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I bought a DVD/HD recorder, which is very cool. I retrieved my old Hi-8 camcorder and all the tapes, and started recording them to the hard disk. I’m a bit upset by the poor quality of some of it, though I’m not sure I’m surprised. It is 12 years old and has just been sitting in a cupboard all that time suffering the temperature changes and time deterioration. Perhaps the heads on the camera could be cleaned, that might help.

Anyway, next problem is the quality setting on the DVD recorder. High quality allows one hour of film to go to a DVD. Normal quality allows 2 hours. Wonder if the source material merits the high setting. It will double the number of disks I need. Annoyingly most of my early tapes are 90 minutes long, so I think normal setting will be best so that I can stick to one DVD-R per tape, which will make the whole procedure more simple.

Made one DVD-R as a test and it looks great actually.