How to I transfer video on a mini DV to my computer without my camcorder?
My camcorder just died and my new one is an HD, hard drive based camcorder so I am left with all my old tapes and no way to play them. I want to transition all the video to my hard drive but don't want to buy a new camera. I am looking for a service that will do all my tapes or a simple device to interface with my PC. Help please!!

cheaper to just buy another used camera, do your thing, then sell it off
http://www.ebay.com
StashSpace offers a video transfer services. Costs $7 a tape for the transfer and they can put it online for you to edit, onto a portable hard drive, or direct to DVD.
walmart has the video transfer service.good luck.