OT 8mm VCR?

That machine won't play your Digital D8 tape from a sony handycam. It looks like it will play regular 8 tapes which are 240 line res just like VHS. There is also High 8 akin to SuperBeta and SuperVHS has about 400 lines. I've never seen an RCA 8 VCR, just Sony's. It may be made by a differnet company and rebranded RCA. Movies were released for a short time on 8, we had a couple when I worked at an electronics store a few years ago.

[andy]

He was just using his digital 8 tape as a blank tape to record on with the RCA. You wouldn't see any picture at all when playing a digital 8 recording. Digital 8 tapes are just Hi-8 tapes which should work fine an an 8mm VCR for recording. It may, or may not be able to play Hi-8 recordings.