Response Part III. Bottom line is that if you have a new laptop and you need to retrieve data from a Sony camera tape, firewire is only going to work if your laptop has the port. If it doesn't you will probably need consider seriously a video capture device if you insist on using your laptop.
Response Part II. I finally decided to use my old windows xp PC and purchased a firewire card. The process worked fine there and I was able to use my SIMA card to transfer the data. If the laptop has an old PCMCIA drive bay, that is another alternative to get firewire data out of the video cameras. The fact is that it is not very hard to find one of these cards in flea bay.
Response Part I. I purchased this wire with several purposes in mind, one of them was to connect my old Sony Camera to retrieve some Digital 8 videos that I had there. I ended up finding out that this firewire/usb card was not exactly a firewire to usb converter. Later I purchased a firewire/usb card, that my computer was able to recognize a device being connected, but the truth is that without a driver it doesn't make sense to attempt to retrieve video data from the camera using a usb port.
Part 1 - I wish I would have seen this before I spent $57.99 at Best Buy today. I have been there twice to try to find a cable that will work with my new HP TouchSmart 600 desktop (Windows 7 64-bit that does not have a firewire port and it is NOT expandable
Part 2 - - I contacted Geek Squad and sent them all the specs for a firewire card which they told me would work -- PCI Express - then when it didn't work, took the desktop (all-in-one monitor/cpu) into the Geek Squad at Best Buy and they confirmed that you cannot install a firewire card. My PC does not recognize my Sony Handycam DCR-HC52 using the mini firewire to USB cable.
Part 3 - Before this, Geek Squad rec I am so sick of going to Best Buy and contacting Geek Squad when nothing works! My desktop is only 6 months old. When I purchased it, Best Buy said the PCI express slot could support a firewire card.
Response Part III. Bottom line is that if you have a new laptop and you need to retrieve data from a Sony camera tape, firewire is only going to work if your laptop has the port. If it doesn't you will probably need consider seriously a video capture device if you insist on using your laptop.
gwmadrigal 1 year ago
Response Part II. I finally decided to use my old windows xp PC and purchased a firewire card. The process worked fine there and I was able to use my SIMA card to transfer the data. If the laptop has an old PCMCIA drive bay, that is another alternative to get firewire data out of the video cameras. The fact is that it is not very hard to find one of these cards in flea bay.
gwmadrigal 1 year ago
Response Part I. I purchased this wire with several purposes in mind, one of them was to connect my old Sony Camera to retrieve some Digital 8 videos that I had there. I ended up finding out that this firewire/usb card was not exactly a firewire to usb converter. Later I purchased a firewire/usb card, that my computer was able to recognize a device being connected, but the truth is that without a driver it doesn't make sense to attempt to retrieve video data from the camera using a usb port.
gwmadrigal 1 year ago
Part 1 - I wish I would have seen this before I spent $57.99 at Best Buy today. I have been there twice to try to find a cable that will work with my new HP TouchSmart 600 desktop (Windows 7 64-bit that does not have a firewire port and it is NOT expandable
ginafromtampa 1 year ago
Part 2 - - I contacted Geek Squad and sent them all the specs for a firewire card which they told me would work -- PCI Express - then when it didn't work, took the desktop (all-in-one monitor/cpu) into the Geek Squad at Best Buy and they confirmed that you cannot install a firewire card. My PC does not recognize my Sony Handycam DCR-HC52 using the mini firewire to USB cable.
ginafromtampa 1 year ago
Part 3 - Before this, Geek Squad rec I am so sick of going to Best Buy and contacting Geek Squad when nothing works! My desktop is only 6 months old. When I purchased it, Best Buy said the PCI express slot could support a firewire card.
ginafromtampa 1 year ago