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To: shadowman who wrote (82525)	7/13/2013 3:16:28 AM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Respond to of 110631

If I had a modern desktop (vs laptop), yes, it would make sense to buy a Firewire card for it. But all my computers these days are laptops. Older laptops had PCMCIA slots. None of my newer ones have one. You would also think someone would have invented a Firewire to USB or HDMI device, but apparently they are so different it makes no sense. To make matters more complicated, even if I wanted to switch to the camcorder's streaming USB function, Sony stopped making drivers for that as of Windows 2000! One wonders, therefore, even if I did have a laptop and could install a Firewire card, if I'd run into the same Sony driver issue. Yes, I'm stuck in a time warp! - Jeff