Posted by Slash.Dash on 08/09/06 17:05

I have a Sony DCR-PC110E (Pal version) which I cannot fault, great
camcorder, but I have a problem with it. The firewire port is broken -
some of the pins have been pushed back on themselves - meaning that I
cannot upload any footage to my PC. I contacted Sony UK about a repair
and they quoted something like £170. I thought this was taking the
p1ss for something so trivial, so I looked around and got a brand new
JVC GR-D33EK for £160. The only reason I got it was that it was the
cheapest decent brand camcorder that I could find with a Firewire port.

So anyway, to the problem. When I record stuff on the Sony, and try to
play it back on the JVC I get some intermitent quality issues. About
every 10 seconds the picture goes all blocky, sometimes the frames get
scrambled around in a weird blocky fashion. This happens regardless of
how I view the picture, whether through the PC via firewire, on a TV
using A/V out or directly on the JVC itself. I always use the same
Sony Premium miniDV tapes and have no problem playing them back on a
friends Sony. Any ideas what the problem is? Better still how do I
fix it?

Thanks

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