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

["Lyle H Saxon" <llletters@example.com>]

On 7/21/07, Stuart Luppescu <slu@example.com> wrote:
> 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:

Hitachi makes some pretty good off-an-assembly-line boxes.  In fact
I've had good luck with Hitachi stuff, from my refrigerator, to my
vacuum cleaner and microwave oven.  As for Sony - yeah, I know.  I had
bad luck with a stream of Sony stuff, from video cameras, to video
decks and CD players, all of which died much too soon, so I had sworn
off of them before that root-kit stuff came out.  I have had good luck
with their TV's though.  I have a 1982 model that has never been
serviced and still works; I bought one in 1985 that worked for 16
years before a part exploded and it died in (literally) a puff of
smoke (impedance mismatch I think - it happened right after hooking
the TV up to a new antenna); and the TV I usually watch now I got
about six years ago.

> 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.

"Some" models?  Well, I'll have to be careful then, as that is the
specific reason I'll buy one if I do!  I don't currently have any
hardware that can play all those tapes I have.

> 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).

Thanks for the specifics!  I've been wanting to do something with
those tapes for some 15 years now.  I think I better get them
digitized before they degrade with age.

Lyle