Here's one Firewire proponent. His main argument seems to be that you can't daisy chain Ethernets. Ever since 10BASE2, true enough. In a home net that's bigger than just a single entertainment system, I'm not sure that consideration is valid, however. Bert ----------------------------------------------------- http://www.eet.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=3D187201629 Digital artists have stuck with FireWire because it works Loring Wirbel's Opinion piece "Mac artistes, get with the times" (May 1, page 4) takes a needless jab at the digital art community. This community is often an early adopter, but with FireWire the situation is different. Almost every piece of high-end AV hardware works with FireWire, and so does Apple's Final Cut Pro. You'd have to wonder why anyone would be eager to switch to a new technology (Ethernet) that, so far, has never been used for AV and exists on no AV products that I'm aware of.=20 FireWire's multipoint-to-multipoint capabilities suit it for on-location work or for any device network that frequently changes. Ethernet requires infrastructure, adding cost and complexity. I need only point to another article in the same issue ["1394 primed for home net revival," page 1] to show that FireWire still has merit and might yet deliver on its promise as a pervasive network for AV components. John P. Norair Design Engineer Proximities Inc. Melbourne, Fla. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.