Is there a difference between a Hi8 tape and a Digital8 tape??

[UOcUK Poopscoop]

Just got a secondhand Sony camcorder that takes Digital 8 tapes but will a normal Hi8 tape work just as well?

Confused!

 

[AdWright]

Looks as though they are different

The 8mm video format refers informally to three related videocassette formats for the NTSC and PAL/SECAM television systems. These are the original Video8 format and its improved successor Hi8 (both analog), as well as a more recent digital format known as Digital8.

but you can use the same tapes

Introduced in the late 1990s, Digital8 is a digital-video (miniDV) codec using Hi8 media. In engineering terms, Digital8 and miniDV are indistinguishable at the logical-format level. Digital8 uses the same cassette-media as Video8, but otherwise bears no resemblance to the Video8 analog-video system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi8