Interesting Point on Printing Timecode via Firewire

Just perusing the FCP manual and saw this on page IV-197:
Note: If you are outputting to DVCPRO HD via FireWire, the timecode recorded to the tape can start from the existing tape timecode or you can choose to create new timecode on the tape based on the sequence timecode. If you choose this option, the timecode written to tape is the same as the sequence timecode.
So that suggests that timecode can be carried via FW, so why would they not still allow it on other formats? How much easier things would be...

i can black and code a tape in my jvc vtr through the rs422 pipeline with tc i specifiy in fcp, provided the tc generator in my machine is set to preset. so, if i can do that, i find it extremely frustrating that i cannot use edit to tape to assemble edit on my vtr with fcp sequence timecode. of course the very weird thing with my vtr is i cannot get edit to tape to work at all. the machine sends me an error code saying there is no firewire video. print to tape always works, unless fcp is crashing the way it was several nights ago. geesh.

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How can I get FCP 7 to send the timecode via firewire to my HVX200A using a DV recording setup options on the camera?

But I can send the time code from both a 720P/24P sequence and a NTSC DV sequence using the 720P/60P FCP video playback setup to the Panasonic HVX200A using the camera recording setup 720P/60P.
If I change the starting timecode for my active sequence from 01:00:00:00 to 03:00:00:00 and press play, the timecode sent to the camera displays the correct hh:mm:ss:ff starting with 03.
So you can output timecode using HD settings. And you can send a DV sequence to the same HD settings and see that DV timecode. Although, the DV frame is surrounded by black on all sides.
But why can't you output a DV timecode to a DV setup HVX200A?
Also, if you wanted to create a DV tape using the filters that burn a visual timecode to the tape, don't you need to be sure that you can send the timecode with video so that they are in sync when recorded? You wouldn't want the camcorder to provide timecode that doesn't exactly match the burned to image timecode?

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