An Introduction to USB
USB is the shortened name for Universal Serial Bus which is a versatile port (connection) on PC’s. It can function as a serial, parallel, mouse, keyboard or joystick port.
The Universal Serial Bus was originally developed in 1995 by many of the leading companies. The major goal of USB was to define an external expansion bus, which would make adding peripherals to a PC as easy as hooking up a telephone to the wall socket.
Although this strictly does not come under the heading of Audio Video, we thought it important to mention as many Video to PC and vice versa conversion boxes connect through this port.
There are two types of USB.
| USB - Version 1.1 |
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was the first port(s) fitted to PC’s. |
| USB - Version 2.0 |
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the next generation, which is 40 times faster than USB1.1 with a transfer rate of 480Mbps. |
USB 2.0 will allow all sort of new and improved USB devices to be added to the USB Product Line-Up such as fast disc drives, CDRW’s, High Quality Video Camera’s, Digital Still Camera’s and Scanners.
For capturing video on to your PC via USB2 see: SDPVR.
For other video – PC Interfaces see: PC to Video, PVR's, Video to PC. | 
