capture from handycam via USB any loss?

[majorchaos]

I have a Sony handycam and with my previous PC it had firewire built into the motherboard and the quality of my videos was excellent when captured to PC via the firewire cable.

My new PC doesn't have firewire so I am using USB to transfer from my Handycam to PC but have noticed the picture quality is ordinary to say the least and on some captures the sound is out of sync.

Is this normal for USB?

A friend told me there should be no quality loss via USB what so ever, maybe I am doing something wrong?

I don't want to buy a firewire card if that is the case as I only have 1 pci slot left on my motherboard and would rather use it for something else that just a firewire card which i would rarely use.

Any ideas?

[Chewy]

usb can't handle dv capture very well, usually just stills

the whole technology was built on firewire

buy a TI chipset firewire card

[majorchaos]

usb can't handle dv capture very well, usually just stills

the whole technology was built on firewire

buy a TI chipset firewire card

Thanks for the reply, what is a TI chipset?

My local computer store is selling;

Description:
Fully Supports the IEEE 1394-1995 standard for high-performance Serial Bus and the P1394a Supplement (Version 2.0).
Fully compliant with OHCI requirements.
Provides P1394a fully-compliant cable ports at 100/200/400 Megabits per Second.
Includes DV capture and editing softrware (Optional)

Is TI a selling point?

[Chewy]

TI is Texas Instrument