OT: Empty Mini-DV cases? Does anyone sell them?

slacy wrote on 5/5/2005, 3:03 PM

Hi all,

I've looked high and low, but can't find any place to buy them. I have about 7 or 8 tapes that somehow became separated from their cases. Who thought it would be so hard to find a simple item like this?!?

Scott

Comments

Quryous wrote on 5/5/2005, 7:22 PM

I have been looking for them for years. No go. Wrote to Sony, Panasonic, Maxell, and Fuji asking about them. No response from any of them.

kentwolf wrote on 5/6/2005, 2:25 AM

I also looked for this as well as 8MM cases years ago.

Apparently, not a single company sells them anywhere. Looks like you have to buy a new tape to get the case.

Michael L wrote on 5/6/2005, 6:51 AM

This is not quite what you are looking for. It holds 9 tapes rather than just one.

I am thinking this might be a handy way to store the original tapes.

http://www.americanrecordablemedia.com/detail.asp?product_id=MDV-9

farss wrote on 5/6/2005, 6:59 AM

Ask a local rental company to save their old test tapes for you.

I'd offer you a few from where I work but there's the postage and a tape lasts us a few months so it'd take a while.

Bob.

Quryous wrote on 5/6/2005, 7:59 AM

I actually sell the albums you mentioned, and storage racks for Mini-DV tapes that hold 24 or 50 tapes. But they are not very good without the original case the tape came in. A real bummer that no one sells them. I would if I could find a wholesale source.