Another nifty project

digg turned me on using my miniDV camcorder & ieee1394 connection to perform backups onto miniDV. According to the article 60min miniDV's can hold up 18GB compressed in LP mode, and take an hour or so to backup. I'm currently searching around for a cheap possibly broken miniDV camcorder on ebay. I looked around for a miniDV deck, but they are professional grade, and cost thousands. An old sony dcr-trv8 would do the same thing. With some tinkering, I could also utilize the LCD attached.