All the 8’s and the quality is great!

I always thought Video 8 was older than VHS. A customer pointed out how his video8 conversion looked better than the VHS-C’s so I looked into it. Feels like a Mandela effect but there is more to it…

VHS-C is actually more recent than Video 8. VHS-C (Compact VHS) was introduced in the early 1980s as a compact version of the VHS format, designed for use in camcorders. So in terms of camcorders VHS-c did come later.  Video 8 was developed in 1984 by Kodak and popularized by Sony as a rival to VHS-C offering a smaller and more portable alternative and boasting 240 horizontal lines of resolution. Hi8, introduced later, competed with the S-VHS format and recorded at 400 lines of resolution.  Hi8 camcorders can play Video 8 tapes, but the playback will be at Video 8 resolution.