[MacDV] Digital8 to MiniDV conversion

[Gerhard Kuhn]

Mark why don't you see if you have a relative, friend or work colleague that has digital 8 camera and see if they would lend it to you for a while.  I borrowed a camera after I found a couple old 8mm analog tape that I had not converted to Mini DV.

Worst thing they could say is no

Gerhard


On Tuesday, August 03, 2004, at 01:28PM, Mark O'Brien <rmobrien at mac.com> wrote:

>With 35-40 hours of Digital8 footage, my Sony DCR-TRV110 Digital8 camcorder has gone on the fritz. The repair shop is quoting me $330 for a new drum, due to some kind of contamination they can't clean off.
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>Recognizing MiniDV will be around and supported longer than Digital8, I had already upgraded to a newer Panasonic PVDV953 3CCD MiniDV camcorder. I had considered dubbing my Digital8 tapes to MiniDV for archival purposes, using a 4 pin-4 pin Firewire cable. Unfortunately, I hadn't gotten around to it before the Sony went bad. :-(
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>So my choices are to:
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>A) Spend the $330 to repair my 1999 model Sony ($50 diagnostic fee already paid would be applied to the repair)
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>B) Spend $380 for a new Sony DCR-TRV460 (Best Buy's online price)
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>C) Pay some third party to convert the 35-40 Digital8 cassettes for me and trash the old Sony.
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>I've seen a lot of traffic on this list referring to converting old movies (film) to MiniDV, but never Digital8 to MiniDV. Does anybody know of a service that does this?
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>Mark
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