Hi,

I've been using the above camcorder of my father's to digitise his catalog of home recordings. All had been going fine, I've done about 5 tapes with no issues, then suddenly on a tape it stopped working. I was playing back a video and the footage was fine but it then went to blue screen, the timecode just shows dashes now with not numbers and no footage showing, despite me scanning the tape first and could see there was 30 minutes of footage. I rewound the tape to the beginning and it no longer played the footage I'd just seen.

I also tried the previous 5 tapes that I had digitised already and they all no longer playback any footage, just blue screen. The mechanism is working, the tape goes forward when pressing play and everything else seems to be working mechanicaly.

I tried using a cleaning tape to no joy. I cannot see any obstructions inside the tape deck. I also tried recording some new footage on one of the tapes I'd already digitised, and that seemed to be working - it showed the time code whilst recording and then when I went back to playback mode, the timecode showed, but when I went to view the footage back, it again went just to dashes and the footage did not show.

I really don't want to have to buy a new player, so if anyone can help with if this is fixable that'd be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!