Chuck Hards wrote:
Patrick, as I was watching my old 8mm videos tonight, my eye kept wandering over the other video equipment under the TV...and something, a growing intuition, kept fermenting in the back of my mind- AHA! I have a DVD recorder that I have only ever used for playback! Is it just that simple- burn a DVD copy while the 8mm camcorder plays it back into the DVD deck?
Let me know if you pull it off. I've got a DVR and recently wondered if I could shoot my occultation and satellite transits with it. But I went through the manual and could not find any way to record anything except the signal that comes in from the receiver dish. The dish connects via a standard F connector so it would be easy to rig an RCA-to-F cable to feed the DVR a video signal but I'm afraid I might fry something. So you try it with your DVDR and let me know how it goes... :) Patrick