Posted by Steve King on 04/09/07 21:36

<davesvideo@aol.com> wrote in message
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> On Apr 9, 12:40 pm, "Gene" <g...@wildblue.net> wrote:
>> The Sony
>> brand camcorders of either Digital-8, or miniDV will
>> crash when trying to copy via the firewire to a Panasonic
>> ES20 or ES46V player/recorder box.
>
> I find this very puzzeling. As far as I know the recorder boxes are
> input only, so with no return signal, how does the Sony know that
> there is even anything hooked up to the other end of the firewire. I
> can see that there could be a reason that it might not copy correctly,
> but to cause the Sony to crash is very strange. Can anyone suggest a
> scenario how this could happen?
>
> Dave

Can't help with the crash. But, don't many DVD Recorders have the
capability to send deck commands TO the camera? Certainly software capture
programs do. Could the implementation of that be involved?

Steve King

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