That’s an interesting mechanism, it looks quite daunting just to think of tinkering with it if you have fix it. I didn’t see it coming that the controlpanel was sliding out, that was quite surprising. What a neat design!
Man I would have KILLED for something like this back in the days before I had a computer! I had to settle for consumer grade VHS for all my editing (went through a few machines too with my heavy editing).
I also have one of these, which was given to me. I just had to lubricate the tape loading mechanism slightly due to poor previous storage, but other than that it's been no trouble in the 5+ years I've owned it. You can see it at the end of the outro of most of my videos. I've also worked on some other DV/DVCAM units on my channel, most recently the DSR-30P. The soldering which someone has done to your machine is just awful, I don't know how anyone could do something so bad, and yet seemingly be at least vaguely aware of what he/she is doing.
There are step-by-step repair instructions for a shorted power supply available online in German language. I suspect whoever did this 'repair' just followed the instructions and was lucky that it fixed the problem...
Never knew there was a full sized version. I always knew these as Mini DV, never knowing there was a full sized tapes, thinking the "Mini DV" was just referring to how small the casettes were, being smaller than Digital 8.
There was another format called DVCPRO, which can also take DV sized tapes (and miniDV with an adaptor), and that format brings us another two sizes. M size, which is almost exactly the same size as 8mm, and XL is which is super large, but quite rare. So there are a few machines which will take up to four different tape sizes (one with the adaptor).
I bought a MiniDV camcorder in 1998 but I didn't know recorders like these existed. This might have been my next VCR if I wouldn't have emigrated to the USA in 2000...
Hi, we have a DHR-1000vc and it does not load any miniDV casettes anymore. it powers up but when we insert the casette nothing happens. any tips or tricks how we can fix this?
Also there was resin around the solder joints of these capacitors. They must have been replaced at some point, before the person with the non-existent solder skills came to replace those transistors. Strange that they didn't also replace the little capacitor on the primary side.
Another thing. There is a com on fault on this unit, simple but could turn catastrophic... The inner "clock "battery, as it gets old, runs leeky, acid goes to pcb and causes all king of strange symptoms... It is under the upper right pcb... Big round capacitor.... 0.22F if i remembers.... If you have any question send me a message i have repaired several of these, as a SONY TECH.
Thank you for the info, I will take a look at that backup capacitor and replace it if necessary. Soon I will upload the second part of this video in which I try to repair the DV port. Unfortunately not successfully, I checked that there is continuity from the DV jack on the front to the JC-13 processor board in the back, but I have no idea what to do now... Any ideas?
@@DrCassette unfortunatly firewire connections on Sony equipment are prone to fail... Most of the times the processor itself is the fault. Other than that, there is usually a couple of low value resistors and coils for protection on the path. If those are OK. My best guest is the IC is kaput!!!
@@zerosanity01986 Okay, that's too bad... When I checked for continuity I found there are shortcircuits between pins of the Firewire on the JC-13 board. According to the schematic the Firewire pins connect straight to IC702, but there is also some other circuitry connected in parallel that may be faulty. But the JC-13 board is so complex that I can't really diagnose anything :(
Hello, I have the same machine but suddenly I don't have no image/sound playback. Recording is okay. Plse do you have any idea what could be wrong? Thx in advance. Best regards/Geert
I have one of these myself, and it's absolutely fantastic. I have one question though. I see on the front there is a line in for video and s-video, and I get signal on the player when connecting my VHS-deck using S-video to this connection, but I get no signal on my computer when connecting using a Firewire cable. I'm not sure if this is intentional, or if this device can be used as a ADV converter for other decks like the VHS and so on? Or will I have to get a standalone ADV, like the Canopus 110 or similar? :)
As far as I know this recorder does not have the ability to convert the analog inputs directly to Firewire. So you will have to get a separate analog to digital converter.
How did you get your hands on this machine? I recently bought one, the same exact model, refurbished on eBay for quite a lot of money, and it was damaged during shipping unfortunately, so I returned it. The mechanism jammed when I inserted a tape and it was immidiately ejecting it.
I got this machine from a friend in exchange for some equipment I had in my collection. And just to clarify, this friend is not the one who did the terrible soldering. Too bad your machine didn't work...
OK, I had no idea there was such a thing as a full size DV cassette, I just thought there was only MiniDV and of course Digital 8 and its variants and predecessors. I watched part 2 before watching part 1, and my first thought was this was a DVHS machine, clearly not.
@@DrCassette Sure, the format was not around for long at all. How commonplace was full size DV tape? Was this VCR meant for use in video editing environments like in a video production studio? That remote control unit very much makes me think it was. Then again, I know nothing about video editing.
Fullsize DV was rather uncommon, these cassettes offered 3 hours of playtime, which you did not commonly need. The fullsize DVCAM cassettes are much more popular, because Sony had a very popular line of professional ENG camcorders that would take them, and because in DVCAM mode a one hour MiniDV cassette would only give you about 20 minutes recording time. These DV VCRs were mostly used for video editing, the DHR-1000VC does have a TV tuner, but it was way too expensive to just be used for timer-taping TV shows.
@@DrCassette OK, I follow you. I presume the TV tuner is analogue only, yes? So a VCR like this would have been used in a TV station and when the journalists came back to the studio they'd hand in their tapes for editing before being put to air I suppose.
Given the age of the VCR, the TV tuner of course is analog. These machines were still prosumer-grade equipment, so mostly hobbyists used them to edit their home and holiday videos. I imagine they were also popular with wedding videographers. For professional work there was DVCAM. Remember, DV VCRs can only play back DVCAM, so there was actually a DVCAM version of the DHR-1000VC called the DSR-30 that could also record in DVCAM mode. TV stations would only use DVCAM if they were on a tight budget, commonly they had better equipment such as Betacam.
Ich glaube bei Media Markt anno dazumal so ein Gerät gesehen zu haben, es war sau teuer, also unerreichbar. Digitale Kopien waren das Schreckgespenst der Industrie, deshalb auch der exorbitante Preis.
Kopien urheberrechtlich geschützter Inhalte waren nie der Haupteinsatzzweck von DV. Diese Geräte waren für ambitionierte Hobbyfilmer und Profis mit 'kleinem' Budget gedacht, um Aufnahmen aus DV-Camcordern mit Hilfe von eingebautem Schnittcomputer und Fernsteuerung für ein Abspielgerät zu ordentlichen Filmen zusammenzuschneiden. Um einfach nur eine digitale Kopie zur (illegalen?) Weitergabe anzufertigen, braucht man 90% der Funktionen dieses Gerätes gar nicht.
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Previous attempts at repairing this make my soldering efforts look positively professional!
That’s an interesting mechanism, it looks quite daunting just to think of tinkering with it if you have fix it. I didn’t see it coming that the controlpanel was sliding out, that was quite surprising. What a neat design!
Man I would have KILLED for something like this back in the days before I had a computer! I had to settle for consumer grade VHS for all my editing (went through a few machines too with my heavy editing).
I also have one of these, which was given to me. I just had to lubricate the tape loading mechanism slightly due to poor previous storage, but other than that it's been no trouble in the 5+ years I've owned it. You can see it at the end of the outro of most of my videos. I've also worked on some other DV/DVCAM units on my channel, most recently the DSR-30P.
The soldering which someone has done to your machine is just awful, I don't know how anyone could do something so bad, and yet seemingly be at least vaguely aware of what he/she is doing.
There are step-by-step repair instructions for a shorted power supply available online in German language. I suspect whoever did this 'repair' just followed the instructions and was lucky that it fixed the problem...
5:01 ...you insulted a lot of kindergarten folks with that.
Never knew there was a full sized version. I always knew these as Mini DV, never knowing there was a full sized tapes, thinking the "Mini DV" was just referring to how small the casettes were, being smaller than Digital 8.
There was another format called DVCPRO, which can also take DV sized tapes (and miniDV with an adaptor), and that format brings us another two sizes. M size, which is almost exactly the same size as 8mm, and XL is which is super large, but quite rare. So there are a few machines which will take up to four different tape sizes (one with the adaptor).
I bought a MiniDV camcorder in 1998 but I didn't know recorders like these existed. This might have been my next VCR if I wouldn't have emigrated to the USA in 2000...
Hello Dr, which camera do you use to film? It’s great with the closeups, and has great colour rendering. Thanks for the video.
It's the main camera of the Samsung S10 smartphone. It does a very good job, but you have to watch and make sure everything is in focus.
DrCassette - It puts out an impressive picture! Always enjoy your videos, looking forward to more.
I was a retired Sony technican, I fixed this model too.
It looks as though the fusible resistor has been replaced with a regular metal film resistor. Might be worth checking if you haven't already done so.
I know the fusible resistor is just a standard resistor, but that's what is listed in the schematic in the service manual... I did check that.
Wow nice repair immhave many miniDV is my history of me and many video im made with it with different camera
interesting model
Hi, we have a DHR-1000vc and it does not load any miniDV casettes anymore. it powers up but when we insert the casette nothing happens. any tips or tricks how we can fix this?
7:40 - I don't believe those filter caps are original. Note that the solder-joints are *shinier* than the production solder-joints.
Also there was resin around the solder joints of these capacitors. They must have been replaced at some point, before the person with the non-existent solder skills came to replace those transistors. Strange that they didn't also replace the little capacitor on the primary side.
Another thing. There is a com on fault on this unit, simple but could turn catastrophic... The inner "clock "battery, as it gets old, runs leeky, acid goes to pcb and causes all king of strange symptoms... It is under the upper right pcb... Big round capacitor.... 0.22F if i remembers.... If you have any question send me a message i have repaired several of these, as a SONY TECH.
Thank you for the info, I will take a look at that backup capacitor and replace it if necessary. Soon I will upload the second part of this video in which I try to repair the DV port. Unfortunately not successfully, I checked that there is continuity from the DV jack on the front to the JC-13 processor board in the back, but I have no idea what to do now... Any ideas?
@@DrCassette unfortunatly firewire connections on Sony equipment are prone to fail... Most of the times the processor itself is the fault. Other than that, there is usually a couple of low value resistors and coils for protection on the path. If those are OK. My best guest is the IC is kaput!!!
@@zerosanity01986 Okay, that's too bad... When I checked for continuity I found there are shortcircuits between pins of the Firewire on the JC-13 board. According to the schematic the Firewire pins connect straight to IC702, but there is also some other circuitry connected in parallel that may be faulty. But the JC-13 board is so complex that I can't really diagnose anything :(
@@DrCassette Yep.. The problem is that. More than one IC May be faulty. We usually swapped the board At work.
Hello, I have the same machine but suddenly I don't have no image/sound playback. Recording is okay.
Plse do you have any idea what could be wrong?
Thx in advance.
Best regards/Geert
I have one of these myself, and it's absolutely fantastic. I have one question though. I see on the front there is a line in for video and s-video, and I get signal on the player when connecting my VHS-deck using S-video to this connection, but I get no signal on my computer when connecting using a Firewire cable. I'm not sure if this is intentional, or if this device can be used as a ADV converter for other decks like the VHS and so on? Or will I have to get a standalone ADV, like the Canopus 110 or similar? :)
As far as I know this recorder does not have the ability to convert the analog inputs directly to Firewire. So you will have to get a separate analog to digital converter.
@@DrCassette Thanks for answering. Any suggestion for a good s-video recorder/converter? I heard the old ADVC110 may still be the best way to go?
@@OuglandMedia ADVC-100 and ADVC-300 can "ignore" Macrovision, ADVC-110 probably can't. But, ADVC-300 has TBC and noise reductor.
How did you get your hands on this machine? I recently bought one, the same exact model, refurbished on eBay for quite a lot of money, and it was damaged during shipping unfortunately, so I returned it. The mechanism jammed when I inserted a tape and it was immidiately ejecting it.
I got this machine from a friend in exchange for some equipment I had in my collection. And just to clarify, this friend is not the one who did the terrible soldering.
Too bad your machine didn't work...
OK, I had no idea there was such a thing as a full size DV cassette, I just thought there was only MiniDV and of course Digital 8 and its variants and predecessors. I watched part 2 before watching part 1, and my first thought was this was a DVHS machine, clearly not.
I actually don't think I would bother with a DVHS machine, that format is just too obscure, I would never get any use out of it.
@@DrCassette Sure, the format was not around for long at all. How commonplace was full size DV tape? Was this VCR meant for use in video editing environments like in a video production studio? That remote control unit very much makes me think it was. Then again, I know nothing about video editing.
Fullsize DV was rather uncommon, these cassettes offered 3 hours of playtime, which you did not commonly need. The fullsize DVCAM cassettes are much more popular, because Sony had a very popular line of professional ENG camcorders that would take them, and because in DVCAM mode a one hour MiniDV cassette would only give you about 20 minutes recording time. These DV VCRs were mostly used for video editing, the DHR-1000VC does have a TV tuner, but it was way too expensive to just be used for timer-taping TV shows.
@@DrCassette OK, I follow you. I presume the TV tuner is analogue only, yes? So a VCR like this would have been used in a TV station and when the journalists came back to the studio they'd hand in their tapes for editing before being put to air I suppose.
Given the age of the VCR, the TV tuner of course is analog. These machines were still prosumer-grade equipment, so mostly hobbyists used them to edit their home and holiday videos. I imagine they were also popular with wedding videographers. For professional work there was DVCAM. Remember, DV VCRs can only play back DVCAM, so there was actually a DVCAM version of the DHR-1000VC called the DSR-30 that could also record in DVCAM mode. TV stations would only use DVCAM if they were on a tight budget, commonly they had better equipment such as Betacam.
so cool! i want more!
There will be more soon :)
@@DrCassette its good news! thanks
Ich glaube bei Media Markt anno dazumal so ein Gerät gesehen zu haben, es war sau teuer, also unerreichbar. Digitale Kopien waren das Schreckgespenst der Industrie, deshalb auch der exorbitante Preis.
Kopien urheberrechtlich geschützter Inhalte waren nie der Haupteinsatzzweck von DV. Diese Geräte waren für ambitionierte Hobbyfilmer und Profis mit 'kleinem' Budget gedacht, um Aufnahmen aus DV-Camcordern mit Hilfe von eingebautem Schnittcomputer und Fernsteuerung für ein Abspielgerät zu ordentlichen Filmen zusammenzuschneiden. Um einfach nur eine digitale Kopie zur (illegalen?) Weitergabe anzufertigen, braucht man 90% der Funktionen dieses Gerätes gar nicht.