Posted by Richard Crowley on 06/22/07 23:12

<kohlrabi_croce@yahoo.com> wrote ...
> I'm not sure if that's what the problem is - I put in an old
> tape in it that I recorded before this problem started,

So are you saying that tapes recently recorded playback OK?
Do recently recorded tapes play back elsewhere OK?

> and it plays, but there are black lines on the image,
> as seen in the viewfinder.

Does that mean only in the viewfinder, the video out of
the BVV5 is OK?

Likely need something more substantial than "black lines".
A frame-capture image posted online somewhere is worth
1000 words.

> I know the footage is good, it's the deck. I already tried
> cleaning the heads with a cleaning tape.
>
> So next week I have to look around for somebody to
> take a look at it. Does it sound like it might just need
> a little alignment?

That would be my first guess. Of course, if you have been
recording tapes out of alignment, then THEY won't play
back properly after the BVV5 is aligned. Recommend
going through all the tapes to determine which were
recorded out-of-interchange. You might want to dub them
before getting the machine fixed.

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