Digital8 Hi8 Video to DVD Review

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Digital-8 to DVD Conversion

All about Hi8 Digital8 tape,

8mm refers to a family of three video cassettes, Video8 tape which is the original analogue video format, Hi8 Video (Hi-8) which is the successor to Video8 and is available in both analogue and digital, and the most recent Digital8 which is the digital video format. 8mm if you are interested in transferring 8mm film to DVD then why not visit www.cine-to-dvd-transfer.co.uk

The target market was the amateur videographers and budding TV documentary enthusiasts. It was very cost effective so it could be used at home. And the size of the video camcorder and the actual Hi8 tapes meant that it could go anywhere with you in a small, lightweight bag.

The 8mm format was developed and released in 1984 by Kodak, but they withdrew from the market before it took off. In 1985 Sony released the Handycam video camcorder, one of the first to be successful in the video market. Hi-8 though outsold most other format during this shortlived era of ever changing advances in video electronics.

Some Hi8 tapes were used to gather very small local news clips and if it wasn't for the drop out they were hard to distinguish from the professional format of DVCAM and Digital Betacam.

The three different formats are very similar. Here's a quick review; they all have the same tape width and are nearly identical in physical video cassette dimension. The two major differences is the quality of the video tape and the manner in which they are encoded.

Video8 was the first of the 8mm formats and it is entirely analogue. When the Hi-8 was released it was both analogue and digital. Then came the only digital format of Digital8.