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- Subject: Forwarding: HI Band 8mm Camera Recommendations sought
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- Date: Monday, December 28, 1992 3:33 pm
- To: VideoTech%csl.sri:com
- Copies: Hewitt
- From: Bob Hewitt
- Subject: HI Band 8mm Camera Recommendations sought
- Answer to: Hewitt.Wbst129%Xerox.Com
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- LandLine: 716*422*4096
- SnailMail: Hewitt @ Webster W-129, MS 37A
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- First time on this DL so forgive me if this has been hashed out recently but
- I'm in the market for a Hi Band 8mm camera and have been looking at the Sony
- CCD-TR81, and those in its price range and capability. I have a price of
- $999.00 at the Stereo Shop here in Rochester NY. There is available a lifetime
- warranty (labor free, parts $99.00 extra) which I am tempted to go for having
- just seen my old RCA VHS machine go south with an estimated repair cost nearly
- as much as the cost of a new one.
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- I have seen ads for mailorder houses for the Sony TR81 for around 750 bux. I
- am told that most of these are grey market stuff and that I should steer clear
- of them based on the old premise that "if it's too good to be true, it probably
- is".
- I can wait a while before making the purchase and am tempted to do so to see if
- the price drops when the newer model comes out (I understand that the 81 has
- been around for a year or more). Does anyone have info on other "best prices"
- or info pertaining to the newer model of this Sony machine? I hear that the
- TR101 has better performance than the 81 but you have to buy the image
- stabilization feature along with it and the price hike is somewhere around 300
- bux.
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- Any advice will be welcome from you experts out there. Thanks in advance.
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- Bob
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