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Hot Takes on 1394:
Updated:Tuesday, February 6, 2001

I'm having Analog Separation Anxiety and FireWire is not quite the cure all. . .

With IEEE 1394 is about to explode in a big way, what are the chances of a device (and drivers, of course) that adapt various "antique" control & sync protocol to FireWire bus?

Cris asks an expert about the future of Analog in a FireWire world. [MORE]


Got Fire? - Just Who is Onboard With FireWire?

More and more, Developers, Computer & Home Electronics Manufacturers and others are becoming IEEE 1394 Trade Association Members. If you are not aware of it the 1394TA was founded in 1994 to support the development of computer and consumer electronics systems that can be easily connected with each other via a single serial multimedia link.

We take a quick look at some of Trade Association members.

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Digital Harmony Pushes FireWire Closer to Home.
Digital Harmony's controlling middleware and GUI, the Digital Harmony Composer, can be run on Mac platforms (from MacWorld SF 2k plus more from CES Las Vegas).

"Mac users around the globe will value the ability to network an iMac into a home theater system and, with Digital Harmony, iMac owners will find the same sort of ease of use and ease of set-up that made the iMac famous," says Mark Bridgwater, vice president of marketing at Digital Harmony Technologies.

The One Cable Solution...
Greg Bartlett, CEO/President of Digital Harmony, demonstrates the handful of analog cables that are replaced with just a single Digital Harmony 1394 Cable


San Francisco Fire: Yamaha / Cubase show off O2r, mLan, G3 at Macworld Expo
We have to say, we told you so. mLAN (FireWire) was running with Cubase on a PowerMac at the Macworld Expo at San Francisco. Yamaha had an O2r mixer connected directly to the FireWire port of a G3 Macintosh running Cubase 4.1.

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Much ado about FireWire!


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