Determining late 90s Hi8 tape format?
 

Hello,

I need help figuring out how to play these Hi8 tapes from high school. I went to high school in Europe in the late 90s, but it was an American school. I borrowed a camcorder to record our band doing a couple performances. I don't know what format they're in. I put them in a hi8 ntsc camcorder for playback and got fuzz. I put them in a hi8 pal camcorder for playback and it played back pretty distorted and at like a 2x speed.

Any ideas on what I need to do to play these back?

Thanks

Hmmm... take a photo of the tape, and attach it here. All sides of it. Let's start there.

Ok so I just looked at the tape more and see that it says "PAL 8" in one spot. Are there different speeds if PAL tapes? (I didn't want to bombard this with 6 pics of all sides of the tape, but will if you think it'll help)

SP and LP.
Send in one of the tape. We have a latter-gen deck that should play these. Contact Us.
It'll be cheaper to let us handle it, rather that try to get your own PAL player (that may or may not work).

Ah so it's probably shot in LP and I'm playing it back in SP?

Perhaps.
It may also be an issue with the PAL camera not being in good working order.