are 120-minute mini-dv tapes available?

[sb]

Other choices: Digital 8 tape, or going to the large size DV cassettes,
which means a deck that can accept them.

 sb

On 1/29/04 1:49 PM, "James Asherman" <jimash at optonline.net> wrote:

> 
> On Thursday, January 29, 2004, at 04:46  PM, Malcolm Hamilton wrote:
> 
>> Hi everyone -
>> I've got to transfer 175 (approx.) Hi-8 tapes to mini-dv (archiving my
>> family movies).  It'll be a tedious project regardless, but it would
>> sure make life easier if my Hi-8 tapes and mini-dv tapes were of equal
>> length.
>> As it is, most of my Hi-8 tapes are 120 minutes long.  And as far as I
>> know, the only mini-dv tapes I can get are just 60 minutes (best
>> quality).  This means I'm going to have to time everything, and make
>> sure I'm at my desk at the 60-minute point.  And check, and rewind,
>> etc., etc.
>> 
>> Does anyone know if 120-minute mini-dv tapes are available somewhere,
>> or if they're on the horizon?
>> 
>> By the way - I can get Maxell mini-dv tapes at a good price compared
>> to Sony's.  Are they as good?  (I'll just be recording on these tapes
>> once)
>> Cheers,
>> Malcolm
>> 
> 
> http://www.tapestockonline.com/sondv80minpr.html
> 
> That's what you want.
> Have a good day Mal,
> Jim