Help with Connecting a DV Camera to USB

If you have a spare PCI slot I suggest you buy a firewire card. I bought one on eBay a couple weeks ago for about $18, which included the shipment from Singapore, and it came with a cable having the camera sized connector on one end. Also came with a video editor on a CD.

Don

That's a pretty good deal indeed. I forgot to mention that my PC is a notebook, so a notebook card is a little more expensive than a desktop card. But, we're talking about only $10 to $20 more. I can certainly go that route.

I am curious though, if someone could explain to me in layman's terms, why a Firewire to USB cable will not work for transferring digital video? I understand that it would transfer at the lower speed of USB, but is that not fast enough to transfer digital video?

Thanks...

I could be wrong, but I suspect the real problem is a protocol difference between the two interfaces.

Don

I've located a cable that has a chip in it that will do the job, however it's $90 compared to the $4 cable on eBay. You can see it here, if you are interested:

In the meantime i have bought a PCMCIA firewire card for $37 and a 4pin to

Jason