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I have a Sony Handicam (digital video tape, not memory card/disk) and I've learned that Windows Vista doesn't have a USB driver that is compatible with the camera. (Argh!) I went online and found that a few people have had success using a firewire/iLink cable. Well, my laptop does not have a firewire connection. I found something that appears to be a thing that would go in my network card slot that would then five me two firewire/iLink connection. I'm hoping someone out there might have had any experience with this, or just knows more about computers than I do, which isn't saying much :)
Thank you to anyone who answers!