Vista to support 1394b, aka FireWire 800
One of the best ways to send HD material between devices is 1394, for one it has tons of bandwidth, it is very versatile and has good industry support. We are not sure why it isn't included in more TVs especially considering that so many TVs include ATSC tuners. We don't subscribe to the evil MPAA theory, but we don't have a better explanation either.Either way we are glad to have the new faster version included in Vista, not because we need the extra throughput, but because of the distance that 1394 over CAT5 gives us. 1394b combined with a network technology like HANA has alot of promise and OS support is the first of many pieces that must come together to give us the whole home media nirvana that we all dream of, now we just need 5C support.
Thanks Julie
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Adam @ May 11th 2006 8:31AM
We're not sure what HANA's plans are, but we are supporting 5C already, not to mention full 1394 networking of HD in the home... we are of course thrilled that Microsoft has built 1394B support into Vista.
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Erik @ May 13th 2006 11:24AM
FireWire (IEEE 1394)'s AV/C protocol specifies that you push MPEG2 to TVs and other display devices. This means that you have to have an MPEG2 decoder there, which no other connector requires. This adds cost, and reduces flexibility (DBS is going MPEG4 as fast as they can in order to save/shave bandwidth and offer more HD, but if they had to use AV/C over FW, they'd have to transcode MPEG4 into MPEG2, rather than just decode).
I think it was just a cost issue.
santiago @ Jun 18th 2006 1:44PM
1394 is the only way you can record HDTV to D-VHS . They don't want us to record. Also it's two way audio video and control. who he hell wnts HDMI . It's so touchy it won't even let you watch much less record.I WANT MY IEEE1394 back.