HDV Tapes

[palmierg]

Recently I baught a JVC HD100 Hdv camcorder. With it I got a box of JVC ProHD mini DV tapes. On the tapes it says that they are for HDV and DV. When I shoot with the JVC and playback on the same camera everything is fine. But when I played back these tapes shot with the JVC on another mini DV camera which is not hdv, the audio is all distorted. Then I made another trial using normal dv tapes for shooting with the JVC. These tapes played good even on the other mini DV camcorder. Is this a normal thing to happen with the proHD tapes? And is it really a must to use proHD tapes for the HD100?

[yoda313]

I would imagine that hdv would not be backward compatible on standard dv camcorders. Its a different format. Just like you wouldn't expect a dvd to playback on a standalone vcd player. Though they look the same the formats are completely different.

I imagine you got lucky it played back at all. Though why do you need to if you have the original camcorder?

[palmierg]

Sorry I forgot to tell you, for the time being I am filming in DV with the HD100 as my product will end on dvd for home users. I was trying to playback on another camera to save the running hours on th JVC.