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HELP!!! Horizontal lines during playback on my mini-DV.

Jan 11, 2006 12:07PM PST

I have thick horizontal lines appearing during playback through my 4yo Panasonic MX7a mini-DV camera.
I ran the head cleaner through a couple of times, but no change.

Below are photo's of the problem:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y157/bscampbell/P1101450.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y157/bscampbell/P1101448.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y157/bscampbell/P1101447.jpg

The black image you can see on the white horizontal lines is the lens cap!
I have checked this again, and found the problematic lines to change, now they are just black!
The darker part of the image is the actual video playback.

So, it is playing the video on some of the lines, but is the 'real-time' image on the other horizontal lines.

These lines also appear on older tapes, so I am not just watching a problem with the current tape.

I really hope this problem has not been recorded since the problem occurred, which could be up to a tape or 2 ago, and that it's just present during playback.

What's going on?

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Yes. Solved.
Aug 5, 2008 11:27PM PDT

But I read you are not willing to pay up.

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ma be too late, but i fixed that on my cam
Nov 27, 2012 2:07AM PST

it is more than 2 years when my cam started to make this black stripes by playback....head cleaning did not help, and with new tape it was shortly ok, today i made one big discover for me, i just connect metal mechanism in the tape doors with one wire which was connected to a ground in 220V the same i made with tape, simple small touch and now it works fine for me, some tapes were before unreadable but now they are, so i hope it help my cam is Panasonic GS25