Help. Is anyone out there aware of a stand alone Mini DV tape player which can be used to down load digital video into my PC?

[beachy]

Originally Posted by tim m

Help. Is anyone out there aware of a stand alone Mini DV tape player which can be used to down load digital video into my PC?

take a look at these on a google search.
panasonic ag-dv2000.
sony gv-d1000.
jvc hr-dvs3.

quite pricey though start from £700 to over £1000.

[MarkE19]

For the cost of a DV VCR you would IMO be better off just getting a cheap DV camcorder to load the footage onto the PC. After all it doesn't matter about cheap, poor lens as that wont be used. The digital output should not be affected by the quality of the camcorder as transfer via firewire gives a 100% quality copy of what is on the tape.

Nark.

[beachy]

Originally Posted by MarkE19

For the cost of a DV VCR you would IMO be better off just getting a cheap DV camcorder to load the footage onto the PC. After all it doesn't matter about cheap, poor lens as that wont be used. The digital output should not be affected by the quality of the camcorder as transfer via firewire gives a 100% quality copy of what is on the tape.

Nark.

i could'ent agree more,this is a much better option and mega bucks cheaper,than paying £700 + for a mini vcr.

[senu]

Originally Posted by beachy

i could'ent agree more,this is a much better option and mega bucks cheaper,than paying £700 + for a mini vcr.

...plus you get a backup camcorder. I broke the lcd screen on a nephews camcorder and had to give him a new one as replacement. his (old ) one is now consigned to permanently transferring minidv to pc instead of simply going to waste. You could also use it as an analog to dv converter if you have analogue in on one end and dv from camcorder to computer via firewire on the other

[theslingerland]

Hi guys -

New to the forum and joined because of this thread. I'm pretty new to all this D-video stuff, worked with SVHS back in the day with the BBC and came back and look what you've all been up to

The question I has is this - I'm thinking of adding a Sony Z1 to my arsenal (1st Q - can any of you suggest any £1k alternatives s/h?) and it will be the first DV Tape camera I've owned. I've been thinking of the logistics of this and my first thought is about getting cheap camera to run it into my mac to save the Z1 - so here we are - Q2 - what's the cheapest camera I can purchase to fulfill this role?

Thanks in advance!

James Hester

[theslingerland]

PS - I know this thread is veeeerrrrrrrryyyyyyy old... sorry!

[Johnmcl7]

Because of the age of this thread the structure of the forum has changed since then and this is now the forum section for digital cameras, I'd recommend starting a new topic in the video forum section the age of this thread is going to cause some confusion.

John