[MacDV] Re: -Digital8 to MiniDV conversion-MacDV- MacDV Digest #3553

[Benjamin Ing]

Unfortunately, Sony is the only company that supports D8, whereas 
MiniDV has a few different manufacturers. Sony has a good history of 
supporting "non-standard" formats, but even Beta died a slow agonizing 
death before finally being put out of its misery, whereas VHS decks are 
still being sold. The biggest issue in any of this hardware is how long 
the wind motors will last, and having to rely on a single vendor for 
product (who will likely pare down their line to a single model as they 
also standardize on MiniDV) makes the future of being able to play back 
tapes dicey. Even now, I try to only use my D8 camcorder under machine 
control when I am loading tapes in my editor and am very careful to 
always use a winder to rewind tapes.

On Aug 6, 2004, at 8:56 AM, Ted Langdell wrote:

> I can understand your feelings that Mini-DV decks will be produced 
> after D8 decks may be off the market.