Digital Focus: Troubleshooting USB Camera Connections Daves Favorites: Movies on Your PDA With Kinoma Q&A: Will HDTV Make Me Buy a New Camcorder?
Digital Focus: Troubleshooting USB Camera ConnectionsHow to fix port problems and watch movies on a PDA, plus a great bird photo. Dave Johnson Feature: Troubleshooting USB Camera Connections I had really hoped that computer configuration issues would be a thing of the past by now. A few years back, cutting-edge gadgets like digital cameras, MP3 players, and PDAs had to connect to the PC through the ancient and inconvenient serial port. Now that the serial port mode of connecting to digital cameras and most other devices is all but gone and USB has taken center stage–and you don’t have to reboot every time you connect a new gadget–I was hoping that arcane glitches would be as rare as movies about giant, killer insects. (If you didn’t grow up watching Saturday morning movies, you should know that they were actually kind of popular for a while–trust me.) Nonetheless, I still get e-mail from readers who run into trouble getting their digital cameras to talk to Windows. If you’re in that
