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Why is firewire/IEEE1394 hard to find in HDTVs?
by AbuLafya - 11/28/06 9:45 PMIs it some kind of conspiracy? And how to attach a digital camcorder with firewire to HDTV set?
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by masterying01 - 11/28/06 9:48 PM In reply to: Why is firewire/IEEE1394 hard to find in HDTVs? by AbuLafyai can think of at least 10 tv's off the top of my head with a firewire input. a majority of toshiba, sony, samsung, mitsubishi, and jvc rear projections all of them. quite a few of flat-panels have them too.
Re: Why is firewire/IEEE1394 hard to find in HDTVs?
by AbuLafya - 11/28/06 10:02 PM In reply to: uh by masterying01I am looking at rear projection HD sets. I could find very few models. None for Sony.
Would greatly appreciate listing specific model families.
hmm
by masterying01 - 11/29/06 12:43 AM In reply to: Re: Why is firewire/IEEE1394 hard to find in HDTVs? by AbuLafyai just did a quick search on a few sites and i see no mention of the firewire input.
for a while, mitsubishi gave us a harddrive to hook up to "fake" 1080p tv's through firewire to demo 1080p. we had that hooked up to the mitsubishi dlp's (which i know for certain had firewire). we were also able to hook it up to the older toshiba dlps and xbr1 sxrd's which also had firewire. all the new ones dont appear to have it....although i havent looked in the back of them for a long time. i've been dealing a lot more with appliances lately.
Sony firewire
by AbuLafya - 11/29/06 11:50 AM In reply to: Re: Why is firewire/IEEE1394 hard to find in HDTVs? by AbuLafyaApparently, Sony now has Firewire only on the top of the line XBR2 models 60" and 70" which are too large and too expensive.
Why would you want/need firewire on a TV?
by mojorhino - 11/29/06 4:52 PM In reply to: Why is firewire/IEEE1394 hard to find in HDTVs? by AbuLafyaWhat you really want firewire on is a DVD recorder or DVR so that you could record it onto another format such as DVD or CD. They dont put them on TV's because you cant record onto a TV.
Why firewire is needed
by AbuLafya - 11/29/06 7:20 PM In reply to: Why would you want/need firewire on a TV? by mojorhinoWell, it's not absolutely needed, it just more convenient to have and more full featured.
I don't normally record directly from camera to DVD, I usually go through editing step on a PC.
However:
1. Just returned from a trip/family gathering and want to see my recent recording. Don't want to go through the edit process, waste a DVD with possibly crap, I want to see it now. Use analog RF input? No thank you very much. Be confined to PC viewing?
2. Saved an original digital tape, without the lossy mpeg compression and I want to view it in full digital detail.
It looks stupid if I need yet another device, or perhaps to get camcorder -> PC -> TV hook-up (not willing to get Windows media center either).
Why can't I simply hook-up the camcorder to the TV?
Why isn't there just one digital hookup for all video things?
Re: Mojorhino
by Derrick Fiddle - 11/30/06 9:30 PM In reply to: Why would you want/need firewire on a TV? by mojorhinoExactly. It's basically poorly spent money for a company to make their tv's with dv inputs. The quality is no better than standard a/v cables. And as Mojor was saying, they're best used on dvd recorders because of the fact that most camcorders these days have dv capability, thus making it easier to just plug it directly into your dv input and record.
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