Help with Mini DV cable connection to PC

2 May 2006 9:54 PM

ECLiPSE 2002

I recently purchased a Panasonic PV-GS 300 MiniDV camcorder and
dutifully read the user's manual but am confused by what I have read.
Panasonic provides a USB 2 cable with accessories, but if you want to
use the DV connection using a Firewire IEEE 1394 cable it must be
purchased separately. I do want to be able to use the Firewire
connection, but the cable that Panasonic sells for this camera is a 4
pin to 4 pin cable. My Compaq PC has a 6 pin input port.

My question is - will the 4 (camcorder) to 6 pin (PC) connection work
satisfactorily or must the two connections be the same for the
transfer to occur?

2 May 2006 10:16 PM

Gene E. Bloch

On 5/02/2006, ECLiPSE 2002 posted this:

>
> I recently purchased a Panasonic PV-GS 300 MiniDV camcorder and
> dutifully read the user's manual but am confused by what I have read.
> Panasonic provides a USB 2 cable with accessories, but if you want to
> use the DV connection using a Firewire IEEE 1394 cable it must be
> purchased separately. I do want to be able to use the Firewire
> connection, but the cable that Panasonic sells for this camera is a 4
> pin to 4 pin cable. My Compaq PC has a 6 pin input port.
>
> My question is - will the 4 (camcorder) to 6 pin (PC) connection work
> satisfactorily or must the two connections be the same for the
> transfer to occur?

No problem there. A four-pin to six-pin cable will work fine.

The extra two pins can be used for powering devices that get their
power from the connection, such as some external 2.5" hard drives, but
the signal pins exist and are compatible on both kinds of connectors.

Gino

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3 May 2006 12:50 PM

ECLiPSE 2002

Thanks for the response and advice, Gino.

Frank

On Tue, 02 May 2006 17:54:03 -0400, ECLiPSE 2002 <fdm2***@comcast.net>
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>I recently purchased a Panasonic PV-GS 300 MiniDV camcorder and
>dutifully read the user's manual but am confused by what I have read.
>Panasonic provides a USB 2 cable with accessories, but if you want to
>use the DV connection using a Firewire IEEE 1394 cable it must be
>purchased separately. I do want to be able to use the Firewire
>connection, but the cable that Panasonic sells for this camera is a 4
>pin to 4 pin cable. My Compaq PC has a 6 pin input port.
>
>My question is - will the 4 (camcorder) to 6 pin (PC) connection work
>satisfactorily or must the two connections be the same for the
>transfer to occur?

3 May 2006 7:08 PM

Gene E. Bloch

On 5/03/2006, ECLiPSE 2002 posted this:

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> Thanks for the response and advice, Gino.
>
> Frank

No problem - this might be my first useful post this year :-)

Gino

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