Review on 🔌 Chenyang CY USB Male to Firewire IEEE 1394 4Pin Male iLink Adapter Cord Cable for DCR-TRV75E DV - 1m USB Firewire Connector Cable by Patrick Reynolds

So there seems to be a lot of confusion about this cable and its capabilities, and many dissatisfied customers because they bought the cable without fully understanding the capabilities. Just wanted to chime in to offer some advice. .Firewire is old, old, OLD technology that's practically obsolete now. USB is still ubiquitous. This means that USB is still supported, but Firewire is not. Firewire, or IEEE1394 as it's officially called, is a data interface developed by Apple in the 1990s. This means that Apple products have always supported it much better than PCs. Firewire and USB transfer data in completely different ways, making them incompatible technologies - FireWire-only hardware cannot be read by USB-only computers and vice versa. Some technologies are compatible with Dual FireWire and USB. In order for your computer to read FireWire input, it must have a capable chipset or FireWire card. Almost all PCs would have had one (or both) of these options 5 or 10 years ago, but not now, and I highly doubt PC manufacturers build FireWire capabilities into their products. Why? Because it's an outdated technology and almost nobody uses it now. Apple still can, but I can't find any information about it. Operating systems can still work with FireWire, so you can still use FireWire devices as long as you have the right hardware configuration. If you have an old camera or whatever with a FireWire output, it's still possible to connect it to a new computer, but a cable might not be the right tool for that. The cable will only work if your computer can read the FireWire input. I have an old desktop computer with a damaged Firewire port and I'm using a cable to connect the camera and it works fine, but that's because the chipset can read that input. If you have a computer that cannot read the FireWire input, you will need to look for an alternative solution. It's not the fault of the cable - a cable can only work under certain (and in this case quite limited) parameters. An alternative would be a FireWire card. They're fairly inexpensive and can easily be plugged into a desktop computer if you have a spare slot. It's possible to do this with a Firewire card and an Express Card to USB adapter, which would be a fairly inexpensive option BUT again I'm no expert so you'll need to do more research to confirm that this is possible. I hope this is of some help!