Is there are many causes. From tapes that have gone bad to being incompatible with what you have.
Remember that the folk that do such transfers have more than a few camcorders and players. You appear to have one camcorder. Now imagine if you ask which camcorder you need. Now that's a bit easier. Try the same model that these tapes were made on.
Bob
I already asked this question on many forums and never got any clear-cut answer.
My girlfriend decided to transfer all her old 8mm tapes of when she was young to DVD. Therefore, we bought a Hi8 camcorder and all the stuff to transfer the cassettes to video files and then burn them.
Here's the problem : the camcorder reads some tapes at the perfection, but on some others, it only shows a blue screen (the timer counts down) and some snow (it the classical noise of snow) from times to times. We looked on the internet, and believed it could be the sticky-shed symptom, but I don't believe so because this symptom affects older tapes. We cleaned the head of the camcorder too, no difference. The only difference between the playable tapes and the unplayable ones is that they are "anti-static lid".
Do you guys have any idea of what could be the problem ? Please, don't tell me to just send the tapes for them to be converted, I don't want to pay anyone, and I want to know what causes this problem.
If you have any question, or if I forgot some info, just reply and I'll give you all you want to know.
Thank you to all !

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