[geeks] Whee! Lightning strikes, AGAIN!

[Joshua Boyd]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 04:40:05PM -0400, Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> On Jul 28, 2009, at 11:59 , Joshua Boyd wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:39:16AM -0400, nate at portents.com wrote:
>>
>>> There used to be a lot of buzz that Firewire was going to become *the*
>>> home audio/video interconnect, and it would have been brilliant.  64
>>> devices supported, isochronous transfers supported, device-to-device
>>> direct communication, the option to run TCP/IP over it, etc.
>>
>> It would NOT have been great.  Firewire has no where near the bandwidth
>> needed, not even the new FW 1600 that isn't actually out yet.
>>
>> It would have been a nightmare.
>
> It's faster and more reliable than anything else we had then or now, so 
> where is the nightmare?

How is FW800 faster or more reliable at moving the 355 megabytes per
second to display a 1920x1080 8 bit RGB image at 59.97 frames per second
on a LCD panel?  

> What we have now is certainly a nightmare, and while firewire is not 
> perfect, it would be a lot better than the utter garbage we have now.

It's complete inability to even begin to do the job means that the
garbage we have now is better at what it does than FW is.