What kind of Port is this? (MBP ‘08 edition)

Micro HDMI is essentially a one way connection, outbound to a display, and nothing else.

The Mac picked up and ran with FireWire much more than any other platform ever did. so there are a lot of older FireWire items and cables available. it was a viable connection method for connecting Rotating Hard drives at speed, until SSD drives became more important.

Once you get those files, as files, onto your Mac, you can copy them, as files, to a PC. The camera is the device that "packetizes" the video for transfer via FireWire. When the data gets to the Mac, it's just a file, not Live Video that has to be dealt with in real-time.

All I want to do is be able to import my videos from my Sony Camera onto my Windows Laptop.

The cable is not the problem as cables are independent of the operating system, the issue is that the required hardware must be built in to the computer.

For a windows laptop, there are two options that will provide a connection to the iLink port on the camera:

1 - a working Firewire port built in to the laptop

2 - a Firewire express card inserted into an Express Card slot

this is an express card slot fitted with a sonnet firewire card:

this is the firewire card I use that would fit into the card slot of the computer

If you don't have either of these built in to the windows machine, you can't transfer video to the windows laptop.

Instead, if your MacBook Pro is in a working star, use the cable I described previously to transfer video from the camera to the MacBook, once thats done copy over the files from the MacBook to the Windows laptop using a USB stick or an external drive.

If your MacBook is not working, buy a used MacBook or Windows laptop with a working Firewire port, they cost as little as £150 / dollars

What cable do I need?

That information was posted last week

please post a reply with the Link to the exact cable that I’ll need to transfer my MiniDV Tapes from inside be Sony Handycam over to my MacBook Pro.

We don't know what country you are in and what stock is available on any particular day, so posting an Amazon link is of no use. Instead go into Amazon and use the search for "iLink to firewire 800 cable" and Amazon will show what is available to you locally.

This is an image of the cable:

FireWire-800.

The port to its left is FireWire-400.

The port to its right is (gigabit-capable) Ethernet.

FireWire-800 provide a "near hard drive speed" connection for external FireWire devices, such as disk enclosures. It uses "balanced drivers and receivers" on a 9-pin connector to get its increased speed over FireWire-400.

FireWire 400 uses only 6 conductors, and some camera gear uses only four by ignoring the two power pins. All are freely convertible back-and-forth with only the simplest of adapter or 'stunt cables', such as 9-pin at one end, 6-pin at the other.

Since FireWire-800 converts readily to its other forms, that cable starts at the computer end as a nine-pin FireWire-800, immediately converts to 6-pin FireWire-400, then drops to power leads to become 4-wire FireWire, suitable for cameras and similar devices.

If you go shopping for generic cables, they are often called by their number of pins, and not their speeds.

you cannot simply import "live" video. That requires a very expensive digitizer. You already have such a digitizer in the camera, which is called into play when you export via the Firwire interface, and provides packetized data rather than "live" video.

HDMI is not a two-way connection and even if it were, it would not solve the problem.

Its a Firewire 800 port, cables and adaptors are available from many computer stores and resellers online like Amazon: Firewire 800 cable

That one is an iLink connector (again its a Firewire system) to connect cameras to the Mac using this cable: iLink to Firewire 800 cable