On 23 Jul 2002 20:37:55 -0700, shetfield@yahoo.com (Joey Tee) wrote:

>I'm looking to purchase a digital camcorder that will also playback
>all my old standard 8mm tapes recorded on my ancient Sanyo
>videocamera. I want to be able to output to my computer all this
>footage as well so I can edit the lot together. I don't have a video
>capture card, so I guess it has to be USB or firewire compatible. I
>purchased a Sony trv130 last night as the salesman assured me it would
>playback my 8mm tapes. Well, no go on that one, so I returned it
>promptly. A little more research was required, no doubt. I'd like to
>keep the price under 800$ Canadian, if that's possible. If anyone can
>recommend brands, models, etc, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks for
>your time.

The TRV130 should have worked, unless none of these D8s
will play 8mm (Just Hi-8? I don't know...), or the alignment
was far off on the camera you recorded the tapes on. If
you can successfully play the tapes on D8 cameras, they
will output by FireWire to a computer; if you cannot
play the tapes in the new gear, but still can in the
old, you can play it analogue into many newer digital
cameras which will digitize it on the fly and send it
on to the computer by FireWire...