>>What do you do with those 8mm and Super 8mm films of the family? How about the 8mm video tapes? What about your digital videos on tape? How about your digital videos on mini CD? What happens when you have nothing to use to view memories that mean a great deal to you? Your memories mean nothing to consumer electronics.
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>They mean a lot - let's see, the guys wanted to charge me about $70 a few years ago to convert about 20 minutes of 8mm video in PAL format to a DVD.
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>Don't you love formats? The more, the merrier.

Amen. Audio has the same issues. 78, 45, 33, mono track, 2 track, 4 track, 8 track, CD, etc. I love it!