Nori Wentworth
September 18th, 2002, 02:14 PM
Has anyone experienced a problem with tapes being eaten?
If so, is it more common to one brand than another. From my experience about 1 in 10 of my JVC M-DV60ME are being eaten.
I can't really attribute this problem to the tape since I haven't had my camera "checked out" for two years now.
But just checking to see what everyone else thinks.
Thanks- Nori
Don Palomaki
September 18th, 2002, 03:57 PM
FWIW: I use Panasonic MiniDV tape. No eaten tape problem in the 4 years I've had the XL1.
Nori Wentworth
September 18th, 2002, 05:04 PM
I should also add that I have shot 2 features and about 10 shorts and music videos with my camera and I have only had problems with the JVC lately. I've used about 100 different tapes, of numerous brands.
Bill Markel
September 18th, 2002, 06:29 PM
Nori,
What mode was the camera in when the hunger pains began? (Play, rewind, eject, etc.???)
I have recently had a problem with my camera getting hungry in the rewind mode. I had to buy a mini dv winder to do all fast forwarding and rewinding. I have changed brands and it is still happening.
To make matters worse, the New Jersey repair facility couldn't find a problem.
Not cool.
Good Luck,
Bill
Nori Wentworth
September 19th, 2002, 10:03 AM
It has always been within the first minute of a new tape when recording.
John Wilcox
September 19th, 2002, 01:30 PM
Nori
My XL1s started eating tapes whenever I hit rewind button, leading me to look into possible reasons for this problem. I have been informed by various XL1s users over here (UK) that this is not an uncommon problem with new XL1s'.
It sounds like a send your XL1in to Canon for repair, that's what I'm having to do.
John
John Wilcox
September 19th, 2002, 01:37 PM
oops!
Just realised I addressed my reply to Bills post to Nori
Appologies to both for the mix up
John
Josh Bass
September 19th, 2002, 03:28 PM
I got to the end of a tape once, and when I rewound, it forced me to eject the tape. The tape itself was caught up in the play heads. Only happened once, with a Panasonic Linear Plus.
Phil French
September 20th, 2002, 08:35 PM
I've tried about 10 JVC ME tapes and have had problems with one of them. My machine did not eat the tape but it had a bad (unrecordable) spot about three quarters of the way through and of course my time code was interrupted. When I rewind it is really jittery and noisy (makes me nervous, especially after reading about your experience). I'm still hunting for a consistantly reliable brand - I guess Panasonic is next...