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Posted by Gary Eickmeier on 10/09/86 11:49
Richard Crowley wrote:
> Millions of people use miniDV technology every day without
> any of those kinds of problems. There does not appear to be
> any kind of fundamental "problem with Mini DV technology".
>
> You will get little practical help here unless you start giving
> specifics like make/model, etc. "4 different players" means
> nothing to us.
Richard, you must be wrong about this. I have a VX2000 that started out
life just fine, but then I ran into a patch of audio dropouts where
there were no problems with the video. I sent it in twice, the first
time for the audio dropout problem, the second to correct the head
misalignment that they inflicted on me, wherein the camera wouldn't play
back tapes that were recorded on our other VX2000s. As I recall, the
video came in OK, but there was NO audio track. Got worse at LP speed.
Now, I discover that even after a realignment, the camera has bad sound
dropouts when using 80 minute tapes at LP speed. Didn't try it at SP.
Had to shoot high school graduations that last two hours each. OUr other
VX2000s shot these events just fine.
There is some serious design defect with this format, in which it seems
unable to automatically track the recorded signal itself. It has to be
manually adjusted perfectly, or no dice. And the repair shops either
don't know how or don't give a shit. Never had these problems with VHS.
I think the problem with the OP's camera or tapes is this head
alignment, wherein the tapes recorded on one camera or recorder are not
playable on another Mini DV camera.
Absolutely unconscienable.
Gary Eickmeier
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