The advice is to forget the repair counter. And once you get over it, you find discussions about smacking it as well as BER (beyond economical repair) and finally you read about getting the content out before it dies altogether.
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hi i have a sony trv 250 and i have had it for a long time i havent used it in a long time and i tried to turn it on it works everything works but it just shows a black screen what can i do to fix this

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