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It's A Digital Disease!

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/piangero on 2025-04-21 15:28:33.

Hello folks! I hope you can help me. I've digitalized all my DV tapes. They are the smaller ones, the last type I believe. (I had a Sony Handicam around 2007, if that makes sense.)

However, my uncle passed away in 2002/2003 and he left behind a sort of DV tape that is a little bit larger in size, so I dont know how to transfer this one, as I dont have the required videocamera to playback this.

Do I have any options for digitalizing this tape? I have a VCR and a way to digitalize VHS tapes, and as mentioned, I can do the same with the latest type of DV tapes, the small ones.

But I dont know about the other size. I read somewhere long ago, that these tapes could be fitted into a VHS and played back in a special VCR, but I cant seem to understand how that would work.

I am wondering, maybe there is some sort of playback device for these, that only plays back and rewinds/forwards or something? Like, a mini VCR but with lacking functions or something? Cause I only need something to actually play the tape, so I could use the capture card to get it onto my PC.

Or is there another way around this? I just want to archive it so bad, and show my mom cause she's never seen the tape and misses her brother.

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