Targeting the higher bandwidth, longer cables, and new applications associated with next-generation IEEE 1394 technologies, the 1394b line of sockets and cables promise reliable data transfers. The ...

Throughout 2001, despite the recession in the electronics and semiconductor industry, the IEEE 1394 multimedia standard made significant progress. It emerged as the definitive bus for audio and video ...

Personal video recorders and similar set-top boxes record digital data to an internal hard-disk drive for playback either seconds later in a time-shifting application or months later in a video ...

Convergence, or the merging of applications, features, and functions, has been an ongoing trend in consumer electronics and PCs. Such convergence is most notable at the system interface. One interface ...