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

[James P. Kinney III]

I have a Sony HandyCam CCD-TRV318 that uses Hi-8 tapes that I am willing
to part with. I can scramble up all the parts (and I need to transfer a
video to digital from a friends wedding) as I don't use the camera at
all any more.

On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 14:16 -0500, Thompson Freeman wrote:
> Admittedly, the only tenuous connection to Linux here is  
> that if I ever get video editing done, it will be done  
> under Linux. The underlying challenge is still too common  
> with the various computer media.
> 
> <rant tale of woe>
> 
> My video cam decided not to work a few months back when  
> apparently the critical failure circuit detected I was  
> attempting to shoot my daughter-in-law's baby shower. I  
> finally got it in to the shop for diagnosis, and the bill  
> to repair is greater than I spent on the camera six/seven  
> years ago! _NOT_ worth the money to repair, but in the mean  
> time everybody has stopped making digital format Hi-8 media  
> cameras! Now I've got a bunch of video footage which has  
> become inaccessable, at least to me.
> 
> I can get the footage saved/converted at Wolf Camera for a  
> mere $30/2hr of tape. With possibly 35 hours of tape, that  
> adds up to a fair piece of change, especially since I don't  
> know what is on some of the tape (bad habits on my part).  
> Why, oh Why are we changing to incompatible formats every  
> few years for just about every electronic device around? I  
> mean, it is the 8", 5.25" hard sectored, 5.25" soft  
> sectored, 5.25" HD, 3", 3"HD floppy dance all over again.  
> I've had 3 digital still cameras now, and not one of them  
> has reused either batteries or storage media, or been  
> really worth repairing when something goes wrong with a  
> $200 intial investment.
> </rant>
> 
> 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? Its a long shot, but I might at well ask. I'm in  
> Charlotte, but I've got kin in the Atlanta region, so I  
> probably can meet up with somebody.
> 
> Thanks for the bandwidth to get that frustration off my  
> chest. Appologies for being quite so far off topic.
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