I saw an ad for a Sony DCR-P350.which looked pretty good.but then can't seem to find anywhere to actually buy one!ĭo camcorders using mini-DV tapes as the recording medium just simply not exist anymore? Whenever I type in 'mini-dv tape camcorder' into a search engine I get a bunch of old discontinued models. I suddenly find that, not only do I not have a camcorder to make new films, but I also have no way of viewing or uploading or burning onto a disc the OLD min-dv tapes! Trying to buy a new camcorder is proving to be difficult because it seems like most camcorders nowadays just record onto some kind of internal memory, or memory stick, or straight onto a dvd disc. So.even though I've burned quite a few of the movies onto DVDs, using Final Cut Express as the movie editing software, I still have lots of mini-DVD tapes which have never been uploaded onto a computer for editing & have never been burned onto a disc. I then bought a used one from eBay, and carried on making great movies for another 2 years, but then the same thing happened again. I had to prise open the compartment to get the tape out. Turning it on and off would occasionally work, but eventually it just died. My first camcorder lasted a few years, and then one day the mechanism which opens the cassette compartment to allow you to put in or take out a mini-DV cassette failed on me. The problem I've always had with it is that the mini-DV open/eject mechanism isn't quite as durable as it should be. I have used a Sony Handycam for years.mostly the old DCR-PC1000E.

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