I have another miniDV vcr that has these two errors when I try it on with a tape 7203 and 7001. Anyone ever had luck resurrecting these miniDV VCRs? Would love to it to archive my tapes instead of another camera
Anybody know what I could do to potentially stop this vcr from eating my tapes? I ran a few tapes through seemed good then on the third it completely messed up the tape. I had operate surgery on my tape and cut out the ruined parts then reassemble the miniDV tape to save it! Don’t wanna go through that again 😩
So I took a gamble on an untested Panasonic AG-DVX100A without a battery. I finally get batteries, turn it on and insert a tape I hit record and then blue screen S REEL LOCK appears on the screen. Takes multiple tries to get the camera to release the tape. Had to remove battery multiple times until it finally would do it. Tried blowing air in the tape area, moving the spinning parts and used a QTip with electronic contact cleaner to clean up parts. Still no luck. Any advice? Know anyone who services these? Such a cool camera! So bummed 😩