Some (all?) DV camcorders transfer the raw DV data over Firewire but recompress the video when tranferring over USB. DV camcorders are really meant to be used with Firewire.

A colleague has just bought a shiny new Canon MV450i camcorder. Unfortunately, his laptop doesn't have a FireWire port. I figure he should buy a PCMCIA adapter to give him FireWire ports, but is it ...

Peter Kirn from Create Digital Music disagrees with Steve Jobs alleged statement that "all new HD camcorders use USB" in response to the death of Firewire kerfuffle. Whether Jobs said it or not, isn't ...

The HV30 records high-quality HD video to old-fashioned tape. Canon’s tape-based Vixia HV30 camcorder ($1000 as of September 28, 2008) combines the aging medium with modern image processing to lay ...

The D-Link High Speed USB 2.0 and FireWire Combo PCI Adapter accomplishes several things at once. First, it adds both USB 2.0 and FireWire ports to the motherboard. Second, because it's a combo card, ...

The new Canon MVX150i MiniDV camcorder combines a 1.3 megapixel sensor with a high-quality Canon 16x optical zoom lens (with 320x digital zooming and image stabilisation). March 2003: The new Canon ...

Apple’s newest consumer laptop is a package full of shiny power, but it also lacks a FireWire port. That means no FireWire Target Disk Mode, no support for external hard drives with FireWire ...

In one of his characteristically terse email replies, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs has reportedly told one Mac user that changes in video camera technology have reduced the need for FireWire on ...

Sony today took the wraps off the DCR-PC9, its latest Mini DV Handycam camcorder. The unit incorporates expanded capacity, MPEG movie capability and USB support, along with support for IEEE-1394, ...

I've been a tech journalist for almost 25 years and started Pocket-lint in 2003. Over the years I've questioned or interviewed leading tech industry figures from Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer, Mark ...

Microsoft will not support a budding peripheral-connection standard in its forthcoming Windows XP operating system, instead favoring a technology developed by Apple Computer. The Redmond, Wash.-based ...