Firewire using on existing Ethernet cable

A FireWire PCI card for your PC shouldn't cost much. I think that's what you want.

A quick search on Google for "firewire to ethernet converter" brings up all kinds of hits. Try

Carl Navarro

Yes that information i find on the internet. But what i hear from others that it is not so simply to transfer files between the dvd recorder and the pc. Thus is it possible to transfer files over an firewire cable.

Ronald

So what you really are asking is if you can control the DVD player from your computer. Never mind the interface, find a DVD player that can do that under any means and get the computer hardware that will work.

A whole lot different than the question you asked....

carl

Most Home DVD recorders with a Firewire socket only support a camcorder as input on that port. That is: you can only transfer your camcorder's recordings to DVD.

HP has a recorder (DC 3000) that possibly does something more but it lacks a tuner and won't do anything without a PC.