Will a Sony Digital 8 work with my iBook G4?

Good Evening,
Given my 10 years of service with my company, I have been given the opportunity to receive a Sony DCRTRV-280 digital 8 camcorder.
Will this work with my iBook G4?
Having read some past posts, it seems like it will work, but not without jumping through a couple of hoops.
Anyone have experience with this unit being used on a mac?
Thanks,
Chris
1.42 GHz PowerPC G4 512MB   Mac OS X (10.4.7)  

I use a Sony Digital-8 TRV 330E, and it works perfectly with my G3 and G4 PowerBooks, Mac mini, etc.
In the UK, and the rest of Europe, some lower-priced camcorders have a FireWire OUT connection ..so that you can feed your footage into iMovie.. but don't necessarily have a FireWire IN connection ..for feeding your edited footage back to a tape in the camcorder. You may want to check and see if the DCRTRV-280 does have FireWire IN, but it's sure to have FireWire OUT, so that you can take the footage from the camera and edit it.
But there WON'T be a FireWire cable in the box with the camera: you'll have to buy one separately ..you'll need a 4-pin-to-6-pin FireWire (..also called 'DV' or 'i.Link' or IEEE..) cable from a camcorder or electronics shop.

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