Re: [tlug] Linux / MacOS X and dv cameras

[Stuart Luppescu <slu@example.com>]

On 土, 2007-07-21 at 01:14 +0900, Lyle H Saxon wrote:
> Whoa!!  Hey!!!  Chotto matta!!  Maji ka yo!!!  A digital camera that
> will play old analogue 8mm tapes?  And will output the video
> digitally?  Really?  Banzai! - Banzai!! - BANZAI!!!!!  I spent vast
> amounts of time taking hundreds of hours of tape around 1990 and since
> all of my analogue 8mm tape machines are broken, I've been wondering
> how I'm going t get that material digitized..... 

Well, to do this you will have to sell your soul to the devil and buy a
Sony product. (I bought mine before the rootkit fiasco happened.) This
article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camcorder explains:

Digital8 (1999), that uses Hi8 tapes (Sony is the only company currently
producing D8 camcorders, though Hitachi used to). Some models of Digital
8 cameras have the ability to read older Hi8 analog format tapes. The
format's technical specifications are of the same quality as MiniDV
(both use the same DV codec), and although no professional-level
Digital8 equipment exists, D8 has been used to make TV and movie
productions (example: Hall of Mirrors).

My camcorder, a TRV-240 IIRC, has this capability, as well as the
TRV-350 (see http://www.videomaker.com/article/9491/ ). Don't know about
any camcorders being marketed at present that can do this (but I haven't
looked). 
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