I have a ton of digital and hi8 tapes in a box. Is there a machine that I can put these into and copy them to a hard drive?

[BATM4N]

I have Old hi8 and digital 8 tapes but no camcorder to copy the contents. Is there a machine out there that would play/record the video to a hard drive(preferably Mac)??

 

[USAFRet]

Some years ago I had to do exactly this.
A $50 Sony camcorder from eBay, and a USB capture device di the trick.

 

[Ubrales]

Do as USAFRet says - it will work. I did it the same way. Slow process. Hauppauge capture devices are good.

 

[BATM4N]

Excuse my ignorance but what does "hauppauge capture" mean?

 

[kenrivers]

Excuse my ignorance but what does "hauppauge capture" mean?

It is a device for capturing video - http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/data_hdpvr.html

 

[BATM4N]

Interesting. Didn't know that unit existed.