Fully Backwards Compatible
IEEE 1394b cables by Cables To Go are the latest in Firewire technology. IEEE 1394b or Firewire 800 cables are perfect for connecting your new Firewire 1394b devices to your legacy 1394a ports! 1394b is the new standard for transporting and networking multiple types of digital data between users and systems. But this doesn?t mean you can?t use your legacy devices or ports. These cables are backwards compatible ensuring continued use of your Digital Video (DV) camcorders, scanners, printers, videoconferencing cameras, and fixed-disk drives. With Windows Me® or Apple's FireWire Target Disk Mode you can also use an IEEE-1394b cable to connect two computers together to allow for file sharing.
IEEE-1394b cables from Cables To Go provide you with the quality you need to achieve high-speed performance you expect from your IEEE-1394 devices. These cables are designed to be 100% compatible with Apple Firewire®, Sony iLink®, and all other IEEE-1394 peripherals. Twisted pair cabling and shielded construction ensures Cables To Go's IEEE-1394b Cables meet or exceed current IEEE-1394b standards.
Features
- Connectors: 9-pin Male to 4-pin Male
Data Transfer Speeds: 400 Mbps
- Backward Compatible: Connects Firewire 800 devices to legacy 1394a ports
- Supports Plug n Play operation
- Hot Pluggable
- Molded strain relief ensures years of trouble-free data transmissions
- IEEE Standard 1394b compliant
- Application: Video presentation and editing, desktop and commercial publishing, document imaging, home multimedia, personal computing
- Designed for: Digital camcorders, scanners, printers, storage devices and other Firewire devices
- Compatibility: PC, Mac, Sun and other IEEE-1394 equipped computers
- Weight: .25 lbs
Product Reviews
This cable has a metal housing at the 800 firewire end and about a week after using it successfully I plugged it into my laptop and a spark shot out, frying my port. I had to have the logic board replaced. Stupidly, I tried it in another device and it destroyed that port too and the device (an external hard drive).