Transferring old 8mm videotapes
 

Non tech savvy here. Have a box of old mini dv video tapes that I want to transfer to something current and more readily playable. (In the older days I would have said transfer to DVD but I know that is outdated as well). A lot of the tapes are partially full - i.e. some only have 15 minutes used of the hour long capacity. Any suggestions on where to get them converted and saved? Would like to gift a copy of old home movies to the kids. Thanks in advance.

legacybox.com will do it, but it is not cheap.

Another option is to buy a conversion device from Amazon and do it yourself. You should digitize it and copy the content to a flash drive.

Depending on how many tapes (etc) that you have, buying the equipment and doing it yourself may be much less expensive. I do have a digital movie camera that takes the 8 mm(?) magnetic tape cartridges and I have lent it out for others to use. If you have actual 8 mm FILM, I also have a projector and a "copy" unit let I have never used. This would probably need some experimentation but should also work.

Walmart did all my old 8mm movies and put them on a USB flash drive.

This is the equipment our library allows people to use, and I have used it successfully on a few tapes -- I'm thinking of just buying one:

Amazon.com