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That looks to be a micro USB port.... which is not going to work when it comes to transferring your DV video footage to your computer.
It's probably used to copy still photos to a PC - but NOT DV video.
There are Firewire to USB cables available, but you need to know that they will not work if you try to connect a Firewire camcorder output to a laptop USB input to try and transfer video footage that way.
There are only 3 ways of getting your video tape footage onto a computer....
The best way (with absolutely no quality loss) is the use Firewire. Not easy - in fact almost impossible - with modern laptops.
The 2nd way (with some loss of quality) is to use the AV output jack from the camcorder (not the connector you've shown) and to then connect to the laptop with something like an EZcap analogue capture device -- See HERE
The 3rd way is to get the tapes transferred to disc or drive professionally -- can be cost effective with small numbers of tapes?
To get the full quality though you really need to use Firewire....Firewire cards for desktop PCs are still cheap.. If you have access to an old PC (doesn't need to be very high spec) you can use a firewire card fitted to that, and then transfer your tapes to the PC hard drive.
Once you have those files (which take up around 13GB per hour of footage) you can then transfer them to your laptop for storage - via USB!
But you cannot use USB to actually 'capture' the DV tapes initially...
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