Yes I know a camcorder would do heh. But not in this case. A friend of mine has to work away from his family and was looking to get them a camcorder. Neither of the kids nor his wife is going to then ...

Many older-model camcorders use MiniDV tapes as their medium for recording video and audio. MiniDV, or Mini Digital Video, is an analog format that, like all analog formats, is susceptible to ...

I have some 11-year-old recordings on Mini-DV, recorded with a Canon Optura Xi A camcorder. I can't figure out how to transfer them to a PC. I'd be happy with just playing the videos on my PC screen ...

It started with a call from Steve Jobs. In October 2008, I wrote about my alarm that Apple had removed the FireWire jack from its latest laptops. “FireWire is how you connect tape camcorders to the ...