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To: jonkai who wrote (33872)7/10/2002 6:20:36 PM
From: Don Green  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 213182
 
Jon> do you really think Sony is going to use USB2.0 when they can use Firewire2.0 at twice the speed at the same cost, and already be downwardly compatible with its old devices?

LOL!

Did you ever think Sony would be a seller of inferior designed VHS machines? Are you even old enough to remember Betamax? Sony likes to profit and will go where the overall market takes it.



To: jonkai who wrote (33872)7/10/2002 6:37:06 PM
From: Win-Lose-Draw  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 213182
 
why does this board have so many pointless arguments?

Firewire and USB fill much different needs and the differences between the two standards have little to do with (now moot anyway) speed differences: you aren't going to plug your DV-cam into USB and you aren't going to plug a joystick into Firewire.

That is why Apple had the foresight to (again) go way ahead of the curve and support both.


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