Posted by Jim on 12/23/07 03:28

"Richard Crowley" <rcrowley@xp7rt.net> wrote in message
news:13mrjb8sbq52bed@corp.supernews.com...
> "Jim" wrote ...
>> A question for the skeptical, professional, and those in the know.....
>>
>> Looking at a Sony HVR-A1U listed as mint in box with all accessories.
>> I am told hours are:
>> Operation: 0 x 10H
>> Drum Run: 0 x 10H
>> Tape Run: 0 x 10H
>> Threading: 4 x 10
>>
>>
>> Its never been turned on but had the tape inserted 40 times..?
>
> No. It means that it has <10 hours of operation,
> <10 hours of Drum running, and <10 hours of
> tape running. But it has had tape threaded (but
> not necessarily moving) for at least 40 hours.
> You must turn it on to thread tape, and the
> counters don't run when powered down.

Thanks for the response.
Yea.. duh me. It won't click 1x10 till 10 hours. so 0x10 is up to 9.99
hours.

Isn't threading the # of times a tape was threaded thru the heads?
Basically how many times a tape was inserterted and the threading operation
performed?
Thus the fact that there is no H in that integer?

So that means that the camera has pretty much run less than 10 hours and had
a cassette put in 40 times.

> Sounds like somebody who is dumping it in favor of a
> Canon HV20! :-)
> But seriously, who knows? Ask them!

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