VCR capture/Sony MiniDv jack problem

[dADDo]

I've just purchased a Sony Handycam HC48E miniDV as I plan to do a lot of small run filming/editing for my web site.

I also have a humungous number of old VHStapes I'm transfering to harddisc/DVD to preserve for the future (my use)

Unfortunately, I gave away my previous Sony DV camera had any number of jacks inbuilt so you could use it as a through capture device (brilliantly) - VCR/Camera/computer - but the latest Sony cameras only have an iLink jack capacity which old analogue VCR's dont have.

I've searched Australia but cannot find a converter/cable that will accept the "semi-circular"plug on the multi-pin A/V cable and connect to the iLink jack on the docking bay. Is there such a thing out there in the big wide world?

I'm assuming here that the camera will through=-put the image without having to copy to tape and then transfer.

Sony just don't want to know.

[Richard_G]

You should have kept the old one. The HC48E does not have an analogue input. Not only will it not thoughput analogue to digital, it will not take an analogue input and record it to tape. Your output from VCR is analogue video, the i-Link port (Firewire) is digital so no adapter cable is available. Even if one was it would be of no use as the two signals are incompatible.

[dADDo]

Richard_G ...thanks.
Thought that was the case but was clutching at straws!
Luckily can borrow the old one back, so that's what I will do as some of the old B&W movies are irreplaceable.