[ale] [OT] Video Camera Rant/Modern Media Formats Rant

[Thompson Freeman]

On 02/06/2007 03:53:29 PM, Robert Reese wrote:
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> On 2/6/2007 at 2:16 PM Thompson Freeman wrote:
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> >FWIW, and because there are a number of people with
> varied
> >interests around here, anybody around here have access to
> 
> >appropriate equipment that I might get these tapes
> >converted?
> 
> IIRC, there are VHS transports/converters that allow you
> to insert a Hi-8 tape into a VHS "shell" and play it in a
> VCR.  I could be wrong.... as you noted, it's been awhile.

It is a thought, and I'll look around for such. I'll admit  
to only remembering seeing those transports for a small  
sized vcr tape, not the Hi-8.