TDK 8mm HS90 not working on Hitachi VM-E648LE?

[alexxci]

Hey guys, I'm in the process of digitizing a bunch of old cassettes. I'm using the Hitachi to play the TDK 8mm HS90 tapes, and Fuhi p5-90 tapes. I'm deep into 7 and they ALL show this:


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All of these tapes have written titles, such as "wedding day" or "departing day 1". I really doubt someone sat around erasing all of these tapes. I have been able to use some 8mm tapes on this recorder successfully. I also tried to recording a little bit on the HS90 tape, which worked fine. I'm just concerned if perhaps it does have recorded information on it, but in a format not readable by my (pal8) camcorder. Is this a possibility?

[dellsam34]

Try clean the video heads on the video drum, Do you own research on how to clean the video heads properly.

[alexxci]

Try clean the video heads on the video drum, Do you own research on how to clean the video heads properly.

This is not the issue. As I mentioned in the OP, I am able to record over bits of the tape and play it back.

[dellsam34]

Sorry didn't notice the second part of your post, If the tapes have recordings on them they have to be Digital8, therefore you need a D8 camcorder. In that case you will need a firewire port to transfer (not capture) the contents of the tapes to computer without any loss using apps like ScenlyzerLive or WinDV.