I have tried to be prepared as possible for my Alaska trip, but there is always the unexpected. I took some video pictures while in Valdez but when I tried to transfer them to my laptop using my Snappy software, the resultant digital pictures were blurred. To make a long story short, apparently it was the 8mm tape cassette because today I tried a different one and the blurring has not reoccured. I feel like I'm in some Alaskan outpost.