On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 14:01:57 +0000, Theo wrote:

jon wrote:

I have an XL1 video camera I purchased for a company project in 2000
and it was never used, in fact it is still in pristine condition,
having only a couple of hours use since new. It is not worth very much
now, but it is a super SD camera that uses MiniDVD tapes. I am thinking
about converting it to record on solid state media. This would require
removing the tape drive and replacing it with a mini recorder.

How do you propose to do that? Is there S-Video or something inside
that can be tapped off?

At the moment I am just thinking about the practicality of the
modification. The other anomaly is the useful digital output from the
'Firewire IEEE 1394' socket, there are very few adapters or connecting
devices around now for this obsolete format, although it was a premium
digital connection solution in it's day.

Firewire doesn't play nicely over USB, but there are PCIe cards and
Thunderbolt adapters (well, the Apple one, although it needs another
adapter to Thunderbolt 3 for most modern laptops - somewhat pricey).
Keep the existing tape and use Firewire to offload video?

Theo

I can't use PCI cards, my two NUC computers have thundebolt three
connections and none of my laptops have firewire.....I have not seen a
direct 1394 to Thunderbolt three adapter.