On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 08:12:49 GMT, nikolai_serov@my-dejanews.com wrote:

>Hi all! Some amateur digital camcorders have analog S-Video input. May be
>someone made copies from Hi8 (S-VHS) to digital format? What about picture
>quality in this case? Is it possible to use it for saving picture quality of
>the original camcorder tapes without professional equipment (I know, that
>professionals do it with their video archives). Thank you in advance,
>Nikolai.

This works well (though it takes two fairly expensive
1-hour DV tapes to copy one 2-hour Hi-8...), and essentially
preserves the original quality of the Hi-8 tape.