Posted by Richard Crowley on 02/03/06 19:36

<rynato@gmail.com> wrote ...
> ok i called our local broadcast video rental house and they
> confirmed what you wrote... but they also said an even better route
> would be to connect the Digital 8 deck (with the Hi8 tape playing back
> in it) to a DVD burner....

The problem with that is that you will end up with MPEG2 compressed
video which is noticably inferior to DV.

OTOH, connecting a D8 VCR/camcorder directly to a DV
VCR/camcorder will provide optimal digital capture/transmission
and storage.

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