[SE Digital8] Q&A-03: How to record in LP mode on to standard 8mm tape ?

Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 00:53:06 -0400
Reply-To: Digital8@egroups.com




Compare the bottom plates of a Hi-8 and a Video-8 cassette.  With the
door-edge down, you will see sets of three holes in the upper corners.  Some
have screws in them.  Others have plastic membranes in them, making them
very shallow. Some go deeper.  One is the pivot for the write-protect
slider, often red colored.  In the corner with the write-protect slider
(upper right when cassette is on its back), the center hole of the diagonal
row of three is the one that is plugged on video-8 and not on Hi-8.
Removing it is quick work with a drill bit of about the same diameter; you
can ream it by hand.  Understand that poking out this plug just makes the
cassette "look" like Hi-8, I doubt that it makes it perform like Hi-8.

Regards

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Greetings,

Haven't tried this myself, but by comparing a standard 8 to a Hi8 tape, the
only hole that I notice that is different is in the upper right hand side of
the back of the tape.

Hold the tape with the back of the case toward you and the tape-door down,
in the upper right you'll see a triangle of holes pointing to the upper
right

  o  o
   x
     o

Punch out the hole that's in the middle of all the other holes (the one that
I've x'd in the diagram)  That will leave you with only one hole that isn't
punched (the upper left one -- dunno what that ones for...)

HTH,
Darren.