A few years ago, I bought a Sony TRV460E because I was told by the
Sony store chain (not actually owned or run by Sony) that it was one
of only 3/4 digital cameras which would also play analog tapes and,
more important convert them to digital info to input them in as
computer video-editing program. The other was the TRV480En and I can't
remember the other two. My TRV460E has been playing up and I was
looking for a replacement. Then, reading through various newsgroups, I
discovered that quite a number of Sony digital camcorders had a
"signal convert function" which apparently does what I want - play
analog Hi8 tapes and convert them on the fly. So what is right? Can
anyone give me the definitive gen?