Plz doez anyone know wat im talking about ??? can u buy a vhs tape that u put a mini dv tape...

Question

into so u can watch it via vhs,,,,,,, i dont know whether u still can but i remember on my mums old camera she used to get her caset out and put inside a vhs tape and straight into the video player. i hav a video camera that takes the mini dv tapes and i am wanting to make it easier to watch them on tv. please if anyone out there knows what im talking about plz let me know where i could get this from within aust????

Answer 1

yeah you can buy it any video camera shop in your town.

Answer 2

Well in layman terms - you saw your mom do that to a Hi8 cassette. you could pop it into a VHS adapter or if it was a really long ago - it could have been a direct VHS tape from the camcorder (pre 1987 - SONY)

But in the case of  miniDV it's a whole new ball game - the video is written  (in layman terms) - pure digital and uncompressed for higher video quality - it can't be decoded by a VCR or VCP. So not direct adapters.

The best solutions for you are:

1) Hook up the Camcorder to the TV with the cables provided (red goes to red, white goes to white :) )

2) Capture the video to your computer using movie maker (if your cam has a USB port) or get someone to do it for you - and burn it for you to a DVD. This will get you a much higher in the video. (which is the whole point of using miniDV's)

Best of luck.

Regards

Hari Krishnan

Hari Somanath

Answer 3

VHS is analogue, it uses several radio signals recorded onto a magnetic tape.

Your mother's old camera used VHS-C tapes, which is a compact standard of the regular VHS, developed in 1982.

MiniDV is a digital tape. Frames are recorded onto the tape as binary data. The tapes contain bit tracking information too, for alignment. Each tape stores about 10-15 gb of data.

For starters miniDV is digital, VHS is analogue. An analogue tape will not work in a digital vcr or vice versa.

There is no such adapter, never existed and will never exist.

If you try to force a miniDV tape into a VHS-C adapter, you will completely and irreparably damage the tape.

VHS-C stands for VHS compact, by the way.

Answer 4

dicksmith or leading edge electronics have what you want

Answer 5

I am not sure where You live but I am sure d**k smiths radio shack and shops like that have them once I need one too.If not a store may be able to help You.And give You better info than here.

Answer 6

Yes, but...

Only certain types of mini-dv work, and it's pretty darn impossible to find the gear these days. You can find it still on eBay or in specialist video equipment stores, but it'd probably be cheaper and certainly more reliable to buy a dedicated mini-dv streamer/player.

Answer 7

if your video camera has RCA ports, you can watch the videos directly from you camera by playing your dv tapes from your camera. just use the RCA cable to connect your camera and TV

check this out: http://www.seriousmagic.com/images/help/...

Answer 8

they may still sell em at walmart!

if not check ebay

Answer 9

No you can not.

The VHS adapter is for VHS-C tapes.  Even if you somehow found a way to get a miniDV tape into a VHS adapter, you still have to reprogram the VCR to understand the miniDV tape.  Video saved to miniDV is saved in a different format than video saved to VHS-C.

  You only have 3 options.

The quickest is to connect the camcorder directly to the TV via the cord with the 3 RCA plugs (yellow, white, red).  If your tv is older and does not have these RCA connections (and only a cable connection), you can connect to your camcorder to your VCR, DVD player, and sometimes your cable box and send the video in that way.  You can also go to Wal-Mart and purchase an RF adapter/modulator that will convert RCA input to cable.  The camcorder will then become the VCR for the miniDV tape.

You can also connect the camcorder to a VCR or a console DVD burner with the same cord.  You can then copy the movie to a DVD or to a VCR.  There will be no loss of quality of the movie on DVD.  There will be some loss of quality on VHS tape, but it won't be so much that it is an issue.

The third option is a bit longer but will be more user friendly in the long run.  You will need to connect the camcorder to a computer via Firewire.  You can then capture the video to your computer with Windows Movie Maker or iMovie.  The video can then be edited and saved.  Then you can use a DVD burning program such as iDVD to burn your movie to a DVD-R.  The DVD-R can then be used to view the movie at any time.  If you need to make changes in the future, you can adjust the edits and then re-export a new movie.

Answer 10

Your mother's camcorder must have been VHS-C - it's the only format where you can do that.  These days your best bet is probably to put your video on DVD.

You'll need to capture the video via firewire - if your PC hasn't already got one you'll need to install a firewire card. They're cheap, easy to install and readily available. You'll also need a firewire cable.

Once everything's connected you can capture and edit the video with Windows Movie Maker (it should already be on your PC), save it as DV-AVI (it's under Save on My Computer, Best quality show more choices, Other settings) and then write it to DVD using DVD Flick.

Answer 11

Bet you tandy or betta electrical or strathfield or dicksmiths would have them in at least one branch somewhere. Also, is it reallly worth the effort? Does you camera have a remote control? I would just hook the camera up  to the teev myself, bit of a hastle sometimes but if you keep your camera nearby most of the time it shouldn't be too much of a grind.