Help about i.Link cable for Sony camcorders pls!!?

Question

I have Sony camcorder model - HCR-DC30E

i downloaded a new software for my vista to get the videos on here. But now they wont import the videos cos i dont have a i.Link cable, before i didnt need that. and it is not supplied.

I looked at some of the cables on sony site but there are quite a few I dont know which are compatible!

Please help! until then all my videos are stuck on the camcorder!

Answer 1

first you have to know how may pins your computer's firewire port uses. it would be either a 4-pin or a 6-pin.  compare your camcorder's ilink port with that of the computer.  if the size is the same then chances are it's a 4-pin.  if it's slightly bigger then it's 6-pin.

the camcorder uses 4-pin.  so if your computer has 4-pin then you would need a 4-pin to 4-pin ilink cable.. something like in the link

http://www.sony.co.uk/view/ShowProduct.a...

if your computer uses 6 pin, then you would need a 4-pin to 6-pin cable similar to this:

http://www.sony.co.uk/view/ShowProduct.a...