5.25-inch IDE - miniDV Tape Drive/player

tadpole wrote on 10/16/2003, 4:58 PM

MiniDV tape player that fits into 5.25 drive bay - how sweet!
Where is this? I believe i heard somewhere sometime that "they" did
manufacture such a device... ?

Build it and we will come!!
(right now i use a cheap (well $500 aint really cheap) to play tapes.. then theres all this fuss with hooking cables, power supply etc.. Plus.. why do i need a CCD, lens, LCD view screen.. etc? Thinking they dumped all that, they could put this together for a really reasonable price and sell an AS*load of them....

Anyone know if this already exists?
Come on Sony - we know you could put something like this together in no-time! :)

Comments

johnmeyer wrote on 10/16/2003, 5:20 PM
MiniDV tape decks have been around for a long time, but they are very expensive, probably because the volume has been so low. Consumer electronic stuff never gets cheap until the units sold reaches the multiple million mark. This is one of the reasons why laserdisc players stayed so expensive.

You can see many of these products here:

DV VCRs
tadpole wrote on 10/16/2003, 5:30 PM
well ya! looked at the prices on some of those badboys and see why they will never sell millions.... TOO damn expensive!

Sony makes a 5.25 miniDV vcr (front side RCA/S video out) and sells for around $200... they will sell millions and make millions.. so say i :)

Lets get on that now sony... chop chop

hehehe
mdbeaufort wrote on 10/16/2003, 5:41 PM
There was a firewire mini DV drive that fitted into a drive bay available from Fast but it was only bundled with their video capture cards as far as I know. On looking at the back of mine it was actually made by Sony! It's not that great a machine though and I wish I hadn't bought it.
wcoxe1 wrote on 10/16/2003, 7:05 PM
The only internal (to a compter case) DV drives I ever saw had a street price of about $700.00US. They were Sony labeled. I just use a Camcorder, and get multiple use out of it. I leave cables installed on the computer and just plug in the camie when needed. Simple and much more practical. The drive at $200.00 would sell very well, but it would probably be junk at that price.