I just got my camera back from repair and win XP recognizes the HC1 when it is plugged into the firewire - the only problem is that Sony 6 says - DEVICE NOT AVAILABLE even after I change the device settings to IEEE-Mpg-2TS (or something like that).

Any ideas why it isn't seen? What should I do?

Weird enough, it captures from the HC1 in DV mode, but not in HDV capture mode...

Hi
the problem is XP - it failed to point out that is HDV camera
as HC1 has DV mode too.
i think www.hdvforever.com has sdetail tutorial on how to make the XP install driver. it;'s basicaly manuall install as sony > tape recorder or something

once this is done it s no problem

JY