#Mini dv tape players Pc

I'm going to give this a try, unless anyone has any other suggestions / advice? Alternatively, he believes he can 'fix' my old deck for ВЈ110. I've phoned a camcorder repair specialist, who has offered to try to transfer the tapes while tweaking a deck for best playback, for ВЈ15 per tape.

#Mini dv tape players Pc

Yet I still have the AVI of that tape copied onto my PC using the old camcorder which is just fine. I considered the HV20 could be picky or faulty, but a friend playing one of my recent 'bad' tapes sees exactly the same problem. Has anyone experienced anything like this? I considered the old camcorder's heads could be out of alignment, but I have plenty of tapes recorded on there which play fine, so the 'problem' can't have been permanent. However, on the new camcorder, the tapes I had with a few problems are now disasters, but also very recent tapes with no previous problems are also disasters. Using a head cleaner once, and later giving up on LP in favour of SP, seemed to solve these for good on future recordings. The old camcorder had occasional problems on some of the recordings originally, which were always there when played back. (or, most recently, on recordings made after transferring some old Panasonic tapes onto PC). No one told me 9 years ago! I mainly used Sony Premium or Sony Colour Collection - and I'm wondering if problems appear on the recordings after using a Panasonic instead In the reading I did before buying the HV20 I discovered this was a complete no-no. I'm wondering if it had something to do with using different brands of tape occasionally.

SP or LP, Sony Panasonic or Matsui(!) tape, widescreen or 4x3, 1998 or 2007 - I have good and bad examples from each. (even those with lots of panning and movement where it would be easy to spot). However, some tapes play without any visible problems Problems range from slight tiny few pixel drop outs, to the entire right 1/4 of the screen constantly dropping out and being replaced by the previous frame - with the audio dropping out almost constantly too.

The problem is that _some_ of my old DV tapes won't play properly on the Canon.