Digital8 playback issue

[sebrame]

I've acquired a Sony DCR-TRV460, and when I try to play Hi8 or Video 8 recorded tapes in it, I get the following issue accompanied by the occasional blue screen. The camcorder is set to 'Auto' determine if a tape is Digital8 or Hi8/Video8, and that setting jumps back and forth, so I forced it to Hi8/Video8 in the Menu.


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I was able to clean the head and drum with 91% and it appeared very clean. To my rookie eyes, this really doesn't look to me to be an alignment issue from what I've seen videos about.

[dellsam34]

Is this the viewfinder or the actual captured footage?

[sebrame]

It's like this in the viewfinder.

[dellsam34]

That wasn't my question, I want to know if the actual footage has the pattern or just the viewfinder, If it's in the actual footage then it could be a bad chip, unseated ribbon cable, capacitors failure, dry/cracked solder joints ..etc.

[sebrame]

It's both in the viewfinder and on output. The attached photo is of the output. All tapes do this on this camera. I then played the tapes in a good working Hi8 camcorder, and they exhibited this issue initially for a second, then straighten themselves out.