I once bought a USB to Firewire adapter on eBay, and it did NOT work transferring video from a high-end digital video camera that can only download video to a computer via firewire (IE1394) cable.
The device was apparently a scam -- after googling the subject and reading extensively, it appears that it is impossible to transfer video data from such an adapter because of the drastically different characteristics of USB vs. firewire. The only solution I could come up with was downloading the video on a desktop computer that DID have a firewire port, burning the contents on a DVD, then transfering the video onto my Apire 7750G through the DVD drive -- this, however, was a major hassle and made little sense, cause i could just as well do the video editing on the computer that had the firwire port and avoid the DVD transfer process.
I love the Aspire 7750G laptop, but consider this lack of a firewire port, or the ability to add one due to lack of a PCMCIA slot, a MAJOR shortcoming in a machine that would otherwise be very capable of video editing. Newer consumer-model video cameras have the ability to download via USB due to compressed (i.e., lower quality) video formats used, but on older/better video cameras that record in uncompressed/higher quality AVI format, you gotta have a firewire port to download.
The Aspire 7750G does, however, have a slot on the front for reading SDHC cards, and I read once that a firewire adapter was made that plugs into that port, but have never been able to confirm that fact or locate such an adapter. So please, someone at ACER, can you tell us if indeed such an adapter exists, and where to find it??
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