Cleaning minidv?

[capman21]

My minidv was showing signs of dirty heads, distorted playback, color blocks in the playback. I bought a cleaning tape, and used it once but it still seems to be dirty. It says to clean it only once. Do you guys clean yours more than once in a row? I am begining to think its the tape I was using, because where the heads were dirty it made those teeth marks on the minidv tape.

[Bodyslide]

Each Minidv tape cleaner can normally be used about 35-40 times. You are suppose to run one cycle of ten seconds, then do another cleaning. You might need to try 3 or 4 ten second cleanings back to back. Play for 10 seconds then stop for a few seconds and continue.. Once you reach the end of the cleaning tape your suppose to trash it. Good Luck..

[aedipuss]

if the tape shows wear marks throw it out it's toast. if the next tape gets those same marks also, the heads may be damaged. i've never used a cleaning tape even after hundreds of hours of recording and playback.

start with a high quality tape and always stick with the same brand.

[capman21]

I have been using Sony tapes, and good grief I hope it isnt bad heads. It seems the two tapes I have been using have the teeth marks so hopefully its just because the heads were dirty, because those were the tapes I was using when it was dirty.

[InXess]

Get your camcorder to a good serviceman to clean heads and check your tape transport path. Can't be more then 30-40 bucks. Much better then guessing...