Beware ...

[Osi Osgood]

It appears that someone is selling some of those short lived "8mm" cassettes from that short lived format, on ebay, as Super 8. Such films as Milo and Otis, Elmo in Grouchland (1999), ECT. Now, if Elmo made it onto super 8, I stand corrected

[Chip Gelmini]

Osi I think you're very right about this today for the first time ever I've seen the movie Koyannisqatsi listed as full length on super eight starring Ed Asner, which is complete baloney. I've seen that movie many times and ("starring"!) Ed Asner has nothing to do with it. He was the actor on Mary Tyler Moore TV show as well as Lou Grant from years ago not to mention the starting price was only $4.63.

for those who have not seen the movie which is a masterpiece by the way, Francis Ford Coppola did in fact produce it so that is absolutely correct. If you're able to find a 35 mm print that would be the way to see it. Otherwise head for Blu-ray because I don't think this one will ever be out on Super eight

As much as I would like to have that movie in particular on super eight full length, I know better than to bid on it now....

I have just now gone back to Ebay to see if I could find the listing and it appears it's been taken down, but I know I saw it there this morning because it had one bid on it..... Either someone complained or the rip off artist came to his senses

Thank you for making us aware of this

[Steve Klare]

Are these the 8mm video cassettes ("Hi-8"?) that were also used for Digital-8 later?

When our son was a little kid, we bought a Sony Digital-8 camcorder (I raised a formal protest, but...). I continued to film with real Super-8, it's just that when my wife had the camcorder too, we had to take turns because otherwise my camera sounds appeared on her sound tracks!

Where it got interesting is later on we got a video projector and I could actually put the output of the camcorder on-screen alongside S8 and 16mm. It was nice to have sound, but the picture quality was not even close to what I was getting with my "obsolete" Super-8 camera.

I bet most people at the time would never have guessed that!

I'm sure that at the time a standard TV screen was maybe 30 inches it looked fine, but when you get up around 100 inches diagonal it really starts to suffer.

[Chip Gelmini]

I tested some pre-made VHS tapes projected about 17 feet with my Panasonic AX200-U machine and I have to say at standard play mode it didn't look all that bad. Or at least better than I expected. But alas: I haven't done it again since and probably never will! LOL

[Steve Klare]

We went to a local Sons of the Desert meeting one time and saw Way Out West projected bigger than I do at home off VHS.

-suffice it to say it was not a pretty picture!

[Ed Gordon]

Are these the 8mm video cassettes ("Hi-8"?) that were also used for Digital-8 later?
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That would explain the confusion. The Hi-8 tapes will hold a 300 minute movie. The Digital 8 only held 60 minutes.

[Osi Osgood]

I wrote the person this morning, asking as to whether it was reel to reel super 8, or 8mm video cassettes, he might have realized his error. By the way, why was it called digital 8mm? Is the video tape the width of Super 8?

[Ed Gordon]

... why was it called digital 8mm? Is the video tape the width of Super 8?

The marketing boys who decided to call video tapes "8mm" really created a mess.

Digital 8 used the same tapes as the analog video recorders. The higher quality image* required more tape, so only held 60 minutes.

* The image was higher quality than VHS, et cetera, but never as good as Super 8 film.