I said the slogan so that puts me in the draw if someone at corus sees it.

I did dozens of shows. Pantomime plays ect. If I find some of them I will post as they were a hoot, and VERY politically incorrect. Some of the tunes they sung were darn right racist if you listened to the lyrics. I believe I have all of them here somewhere, just have to find the tapes. I have hundreds, of tapes as I kept pretty much all the master tapes for work I did.

@@12voltvids Back in those days I did lighting and sometimes sound for some musicals, dramas, ballet shows, choir concerts, talent shows, etc. The typical types of plays and shows children and teens did in middle and high school theatres in the mid-1990s in the USA. I am not sure if Canadian Schools middle and high schools have theater and stagecraft classes or not.

@@stphinkle yes we had theatre and stagecraft classes. I did lighting and sound reinforcements myself.

They sure do. All the way from the "A" mechanism.

This one will play pal tapes too. Just digital 8 though. Don't think it will play pal analog.

I have several D8 camcorders. Just for clarification... these camcorders don't output pure NTSC 3.58Mhz signals when playing back NTSC tapes. They output pseudo color systems such as PAL60 or NTSC 4.43. This is usually not a problem when viewing content on a TV but will give you problems when capturing. You need a capture device that understands those color systems. Same applies with NTSC camcorders outputing NTSC 50 when playing back PAL tapes.

@@josem.martinez856 that's right and the NTSC camera will play a pal digital 8 tape as will my DV deck and when you capture over FireWire the software has to be set for 50i not 60i. Computers can play they file but if you make a dvd it is a 50i disk that won't play on many domestic players. So frame rate conversion is necessary before turning out a dvd.

@@12voltvids Another great feature of some of these camcorders is their ability to work as a passthrough device taking an analog signal as an input and outputting a DV encoded signal out of the firewire port letting you capture from all your analog formats using your favourite NLE. And in the case of PAL, which is 4:2:0, it produces excellent results.

@@josem.martinez856 Right. I forget if this one has pass through. Will check. I know the gvd800 and my 2 dcrtrv730 do, but i don't thing this first gen had that feature. It could record an analog signal and then play the tape out the FireWire. I know that for sure as I did that. I used to connect it to my evw300 camera as an external recorder and make some beautiful recordings. A 3ccd hyper HAD camera into a digital recorder using component recording. (Svideo is a component signal car by the way. Called Y/VU and the other type of component is YcRcB which used 3 conductors vs 2.) They both deliver the same results.

Yes i have 4 umatic and they all worked last time I turned them on but who knows today. I just got a umatic in to change belts. Will be on that this week.

@@12voltvids AMAZING - Old tape can be very messy as it breaks down and gums up everything. An oven pre-bake and then wind into another shell may be required even for your own test/align tapes. Take care, stay safe.

You just answered your own question. Either the flex cable or the 't" switch.

It's kept in my edit suite and it is climate controlled and dry. In addition to the HVAC for the house there is a seperate Ac in the wall that I turn on when working in the summer and have all the equipment on. Gets pretty warm. So moisture not a problem in here. AC is a dehumidifier

I believe it will play LP analog, however I have no analog LP tapes to try in it. Never used LP. I dont even know if any of the cameras I have have LP. Definitely it will not plat LP digital 8 tapes.

Old used camera likely has bad caps. Those of us in the archiving business don't use old cameras and maintain our playback equipment all the time. I use the last generation digital 8 with analog playback capability myself.

Have you done the fingernail cleaning? Alcohol won't cleaned a head clogged with metal paryicals from tape. Has to be scrapped off and the back of fingernail works great. Acetone or other harsh chemicals could dissolve the glue that holds the head chip on the mount. Xylene used to be used at the tv station I worked at but it will ruin plastic and rubber parts.

Yeah it seems to be the exact problem, have you made a video with that camera body? or should I try to use this as a guide

I have a few from way back. Every new camera used to cone with one.

That's mold and there is a procedure to deal with it. I have a video showing how i have done it. It's a tedious time consuming procedure that involves spooling the tape by hand while stretching the tape out to force the tape tighter onto the reel causing the tape pack to slip between the tape layers

Only use dry type cleaning tapes and follow directions on the tape. (Insert tape, press play run for 10 seconds and eject without rewinding.)

@@12voltvids thanks for the comment I have no idea how to tell if I have dry type. It has digital 8 symbol and is from Sony… this is digital 8 player and from Sony. … no instructions like maybe digital 8 is used for computer gear possibly

It got better after cleaning but I think one of the heads is oxidised like in your video would need to test with digital tape to know for sure

@@flowstate_link That's a dry type tape. The wet cleaners you put liquid cleaner in. Alsop was a brand. These permanently disabled many VCRs and cameras by breaking guides off when they jammed.

@@12voltvids wow good to know!!!!!!

No, I don't. I have 4 units that use the same drum so i would be keeping any spares for myself if i had any. Same goes for the newer bottom loading chassis. I have 2 of those machines. I use these for my digitizing service and put probably 100 hours a month on the camreas. The only ones I sell parts from are units I don't use for conversions.

I was never a fan of the ME tapes because the early ones I tried were terrible. Many of the MP tapes were also crap. I believe the later ME tapes were better. All my miniDV tapes are ME as that is all they made and they have all held up well.

@@12voltvids so what your saying is i should pick *recent* made ME tapes , ok thanks :)

Get contact cleaner like Deoxit or other products and clean the switches. It probably uses a resistor latter to determine which button was pressed. If the switches are dirty, the resistance changes and the button does something unexpected cause the micro reads another voltage than the button should apply through the resistor latter. Dave L Jones made a video about it when he repaired the control panel of an old AC unit.

*I apologize - capacitors, not condenser

Used to call them condensers i knew what you were getting at. Yes all the surface mount caps are bad. The bigger issue is they cause a cancer on the board. The PCB is multi layer. The caustic liquid that spills out if the caps soaks into the board and eats the traces destroying the board. So you could change all the caps and still have a dead camera. I refuse these jobs and only attempt it on cameras that are given to me and if i can't fix I toss it away.

@@12voltvids Do you say cancer? It is, I understand, about PolyChlorinated Biphenyl (PCB) and dioxin, not printed circuit board, as the translator translated to me) I heard about these substances, but thought that they were used only in Soviet industry. Googled and realized that the ancestor of the notorious Monsanto. And the big customer was the American armed forces during Operation Ranch Hand in South Vietnam. Thank you very much for the warning, respect! Sorry, if I don't understand, I don't speak English, I use a translator.

@@vetrov888 It was referred to a camcorder cancer. Not Cancer as in the disease that people get. Camcorder cancer was a term used to indicate that the circuit board was shot. Unrepairable, due to corrosion from caustic electrolyte from capacitor leakage.

@@12voltvids Oh, funny, spoiled translator)) So you can calmly carpet the board, clean the tracks from corrosion with electrolyte and change smd capacitors without fear of health? But the Soviet industry is so harsh that it really used biphenyls in capacitors. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pLeVhrFkrrrWfnk.html. I hope you can translate an interesting video in Russian.

Sometimes yes. No guarantees that I can do anything due to parts availability.

Thank you ! I ran a head cleaner through it , it’s playing , how long I don’t know .. I got your contact now

Mine has mini dv connection but it is not always detected by the computer. I have checked several cables but it still being detected in an aleatory way...

@@reminder_cor I wouldn't necessary blame the camcorder for that. It's more than likely a software issue.

Well, for starters i am a diagnostic engineer. I know how these things work.

Not macroblocking, signal missing from 1 head. On DV this would result in perfect bands of frozen picture, but on digital 8, because the tracks are stacked, the sections or frozen picture are staggered throughout the picture.

@@12voltvids ahhh I hear ya. I saw some rectangles because of what you just wrote, so I automatically equated them to what happens with low bitrate/poor codec.

@@MrChrisRP bit rate on digital 8, miniDV and DVCam are identical. 25m bits. File size 12 gigs per hour.

@@12voltvids That's quite high for the back in the day technology, for sure. I never used any of those formats before. heh

@@MrChrisRP That was actually considered low.

It's an ongoing problem. Always has and hasn't gotten better with age that's for sure.

@@12voltvids hmm 🤔 yes

Roll the dice and take your chances. Most of the old cameras up for sale have problems. Send the tapes out to be digitized professionally is best option as if tapes are moldy they can be demolded at same time.

@@12voltvids That's what we do is professionally digitize all media, Umatic-as well as other early television video audio, consumer media. There are plenty of reliable eBay sellers ie "doctor-sony". Thanks for the video regardless.

No, it's a real contest by the radio station. Ratings time, they do it to drum up listeners. Been talking about it all week. Not a scam. In the 90s i won 1040.00 from 1040 kicks back when they were a music station. Still have the sticker from them stuck on my old still functional microwave from the day. Their contest, the phrase that pays. They would make random phone calls and you had to answer the phone 10:40 kicks butt. If you said that you won the 1040 prize. They would always let listeners know the call was coming sometime in the next hour or so.. I was working at the TV shop and the boss would make me take lunch at 12:00 and I had to be back at 12:30 if I was one minute late he would chew my ass. So I was heading back to work in my car and I heard the DJ say they'd be making the call within the next hour, soon as I get back to the shop the boss and the salesman take off with a sales rep from Sony or Panasonic for lunch and I'm alone by myself in the store and now I have to answer phones. About 5 minutes after they left the phone rings and just instinctively I picked it up and instead of saying the name of the shop I said 1040 kicks butt and suddenly music started playing on the phone and all this excitement and I damn near had a heart attack they were recording it, the station was still playing music while the call is going on they recorded it and then at the end of that song they played it back I never said a word because the boss that SOB he was probably would have wanted the cash. I had to pick it up in person so I called in sick the next day so I could go down and claim my cash. 10 brand new sequential 100 bills and 2 20s. Because these bills were brand new and sequential I never spent hang on to them for many years and then the bank announced that the old paper currency would no longer be acceptable because it lacked the security features that the new currency has and they had a deadline to get rid of all the old stuff so I went to the bank and deposited and the teller was quite amazed because she hadn't seen these old style bills in many years it was almost worth keeping but seeing a grand become just useless paper was something I couldn't do. Just at the beginning of this year Canada has devalued the old one and $2 bills as they were taken out of circulation many years ago.

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