Talk:VHS-C

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This page not only doesn't cite its references, but seems to be full of factual inaccuracies as well. 1982 is rather optimistically early for an intro date for VHS-C. 1990 or 1989 would be more like it.

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This page also exhibits atrocious grammar. I will come back and fix it if nobody else does.

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[edit] Cost of VHS-C and 8mm vs. MiniDV

Regarding cost comparisons [1]: the cheapest most people are ever going to find a DV tape is about US$3 a piece retail (you can get them cheaper, but not in stores, and $5/piece in quantity is more typical). Some looking around on various electronics retail sites (Crutchfield, J&R, Tapeworld.com, and Target.com for a retail comparison) indicates that VHS-C and 8mm start around $2/tape singly and Hi8 about a dollar or so per more; Mini-DV at its absolute cheapest seems to fall in the middle somewhere. I guess the issue is more complicated than I made out, but MiniDV is definitely more expensive at retail. (And that's just back-of-the-envelope figuring -- truth be told it gets much more complicated when you factor in run times and media durability.) I can say that the cheapest I've ever found MiniDV at retail (as opposed to mail order/Internet) was about $25 for 8 tapes (60 minutes, no chip), and that was at a warehouse store; a six-pack at a major electronics store (Best Buy) can be ten to twelve dollars more than that. Haikupoet 18:02, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Problem is that you yourself admit it's not too clear cut, and you're (partly) relying on your own experience to cover a fairly broad generalisation. I believe what you say, but I'm kind of uncomfortable with the article making such claims based on that (and no reference)... :-/ Fourohfour 18:47, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
A fair point. Honestly, I think overall the cheapest is Video8, but you wouldn't want to do anything serious in Video8 simply because no one makes new Video8 cameras anymore... At any rate, I got the idea to do a document comparing different camcorder formats, but it probably won't be put up here -- not really encyclopedic. Haikupoet 00:51, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
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