A friend of mine has a Hi8 and wants to convert his dragstrip videos to computer files (AVI, MPEG, heck even RealVideo would work). The current computer has USB2.0 at best, no firewire connections ...

I have some old hi8 tapes that I am trying to get into my computer in digital format and I'm having a heck of a time getting it done. I tried to get a Sony Digital8 handycam and use the firewire ...