Comment Re:I like USB, but... (Score 3, Informative) 255
Agreed...
People keep saying that USB 2.0 is faster then 1394a and it is, slightly. 1394b has a number of other benifits that USB doesn't have.
1. 1394 is non-computer centric. There can be any number of computers in a chain from zero to 63.
2. 1394 provides an isosyncronous mode of transmision. This is required for streaming video.
3. 1394 has better methods of bandwidth enforcement then USB
Beyond thoes benifits, 1394b supports speed up to 3.2Gbits/sec at up to 100 meters over fiber.
Another sign from the industry is that theLucent spinoff, Agere Systems, has scrapped plans to produce a USB 2.0 chipset and in order to speed development of it's 1394b chipset http://www.lucent.com/press/0701/010716.mea.html
USB 2.0 looks to be too little, too late.
People keep saying that USB 2.0 is faster then 1394a and it is, slightly. 1394b has a number of other benifits that USB doesn't have.
1. 1394 is non-computer centric. There can be any number of computers in a chain from zero to 63.
2. 1394 provides an isosyncronous mode of transmision. This is required for streaming video.
3. 1394 has better methods of bandwidth enforcement then USB
Beyond thoes benifits, 1394b supports speed up to 3.2Gbits/sec at up to 100 meters over fiber.
Another sign from the industry is that theLucent spinoff, Agere Systems, has scrapped plans to produce a USB 2.0 chipset and in order to speed development of it's 1394b chipset http://www.lucent.com/press/0701/010716.mea.html
USB 2.0 looks to be too little, too late.
