I have all knids of old movies, tapes and hi8 videos, plus a boatload of music that I could transfer to digital files on an external hard drive I bought for the wizz-bang laptop my wife has. We can burn DVD's (I think) and CD's on her combo drive. The problem is the reviews on these products is less than horrible, especially the Dazzle, which would have been my favorite from the descriptions. The laptop is pretty high end, so presumably it has the right video card in it as we purchased Windows Media as the OS.
Some websites have promoted the idea of buying a DV camera that plays and converts analog hi8 videos. Is there such a thing? Currently, we have a DVD Sony camera, so that's out and the Sony hi8 camera used to shoot all these tapes is presumably dead unless I can figure out how to clean the head. (So far alcohol and Q-tips on all the heads is not doing anything. The playback is nothing but wavey lines)
What to buy? How to use?
Thanks guys, this is my no. 1 source for tech support.
