Old 8mm. Movies, Conversion to DVD?

My own video cameras may not be of high enough quality to do this conversion, even using their signal out as a direct input to something like the Canopus ADVD-100.
Are there any companies that do this conversion commercially?

Look in your local phone book under "Video" or "Video Services". I had some childhood 8mm & Super 8 reels transferred to VHS a couple years ago, and I'm sure nowadays they can go straight to DVD.
Wasn't that expensive really.
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