Nori Wentworth
January 15th, 2003, 04:18 PM
Advice to anyone buying MINIDV tapes, avoid JVC.
I have used close to 100 JVC tapes since I purchased my XL1 almost two years ago. At first about 1 out of 20 tapes were being eaten, the percentage began growing in time.
My thought; "Must be that my camera just needs a cleaning. I'll send it to Canon service when I finish the project I am working on."
During the shoot I use 10 JVC tapes, 5 are eaten.
"Blast this infernal machine." I think.
Off to Canonland the camera goes, along with my complaint of tapes being eaten.
Now, I'm not bad mouthing Canon here, they made the camera, so they should know what is causing this problem, and hopefully have a solution. Right?
4 weeks later I get the camera back, Along with a bill of over $1000!
At first, rage began boiling through my blood. "That much for a cleaning?". No, not the case. They replaced the entire recording mechanism.
After kicking my cat around for a while and banging my head in my car door, I came to the realization that I had put plenty of time on my camera, and I should be lucky that nothing else has gone wrong.
So, I re-assemble my baby slap in a JVC tape and what happens...
CRUNCH! WRRRRRR! The tape gets eaten.
Later I buy a box of TDK tapes. I test all 10 of the tapes. Result: NO PROBLEM FOUND.
Next I test the last JVC tape from my box. Result: EATEN, please proceed to bang head in car door.
Anyway, I write JVC a formal letter, not whining just simply advising them of a fault in their tapes. All I was hoping for was an appology letter, but honestly I wasn't expecting any sort of reply.
It has now been over two months since all of this happened, still with no response. I wish this problem upon no one else.
And my advice to anyone buying MINIDV tapes, avoid JVC.
-Nori
I have used close to 100 JVC tapes since I purchased my XL1 almost two years ago. At first about 1 out of 20 tapes were being eaten, the percentage began growing in time.
My thought; "Must be that my camera just needs a cleaning. I'll send it to Canon service when I finish the project I am working on."
During the shoot I use 10 JVC tapes, 5 are eaten.
"Blast this infernal machine." I think.
Off to Canonland the camera goes, along with my complaint of tapes being eaten.
Now, I'm not bad mouthing Canon here, they made the camera, so they should know what is causing this problem, and hopefully have a solution. Right?
4 weeks later I get the camera back, Along with a bill of over $1000!
At first, rage began boiling through my blood. "That much for a cleaning?". No, not the case. They replaced the entire recording mechanism.
After kicking my cat around for a while and banging my head in my car door, I came to the realization that I had put plenty of time on my camera, and I should be lucky that nothing else has gone wrong.
So, I re-assemble my baby slap in a JVC tape and what happens...
CRUNCH! WRRRRRR! The tape gets eaten.
Later I buy a box of TDK tapes. I test all 10 of the tapes. Result: NO PROBLEM FOUND.
Next I test the last JVC tape from my box. Result: EATEN, please proceed to bang head in car door.
Anyway, I write JVC a formal letter, not whining just simply advising them of a fault in their tapes. All I was hoping for was an appology letter, but honestly I wasn't expecting any sort of reply.
It has now been over two months since all of this happened, still with no response. I wish this problem upon no one else.
And my advice to anyone buying MINIDV tapes, avoid JVC.
-Nori