Camcorder Both VHS-C and 8mm video represented a trade-off for the consumer. Although the Video8 and Hi8 
camcorders produced quality equal to VHS-C and Super VHS-C camcorders (250/420 lines horizontal), the standard 8mm cassette had the advantage with up to two hours length (four hours in slow mode). On the down side, since the 8mm format was incompatible with VHS, 8mm recordings could not be played in VHS VCRs. Equally important entry-level VHS-C camcorders were priced less than 8 mm units, and thus neither "won" the war. It became a stalemate. (Side note - In 1986 companies like Panasonic began releasing full-sized VHS/S-VHS camcorders, which offered upto 3 or 9 hours record time, and thus found a niche with videophiles, industrial videographers, and college tv studios.)In the mid-1990s, the camcorder reached the digital era with the introduction of 
DV and miniDV. Its cassette media was even smaller than 8 mm media, allowing another size reduction of the tape transport assembly. The digital nature of miniDV also improved audio and video quality over the best of the analog consumer camcorders (SVHS-C, Hi8), although some users still prefer the analog nature of Hi8 and Super VHS-C, since neither of these produce the "background blur" or "mosquito noise" of Digital compression. Variations on the DV camcorder include the Digital8 camcorder and the MPEG2-based DVD camcorder, and Hard drive or Hard Disk camcorder, SD camcorder HDD camcorder MINIDIVI camcorder, and high definition HD camcorder.
camcorders produced quality equal to VHS-C and Super VHS-C camcorders (250/420 lines horizontal), the standard 8mm cassette had the advantage with up to two hours length (four hours in slow mode). On the down side, since the 8mm format was incompatible with VHS, 8mm recordings could not be played in VHS VCRs. Equally important entry-level VHS-C camcorders were priced less than 8 mm units, and thus neither "won" the war. It became a stalemate. (Side note - In 1986 companies like Panasonic began releasing full-sized VHS/S-VHS camcorders, which offered upto 3 or 9 hours record time, and thus found a niche with videophiles, industrial videographers, and college tv studios.)In the mid-1990s, the camcorder reached the digital era with the introduction of 
DV and miniDV. Its cassette media was even smaller than 8 mm media, allowing another size reduction of the tape transport assembly. The digital nature of miniDV also improved audio and video quality over the best of the analog consumer camcorders (SVHS-C, Hi8), although some users still prefer the analog nature of Hi8 and Super VHS-C, since neither of these produce the "background blur" or "mosquito noise" of Digital compression. Variations on the DV camcorder include the Digital8 camcorder and the MPEG2-based DVD camcorder, and Hard drive or Hard Disk camcorder, SD camcorder HDD camcorder MINIDIVI camcorder, and high definition HD camcorder.
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