You're right, I downloaded the PC7 manual and it was written way back in 1996. So there were definitely Firewire camcorders back in the mid 90s when were were trudging along with our ~200mhz processors and Windows 95 (yuck!)
However it was also a $3800 (Canadian) camera, definitely high on the pro-sumer side, but Firewire was available in 1996 if you wanted to pay for it ;) http://www.technofile.com/articles/sonydigicam.html <http://www.technofile.com/articles/sonydigicam.html> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Rieni <[email protected]> wrote: > > > In 1998 I had to spend a lot of money in an external 27GB drive with > SCSI connection for my DraCo NLE system, resolution was SD, > compression was motion-JPEG and I think it could hold about 1 hour of video > :-) > > Today when talking about my 2TB drives I often make the mistake of > saying 2GB and then realizing that 2TB actually is 2000 GB! Yes we're > definately spoiled today :-) > > James, to answer your question about what Sony DV camera I used, I > had to google it, but it was the tiny PC7 which was released after > the legendary VX1000, some more info can be found here: > > http://www.dvcentral.org/dvwhat.html > > Rieni > > > At 29-9-2010 17:39, James wrote: > >Sony DCR-TRV900 MiniDV had i.LINK and reviews on Amazon from customers in > >March 2000 > >http://www.amazon.com/Sony-DCRTRV900-Handycam-Digital-Camcorder > ><http://www.amazon.com/Sony-DCRTRV900-Handycam-Digital-Camcorder> > >It's funny to read people complain about 16GB for a hour of video and > having > >to "order a 37GB drive an additional 75GB drive on backorder" > > > >FYI a IBM Deskstar 75GB hard drive was the largest hd money could buy at > >$530+ in July 2000 > > > http://web.archive.org/web/20000815201345/www.pricewatch.com/1/26/2297-1.htm > > > >boy are we spoiled! ;) Anyway, if Sony was delaying Firewire for 3 years > >I'm glad they did. 1ghz didn't come out until late 2000, I can't imagine > >trying to edit video on a 1997 PC > >http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=502 > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
