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HI8 Videotape Transfer to DVD:

 

 

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The Hi8 videotape introduced after  the Video8 and was quite popular prior to the release of vhs and the video camera compact vhs-c.

There are still thousands of working HI8 and HI8 Handycams out there and the proof of it's ease of use popularity can be found in any supermarket videotape section where you can still find HI8 tapes for sale alongside more modern Mini DV videotape cassettes.

JVC trumped Sony with a small sized VHS-C tape that could be played in a VHS VCR via an adapter to playback the tapes.

But of course good old Sony hit back with the HI8 video camera tape which many people argue is better than VHS, all this is fine  but of course Mini DV took over

and our old HI8 camera is no longer repairable so it is certainly time to look into transfer to DVD.

We offer these service levels for HI8 to DVD conversions.

Standard Video Transfer HI8 to DVD.

This service is for customers who wish to preserve their videotapes in a digital format of DVD.

Basic service includes high quality transfer at high bit rate to DVD featuring chapter points bur without a menu - just insert disk and hit play on your remote.

Feature List HI8 to DVD Transfer Standard Basic DVD Transfer:

 

Hi8 & Video8 are now around 20 years or more old and you should consider a transfer to convert your HI8 & Video8 videotapes to DVD before it is too late.

Videotapes DO NOT last and have a safe shelf life of 10 years in ideal storage conditions.

Preserve your family memories with Australia's largest transfer facility and the most trusted brand name there is.

You can safely post your tapes to us at Avid Tech by Express Post - Registered Post or if you prefer you are most welcome to hand deliver and meet the team in person.

Avid Tech is about families and keeping our memories safe for future generations to come.

Our prices are the lowest in Australia for professional HI8 / Video8 transfers / conversions.

Others charge $60 and more for basic transfers. Beware of cheap transfers as what you will get may leave you disappointed.

People trust Avid Tech with their irreplaceable memories.

Standard Basic HI8 DVD Transfer

$40.00 AUD per tape

Editied / Custom HI8 DVD Conversions

$50.00 AUD per tape

High quality capture at high bit rate

 

 

The 8 mm video format relates to three videocassette formats for the PAL/SECAM television systems in Australia & Europe.

These are the original Video8 analog format and its improved replacement Hi8 both analog and digital, as a rather more recent digital format known as Digital8.

The user-base consisted mainly of amateur camcorder users, use in the professional field was rare.

The format was created in around 1984 by Eastman Kodak

Kodak had designed a camcorder, but Kodak dropped it very early before it was an established and popular

home movie maker tool that replaces super 8 film as the mainstream home media.

1985 saw Sony Japan blitzed the market with the Handycam, one of the first Video8 cameras with commercial success.

Much smaller and lighter than the house brick sized and weighted VHS and Betamax video cameras, Video8 became very popular in the consumer camcorder market which is hardly surprising.

HI8 Technical Bits & Bobs

The three formats Video8, Hi8 and Digital8 are pretty much similar, having both the same tape-width and near-identical cassette-shells measuring approximately 95 x 62.5 x 15 millimeters.

This gave a modicum of backward-compatibility in some cases. One difference between them is in the quality of the tape the main differences lay in the encoding of the video when it is recording onto the tape.

Video8 was the earliest of the three formats, and is entirely analog. The 8 mm tape width was chosen as smaller successor to the 12mm Betamax format, using similar technology including U-shaped tape loading, but in a smaller form factor and in response to the small form factor VHS-C compact cam corders JVC started this.

It was followed by a version with improved resolution, Hi8. Although this was still analog, some professional Hi8 equipment could store additional digital-stereo PC audio on a reserved track for this purpose..