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Airlink sounds very useful; especially if it can be controlled from inside other programs via Arexx. Just last night I went to a friend's house. He has VideoDirector (sp) from Gold Disk. It is software, a serial cable ending in a minijack and a joyport cable ending in an IR transmitter/receiver. We trained the IR link for a VHS deck and plugged the jack into a Sony V99 camcorder "remote" socket. The program lets you use the V99 (or any Lan-c compatible deck) as a source. The time "code" is displayed on the screen along with buttons for all the transport functions. A-B roll type assembly is easy with this setup. Simply mark start and end points for each edit. It makes a list with the names you supply. When you have them all marked and in order just click on "assemble" and it shuttles the source deck, pre-rolls the record deck and copies the segments in order. We got decent results the first time! At less than $200 to add decent editing for someone with a camcorder (lan-c only) and almost any other deck this sounds like a good product. The remote device might even be the same one you bought but marketed by Gold Disk. It also works with variable burst and continuous triggering. Won't transmit through a beer bottle tho. B^) ….Mark 74335,1677