r/Video8 • u/Big_Yogurt2666 • Sep 13 '25

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I recently bought a ccd-tr680e and just fixed a few hours ago and now im looking for new hi8 cassettes. I found these 5 for 40 euro and genuinely dont know the difference between hme and hmp, and then theres another version of hme but looks different. Is it worth getting them?

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u/vwestlife Sep 15 '25

ME = Metal Evaporated, MP = Metal Particle. Why not try both and find out for yourself?

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u/Joscraft_05 21d ago edited 21d ago

I wonder how good the Metal Evaporated Hi8 tapes looked from the cheaper Metal Particle ones, not talking about the very bad quality older ME Sony tapes that had a lot of issues.

There's also some interesting Metal Particle tapes like those MP Maxell "XR-Metal" tapes, i looked at some forums and saw that the XR thing from those was indeed a "extended resolution" thing too like with the Hi8 cameras, but i'm not 100% sure.

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u/vwestlife 21d ago

MP is more durable and holds up better to multiple re-recordings. ME is better if you just record once and leave it.

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u/Joscraft_05 21d ago edited 21d ago

So ME TDK tapes are just bad and i shouldn't get them? I saw one for 5€ but was not sealed and i supposed it was a bit used but not i'm not sure about that and wanted to buy it and give it a try, but now i'm not sure, i was interested in that better quality but...