinion piece "Mac artistes, get with the times" (May 1,
page 4) takes a needless jab at the digital art community. This
community is often an early adopter, but with FireWire the situation is
different. Almost every piece of high-end AV hardware works with
FireWire, and so does Apple's Final Cut Pro. You'd have to wonder why
anyone would be eager to switch to a new technology (Ethernet) that, so
far, has never been used for AV and exists on no AV products that I'm
aware of.=20

FireWire's multipoint-to-multipoint capabilities suit it for on-location
work or for any device network that frequently changes. Ethernet
requires infrastructure, adding cost and complexity. I need only point
to another article in the same issue ["1394 primed for home net
revival," page 1] to show that FireWire still has merit and might yet
deliver on its promise as a pervasive network for AV components.

John P. Norair
Design Engineer
Proximities Inc.
Melbourne, Fla.
 
 
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