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How do you upload tape nowadays to your computer?

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- February 23, 2011 at 9:17 PM #44401
  
  comatoad
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  I recently bought an HP Pavilion dv7-4173us notebook to help edit my videos on. I shoot tape, and lo and behold when it was time to upload my tapes onto my computer for editing, I discovered the computer didn’tcome witha firewire, or 1394 port.
  
  I went to my local big-box retail electronics store, and was told that a $50+ octopus plug would be able to link from my Sony DSR-V10 tape player’s firewire plug into the USB port on my computer. Guess what happened when I got home — it didn’t work.
  
  Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions. I enjoy shooting tape and I recently bought a canon GL1 camaera, so I’m not looking to buy a disk-based camera anytime soon.
- February 23, 2011 at 10:50 PM #185941
  
  Daryl
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  Does the computer have a card slot? it used to be that if you did not have a firewire port you could get a fire wire card that slid into the card slot and then you would have firewire.
- February 28, 2011 at 1:53 AM #185942
  
  Anonymous
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  I never got -any- of the cable converter soltutions to work. Got a $35 firewire card from BestBuy and never looked back.
- February 28, 2011 at 3:10 AM #185943
  
  Daryl
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  Thats what I am talking about
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