Need to play corrupted mini-DV tapes

[funcrew]

A number of years ago, I recorded some mini-DV tapes on a CANON camcorder I had bought used. During later servicing of the camcorder, the shop noticed that the tracking was way off (probably from being bumped), so they set it to factory specs. When I got the camcorder back, all my recorded tapes would barely play at all. SO, my question is, is there a device with adjustable tracking that can read tapes that were recorded with screwed-up tracking?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[JohnnyMalaria]

The only option is to have the heads deliberately misaligned by the same shop. They'd need one of the tapes to work with. However, aligning DV heads is more complicated than, say, VHS heads which you can eye ball. A special tape with various test signals is needed. Of course, this would may make it quite difficult to deliberately misalign the heads "correctly".

[funcrew]

The only option is to have the heads deliberately misaligned by the same shop. They'd need one of the tapes to work with. However, aligning DV heads is more complicated than, say, VHS heads which you can eye ball. A special tape with various test signals is needed. Of course, this would may make it quite difficult to deliberately misalign the heads "correctly".

Thanks for your reply!