Camcorders

Thanks, I’ll look into that idea.

Bit of a minefield really theres that many on the market and depends on your budget but if moneys tight then my 2nd option may appeal.
digital cams are very good price may be a issue and is your PC up to doing home movies and burning to dvds etc and also memory cards etc all ahve to taken in to account.
myself still use a oldish canon 8mm tape one you can buy hi8 cams cheaply now days and the tapes are also cheap to buy .
now you have saved a few hundred £S going for the 8mm route . go to asda and buy one of there DVD recorders for £68 they have them at this will let you plug your 8mm in to and copy from your cam on to A dvd disc. you can edit your movie with the inbuilt edit in the cam they are very good really . you have your movie on 8mm tape and dvd then store the 8mm tape for back up and use the dvd disc .
other bonus with the dvd recorder is as it is under your video player under your tv set up you can copy films off tv to dvd and also plug your video player in to it and copy your old vhs films to dvd . thats my suggestion .