"Firewire is currently the hot ticket interface in the multimedia world and has been for some time. This isn't surprising considering Firewire, which is also known as IEEE 1394, was developed by Apple - the kings of audio / video computing - and has a maximum data transfer throughput of 400Megabits/s or 50Mbytes/s. This is leagues faster than USB which maxes out at 12Mb/s or 1.5MB/s - no wonder why those USB webcams can be so jerky."
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