Yeah, you're *kind of* right.Drone wrote: ↑Wed Apr 28, 2021 6:58 amBut how can we say it carries it, if it requires conversion? I mean it's like saying an unbalanced out, is also a balanced out, if you use a converter. It's true that you can get a pseudo balanced signal, but I wouldn't consider it a balanced output.
Thunderbolt is, IIUC, basically an external PCI Express socket that also does USB and some other things, and as such, you can hook up virtually anything that you can hook up to a PCI Express lane. You could also just hook up an external Thunderbolt chassis and stick a PCI Express Firewire card in there. That would probably work, as well.
Nobody has built a TB3 to Firewire adapter because the only computer manufacturer who ever really embraced Firewire and stuck with it after the consumer DV cam market switched to USB-based solutions (AVCHD?) was Apple, and they started gradually dropping Firewire from newly released machines in 2008, introducing Thunderbolt on new machines in March 2011.Y'all have already confirmed that the only way to connect new laptop to old interface, is a double dongling it, but it all sounds so ludicrous, just nobody has bothered to make a Thunderbolt 3 to Firewire interface. Yet everybody still claims, oh yeah, Thunderbolt 3 is Firewire!!
By the time the first Thunderbolt 3 machines were released in late 2016, Firewire had been irrelevant to all but a tiny sliver of existing users on legacy hardware for more than half a decade.
IOW, the six people who care about ancient digital interfaces and don't also happen to have ancient computers sitting around to deal with them can buy them dongles. Nobody else cares.