The Sony DCR-TRV480 and DCR-TRV380 Digital8 Manual can be downloaded at: http://www.docs.sony.com/release/DCRTRV480.PDF

The Sony DCR-TRV460 and DCR-TRV361 Digital8 Manual can be downloaded at: http://www.docs.sony.com/release/DCRTRV460.PDF

The Sony DCR-TRV280 Digital8 Manual which also covers the Hi8 CCD-TRV138 and CCD-TRV338 can be downloaded at:
http://www.docs.sony.com/release/DCRTRV280.PDF

The Sony DCR-TRV260 and DCR-TRV265 Digital8 Manual which also covers the Hi8 CCD-TRV128, CCD-TRV228 CCD-TRV328 and CCD-TRV428 can be downloaded at:
http://www.docs.sony.com/release/DCRTRV260.PDF

The Sony DCR-TRV130 Digital8 Manual can be downloaded at: http://www.docs.sony.com/release/DCRTRV130.PDF

The Sony DCR-TRV240, DCR-TRV340, DCR-TRV740 and DCR-TRV840 Digital8 Manual can be downloaded at: http://www.docs.sony.com/release/DCRTRV840.PDF

Rich

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If anyone is interested in the Service Manuals that are included with the user manual for many Sony Cameras.

There is a website: http://www.user-service-manuals.com
The website contains hundreds and hundreds of service manuals for all types of electronic equipment. His collection of Sony manuals is extensive.

It is purely a charitable website. The man has over ten years experience in electronics repairs. However he lives in an Eastern European country with a ditctatorial regime.

To acquire a manual, he asks only that you make a small donation of $15.00 to The Association for Human Rights Defense International.
There is a link that takes you directly to the charitable site, and after you've made your donation you may copy and paste the link to the manual you wish to have, email it to him and he sends you a download link for a PDF file within a few days. I was able to get a service manual for the TRV730, TRV830. It is very clear and enlarges supurbly.
The only difference is that it says TRV725E, but it is exactly the same, except that it is a European version. The manuals are in English.

All that he asks is to make a small donation to The Association for Human Rights Defense International (HRD), or work as a volunteer in this organization.

"HRD is international Charitable organization for defense of human and the civil rights in the world, especially in the countries released from communist and dictatorial regimes, first of all, in the countries of East Europe, ex-USSR (former Soviet Union), Russia, Ukraine and Belarus."

I was hesitant at first, but he came through with a maual worth it's weight in gold. All the expoded views of the camera are in the manual, and the part numbers and names. The manual is 279 pages so it is very comprehensive for those that are mechanically inclined.

Hope this was a helpful suggestion.

jmblaze

I found that if you go here you can put in the Sony camcorder model number and get the user manual.

Get a list of most Sony video camera and camcorder instruction manuals .

The following link has a fairly complete set of links to Operating Instruction Manuals for 26 Sony NTSC and PAL Hi8 Camcorders that have the RC Timecode and Data Code Feature. This includes links to several old manuals such as the CCD-TR101 that Sony's search engine has somehow lost, but still are on Sony's servers.

Go to http://www.octochron.com/faqSonyHi8...odeDataCode.htm

This prosumer feature was present in the high end Hi8 camcorders put out by Sony in the 1990's and enabled these camcorders to display the dates and times on the TV screen when the Data Code or the DATE(+) or TIME(NEXT) button was pressed.

However, Sony never provided a means of transferring the dates and times on Hi8 tapes to other media. Hi8DateTime by Octochron fills that gap for Hi8 tapes with RC Timecode by" producing a list of scenes, their start and end timecodes (HH:MM:SS), their recording date, and the start and end time of day in under 15 minutes elapsed time ...". It also creates subtitles with recording date and times that you can optionally turn on and off when viewed with Windows Media Player.

Is it safe to assume that the models that are covered by the same manual are then compatible with each other and recordings on one can be read by the others?

For example I have the DCR-TRV250 and the manual also covers the 150, 350 and 351 models as well as the CCD-TRV118, 318 and 418 models.

I need to replace my 250 and want to still use my tapes, especially for some stuff that I did not retrieve off the tapes yet.