Converting 8mm and Hi8 tapes...

Hi,
I've been meaning to get around to converting some old family 8mm and Hi8 tapes to my MacBook Pro for simple editing, archiving, and burning to DVD. I've read around on the process quite a bit and thought I had an answer in terms of getting my hands on a Digital8 camera that could handle analog conversion, but now I'm learning that some Digital8 models aren't compatible with iMovie and OS 10.5 ...
The basics, as I understand them, are this:
To transfer analog 8mm and Hi8 tapes, first you need something that's going to play them. Yeah, so I have a Canon Vixia HV30, but being a MiniDV camcorder, these are apples and oranges here, and that's not going to help. I don't have access to the original 8mm or Hi8 cameras, and even if I did, they wouldn't be giving me digital outputs. So what I want is a Digital8 camcorder, as they have digital outputs and are backwards compatible with 8mm and Hi8. As I've learned, however, as Digital8 started to become obsolete, the mid-range models got weaker and now half of the used Digital8 camcorders on the (used) market apparently don't do analog-digital conversion.
So the question is thus: does anyone know of a Digital 8 camcorder that will do 8mm/Hi8 analog playback/digital output, that iMovie HD on my MacBook Pro will be able to understand?
Are there any details I'm missing here? Is there different software I could use? I'm willing to spend 200 or 300 bucks, but given I'll probably already have to take a chance on the purchase via eBay or Craiglist, it would be nice not to have to spend more.

I am probably th LEAST knowledgeable person on this forum, but ...... I own a wonderful Sony DCR TRV 103. It is dying. It worked fine with imovie and my imac. I actually called and sony will still repair it for about $250. which I may still do, even though I bought a canon HV30. You can sometimes get the Sony that I have on ebay. Sony also sells a high8 player, but that is around $500. About 10 years ago, I wanted to transfer my parents 8mm tapes and what I ended up doing was to sit down with my mom (89 years old) in the dark basement, play the old tapes with the projected and I set up my camcorder next to mom so I could get her recollections on the tape but I also got the click, click, click of the projector.
I know most wouldn't want the sound of the projector, but it's ok... I am so thrilled to have mom's voice explaining who is who in the video. However, I do understand I could use soundsoap to delete that sound.... I don't know.
So,that is my input. That Sony DCR TRV 103 worked great with my imac.

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