8mm camcorder tapes?

Question

hi i wonder can anyone help.i got an old cannon video camera.that used 8mm tapes.now the camera is broke but i got afew tapes with recordings on i would like to put on to disc or my pc.but the problem i got is that i need like a 8mm tape player to use to transfer them.does anyone know if there is a player i can get and where to or how i can get around this problem.thanks in advance for any ideas thank you.

Answer 1

lend a compatible 8mm camcorder and capture it that way via a tv capture card...only thing is sometimes other camcorders play at different speeds.

Answer 2

>>All you need to do is find any Digital8 camcorder.

The Digital8 camcorder can read all of the 8mm tapes,and you can find them for very cheap or borrow one for free. The Digital8 camcorder also comes with a Firewire port allowing easy video capture using Windows Movie Maker or iMovie.<<

Not true. It was true once that any Digital8 camcorder could read a Video-8 or Hi-8 and convert it inline to digital and send the signal up a FireWire cable to a computer for editing, but that's no longer the case. Sony now makes only one D8 camcorder, and that one can't backwards-convert. This time next year there won't be any new D8 camcorders on the market.

Answer 3

All you need to do is find any Digital8 camcorder.

The Digital8 camcorder can read all of the 8mm tapes,and you can find them for very cheap or borrow one for free.  The Digital8 camcorder also comes with a Firewire port allowing easy video capture using Windows Movie Maker or iMovie.