When Gerald and I got married in Jamaica, back in 1993, a lovely Irish couple videotaped the ceremony for us, and gave us the tape.
The problem is, the tape is a European format that we never had the ability to view. It’s a PAL8 8mm videocassette. Specifically, a Sony Metal MP90, which says in various places on its case that it’s “P5-90MP,” “Video8,” and “PAL8”.
I would really, really like to be able to preserve this tape (and even watch it someday…). Is there anybody within the reach of this blog who has equipment to decode the tape and transfer it to a digital video file? I would be so grateful…
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Update: A point of clarification. There are plenty of places around here (including several departments here at RIT) that could help me transfer this if it were a standard US tape format (like NTSC). But this is a European (PAL8) videotape format, which not many US video shops support.
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Update 2: Never mind. I found a place online (APM Studio in Boca Raton, FL) that will convert the PAL 8mm tape to an NTSC-format DVD for $14.95.
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Update 3: Wow! Seems our ed tech center here at RIT may be able to do it for me. Very cool. Thanks, Brock, for letting me know…I probably should have checked with them first!
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