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Mini DV is an obsolete format now. There's a small market for working cameras as people want to access their home movies, but I suspect the market for used tapes for making new recordings is minimal. I've kept all of my DV tapes as backup to the HDD file copies but while the fragile tapes last well unplayed, they can be easily and permanently damaged by playback in a faulty device. Increasingly the problem is finding a fully working DV camera for playback including finding a tech able to service the complex little cameras.