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Digital Betacam Player with Firewire
i-Link outputs

Plays back Betacam, Betacam SP and Betacam SX, DigiBeta and MPEG-2 IMX formats. It features a jog shuttle dial to enable easy searching, and handles both S and L-size cassettes. Has SDI and firewire outputs for capturing. Perfect for digitizing to Quicktime or to Final Cut Pro and Avid.
RS-232 Control
EIA Recommended Standard 232 was first introduced in 1962 to help ensure connectivity and compatibility across manufactures for simple serial data communications. Its strongest application was, and still is, peripheral connectivity for PCs, which went beyond modems and printers to many different handheld devices and instruments of today.
RS-232's capabilities have been stretched somewhat from the original slow rate of up to 20 kbps to over 1 Mbps for some applications today. Still, RS-232 is intended for short cable runs, or local data transfers in a range up to 50 feet.

A factor that limits the distance of reliable data transfer using RS-232 is the signaling technique that it uses. It is often referred to as "single ended". That means that communication occurs over a single wire referenced to ground, the ground wire serving as a second wire.