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In Reply to: Pioneer does not describe it's i-Link as being firewire.
Someone on a previous thread stated he was a "professional" and had confirmed that the i link fully conformed to fire wire standard. I cannot confirm this. If someone can confirm or fefute, please do so.
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Yes, that was me. First of all:Firewire = i.link = IEEE1394
They are all the very same thing.
And yes, the Pioneer implements a fully compatible
1394 interface. Any other manufacturer can build
audio equipment to the 1394 standards and it will
interoperate with the Pioneer equipment.
the data sent over that interface may be proprietary.It may very well be 1394. But you can send whatever you want over that 1394 link, when it comes down to it. Be it DV, MLP, DSD, whatever. The protocol may conform, but if the manufacturers aren't working to make their equipment talk to eachother over that link, it isn't going to mean a thing...
between different manufacturers ? There's no point if the standard only does not address all nuances of encryption/decryption, DSD "handshaking" (as an example) etc. I at least would have thought Sony would have tried to address this. And what would be so hard to define PCM/MLP "handshaking" ? Or is this yet another example of design by committee with members having varying "agendas" ? Does not bode well for "standard" (?) digital linksExcept, somehow they made it work with DVD-V; why not hi-rez audio ?
The world does not revolve around hi-fi.IEEE1394 was an available standard that could handle the data rate (and then some.)
As to why manufacturers NEVER work together to make their equipment interoperable anymore?
I don't know. Ask a marketing guy - we've got plenty of them trolling around these boards.
Apple would not let anyone else use the term "FireWire". This has recently changed. Two years ago the electronics industry wanted to use FireWire interconnects for audio and video in consumer products. Sony was asked to work on this for the industry group. At that early stage it already found over 30 versions in the wild that did not operate with each other. Its task was to resolve interoperability problems. Thus iLink was born. Last years XBR Sony HDTV sets sported two iLink interconnects. This year's Sony sets dropped iLink and added DVI in its place and plans to switch to HDMI next year. Confussed yet?
was to ensure compatibility between manufacturers which implies something more specific for audio transmission and encryption/decryption than what is specified for IEEE1394. In fact, there was a big hullaballo when they actually agreed to the standard. If these folks acted upon the committee charter as they should have and manufacturers built to this standard, we wouldn't have compatibility issues. Fantasy world ? perhaps. :/
Oscar,It's all worked out. The standards exist. The encryption standard
can be downloaded here:http://www.dtcp.com/data/info_dtcp_v1.pdf
The audio packet standard is not available online. If you
want, I can e-mail you a copy. It covers how DSD and Hi-rez
PCM are sent on 1394.
And the current i Link Pioneers and future i Link equiped hi rez players will conform to this standard?
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