Sony DCR-TRV260 NTSC - Digital8

[Litaiff]

Hello there!
Just bought this camcorder and it won't play the tapes i have in here, I have just blue screen, I did a clean on the heads and still won't play the tapes.

But all the tapes i have here are only with hi8 analogics videos. Is this camera only for play digital 8 tapes? Or it's another problem?

The tapes are good and clean and tested on an analog Hi8 camera.


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[Litaiff]

I just discovered on YouTube that yes, this camera model only accepts digital 8 tapes, it does not read hi8, video8 etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq-_8s-VHbM

[Alwyn]

Most of these camcorders have manuals either on the Sony website or the one I access a lot, Manualslib.com. They'll say what the machine will play.

For a consolidated list (that may not be exhaustive or correct-check the manual to confirm):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital8#Analog_recordings

plus these revisions:

-TRV330E (PAL); has TBC, DNR and passthru.
-TRV340E (PAL); has TBC, DNR and passthru.