Topic: What does this mean

[Lona]

I am looking the spec of my PC. What does IEEE1394 mean?  

[Sandra]

In what context Lona ie where does it say it  

[Clive]

I think it refers to a standard for low power consumption Lona.

http://www.necel.com/english/system/1394/

and

http://www.1394ta.org/Technology/index.htm

[Lona]

that second site was very interesting Clive. It seems that 1394 is the thing of the future and all appliances will have it when analogue products disappear from the shops. Well I have it and didn't know what it was. Ignorance is bliss . I don't own a digital movie camera so I don't edit movies but you never know I might become Lona Speilberg one of these days

[Adept]

1394 is more commonly known as Firewire. It is most commonly used at the moment for connecting Digital Video Cameras to PCs in order to download the movie files.

I think Sony calls it I-Link on their cameras and notebooks.

[bat69]

Its also useful for linking hi-tec audio equipment to pc for auto programming ... ie synthesizers

[Clive]

Lona Speilberg trips off the tongue very easily doesn't it?    You better start practising now but go easy on the scary stuff.

[daveeb]

you can run some (expensive) external hard drives via firewire also.  supposedly as fast as the internal ones.