You can get that same effect post. I just wouldn't be putting anything on video tape you plan on playing back down the road because these old mechanical recorders aren't going to run forever. I have always been an early adopter myself. I couldn't wait to say goodbye to video tape even though i have 2 full HD cameras that use tape, i don't use them.
Very good video and repair! I remember I had a Canon hi8 bought in 2004 but it was much older. The camera itself was really nice and survived without problem all the way forward till 2015 when i sold it. I used metal particle tapes with very good image results. I sold it however in 2015 for 50 60 dollars.
I’m going to have to disagree with you but personally myself and a lot of others still use 8 mm and Hi8 and SVHS to record. I’m young and learning camcorder repair and managed to recap a TR81 now it fully works. I have boxes of parts units too for parts and 100s of new blank 8mm tapes. I wish the TR81 had manual zoom but it doesn’t. Now I’m trying to find a TR7 with the manual zoom control and gonna tackle on fully recapping it. People like me will stick with analog video tape for many more years to come. Being young I’m not going anywhere. Definitely not for another 40 years.
Once i started to change the leaky capacitors from a videocamera and ended having replace about thirty capacitors.More than the half were located around the CCD sensor.Somewhere around in year 2000 as i remeber,really nightmare and since then i never work with videocameras.
Hello, I have the same video camera (it works fine) but the image in the viewfinder looks very dark, I can hardly see anything of the image that the camera is looking at, the numbers and the rest of the viewfinder look good but that is what is wrong, what can it be?
Theis one was a regular 8mm video camera, so 8mm video recorded a picture slightly better than VHS. About 240 lines of horizontal resolution. Remember this is analog, not digital so if you try to think of it as computer resolution, about 320x480 interlace, .. Hi8 did much better, 400 lines resolution 640x480 interlace. Aproximately, because analog has no pixels, it is a continuous waveform, limited by the bandwidth available.
Interesting stuff. I have a tr55e that's putting out a good image on the viewfinder but the output is dreadful. Any bright parts come out as blocks of grey and it jitters. Does this sound like caps to you?
Very good video. Working on getting my CCD-TR7 to work. Trying to figure out why it stops playing first. It plays for a few seconds then stops then the red caution light comes on. Any thoughts why. Have you trouble shot this problem?
I recently bought a Sony CCD-TRV608 Hi8 camera that, guess what? Im currently using for recording family videos. The thing's practically brand new, with even the original battery still taking a charge and lasting more than an hour. I've already recorded more than half a tape worth of footage, and I'm not planning to stop. You would think I totally lost my mind, and I guess you're right. Who the heck would want to use such a delicate device to record life's precious moments in 2020? But I did, because this thing still has a lot left to give. Not only is it super low hour, but i also suspect it was produced at the very end of the 8mm format, meaning it didnt suffer from those nasty late 90s caps. Also, Im not stupid, I am going to transfer each tape to digital as soon as Im done with it. Wish me luck!
You'll need it! I can't understand why anyone would want to use crapy analog video to record home videos on these days. Even just for the look you can soften a digital image to look just as bad as tape did and even throw in simulated drop outs. I dealt with tape for many years and I couldn't wait to abandon all tape even my HD tape formats. Recording to a file based format is so much better and easier to deal with and no farting around capturing the tape. Plug the memory card into computer and drag files to hard drive.
@@12voltvids I'm actually after the whole nostalgia it gives me. My dad made a ton of tapes (42 in total) with the two 8mm cameras he had over the years, and there's just a lot about this thing that instantly reminds me of my childhood; the beeps, the soft video quality, the date text, the sounds of the mechanism and the amazing zoom lens, everything. It's just a shame that they never really caught on in my country, and the few that remained are dead by now. Plus, aside from the official sony shops back in the day, there's absolutely no one capable of repairing the darn things, so a lot ended up in the trash. Feel sorry for whoever had his memories only on this format.
@@12voltvids maybe it's because you work with it for so long, I've never been impressed by digital solid state technology, but tiny precision mechanism, I love it, even the noise they made are all different between manufacturer. (Maybe because I got asperger syndrome) I think I'm even crazier than most, I be bought 9 Panasonic NV FS 100 (AG 4600) just to get one properly working, the video heads are garbage, the smd caps are garbage, leaking everywhere, the construction is garbage, but it looks awesome and the picture quality is one of the best I've seen on a vhs machine, the transcoder Secam-l to pal is amazing in quality, it is an awesome irritating piece of history.
@@12voltvids the most magic thing about an analog vcr is that it's a succession of small compromise that made a miracle. It's just a miracle that these thing are working as well as they are, and that engineer where able to come up with such Innovative mesmerising machines. I'm a sysadmin today and I'm not impressed by 0 or 1 digital number recorded on flash memory, there is no charm to this, no clicking, no spinning gears, no noise from the head drum, no joy. Just a perfectly calibrated amazingly good picture with details as good as reality. It's not just what I'm after.
I have the same camera as you, when I try the playback on the tv I don't see anything, black screen, but it records, I checked with a working camera, in camera mode I can see perfectly on the screen, I tried cleaning the head contacts and bridging caps but nothing, complete black screen i playback mode, I'm going crazy
Well done! I admire your patience for these low quality image critters, most of these cameras have died from the same cap disaster. Alas many other vintage electronic equipment still do it, some are still valuable... The smell of fried bad fish oil is a nasty smell you can't get rid of your bench and clothes and nostrils for a while. These videos are particularly interesting for those who admire the way Japanese folded boards "origami like" to miniaturize the then available high technology. And here again, Sony cameras were also known for a better serviceability. Anyway, many of these cameras were the nightmare of service stations, with numerous boards tied with multiple screws and fragile tape circuits, dust and sand sensitive optical parts, fragile loading mechanism...
Hi, thank you for the informative video. A quick question (based on your deep experience): I recently archived about 30 hours of family videos using my Sony CCD-TR66, purchased in 1997. It has worked well except for a flaky 'camera/playback' mode switch. Was I very lucky? Did I inadvertently condemn myself to tech failures in the future? I didn't even rewind the tapes to minimize usage. Thanks again!
It's astonishing how much this tech has been miniaturized. I have a Canon SX610 that has 18x optical zoom and HD video and it's smaller than a pack of cigarettes.
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 Sony FDR AX53. 20X zeiss zoom, 16mega pixel stills and 4k video @ 100mbits, optical steady shot with floating lens. They have a new one but they dropped the eye piece viewfinder, and they put in a lower 9 mega pixel sensor. The older AX33 has a 20.5 megapixel sensor, but only 10x lens, and the AX100 which I also have has a 12x zoom, 20.5 megapixel 1" sensor and large aperture lens. It wins in the video and still department. Shoots stills as well as my DSLR, as it has like a still life camera a mechanical shutter for still shots, and an OLED eyepiece so you see exactly what the picture or video is going to look like. Makes it my favorite, and biggest camera. The 53 goes with me traveling though as I can take rock steady handheld shots with the steady shot.
I have a sony handycam ccd-tr75e (which I think is the UK equivalent to this one) and I've replaced all the surface mounted capacitors on the camera board, VTR board and in the viewfinder but now when I turn it on in camera mode the picture glitches and cuts out, like the video processor is restarting all the time but it also happens in playback mode. Do you have any idea what's wrong?
There is a reason that I don't offer cap replacements for people's camcorders. When these caps leak the electrolyte is corrosive and it soaks into the multi-layer board and attacks the copper traces on internal wiring. What's the traces are damaged you will have all kinds of weird and possibly intermittent problems. I showed what one or two caps can do on cameras I own that I would never sell or even give away because I don't want to be married to them when you start changing capacitors and cameras you are opening Pandora's box sometimes it'll work many times it won't and other times it will work for a short time until something else acts up I would imagine that that's what's happened on yours is the damage to the board is causing other problems the only solution would be to replace the board and as you guessed boards are unobtainable.
@@12voltvids yeah, I thought that might be the problem, the caps under the little LCD had leaked through the board out on to the other side. I tried cleaning it with IPA and a toothbrush but I guess it's screwed. Thanks :)
Hi again, I’ve left the camera switched on all morning and it seems to be working now, no glitches, and the viewfinder seems to be nice and crisp. Even when I move it around there’s still no glitches, I’m wondering if the board wasn’t actually damaged or whatever caused the glitches has burnt out or if it’s just a fluke.
@@12voltvids ignore what I said earlier about it working perfectly, the camera section works alright now but when I try and load a tape the head spins up really fast and it spits the tape back out, the caution light also flashes. Do you think it’s the caps again?
Did it work on camera recording mode when u had got the camera assembled back together? Otherwise it looks like a new picture on playback mode too. I do have a 2004 Sony digital 8 camcorder which still works well 2day,,,mainly gets used as a cassette player,,,,for playing the old 8mm tapes from 28 years ago,,,,that was recorded from a Canon camcorder,,,which retired in the end with picture and sound and viewfinder troubles,,,some 10 years ago.
Excellent. As I had seen it,s a stereo camcorder too,,,from the connection lead to the tv. They were real awesome in stereo sound recording on an 8mm tape back then.
@@nickfrench7372 The way 8mm and hi8 did it was different than beta and VHS. VHS used 2 seperate heads so that was totally different. Closer to beta hi Fi. Same heads as video but beta used 4 carriers 2 for each head for left and right A field and left and right B field, plus the mono linear track. Incidentally 8 mm also featured a linear audio track that was never implemented it used an FM modulated carrier for a mono soundtrack when the stereo camcorders came out they couldn't just put two carriers as they did with beta for a carrier for the left and a carrier for the right because they would lose compatibility with the mono camcorders so they added a second carrier the original carrier had the left plus right audio as a mono soundtrack the second carrier had the left minus right audio just like with FM stereo thereby maintaining compatibility with existing mono camcorders a stereotype would play perfect on a mono camcorder and would play perfect in stereo on a stereo camcorder they also offered a dual language option so the main carrier could have mono sound and the second carrier could have an independent soundtrack and there's a switch on all stereo camcorders stereo position mono position and second audio little switch with Green dot for stereo and then one and a two for the two separate soundtracks. 8 mm and hi8 also featured a reserved area written out by the helical scan head that was reserved for a two-channel PCM 8-bit audio track that could be dubbed after the fact and where time could information could be written after the fact.
@@12voltvids Very interesting how the stereo recording format works for 8mm,,hi 8,,,but what format would it work at for my Sony digital 8mm stereo camcorder? As it plays other 8mm tapes recorded from it,,,along from other old standard hi 8mm camcorders too.
@@nickfrench7372 digital 8, it's completely different system I was referring to the analog 8mm and high 8. On both systems the audio is recorded as an AFM or audio FM carrier that is placed between the chroma and the luminance FM carrier. on analog 8 mm and hi8 there is an additional reserved area on the tape which was for optional digital stereo audio or PCM sound. this was possible because on a normal VCR the video track needs a 180° wrap of the Head drum so that one head is always in contact with the tape to record audio and video using FM modulation on 8 mm format the Head drum is in contact with the tape for 210°. 180° is used for the video portion and audio FM that additional 30° wrap where the tape is in contact with two heads at the same time is used for time code and PCM digital audio. the PCM digital audio can be dubbed after the fact without affecting the analog FM signals that are recorded along with the video. This is possible because of the overlap on the two heads at the end of the video track when the video signal is handed off to the next head to start the next field of recording the first head is still in contact with the tape and can write additional information for the PCM audio and or time code. Digital 8 on the other hand is a full digital system. it records PCM audio and video packets to the tape in exactly the same structure as DV or mini DV the difference is on a DVD Deck with its 6 mm tape the smaller Head drum spins at 9,000 RPM on digital 8 because the tape is wider and the Head drum is bigger they can get the same relative writing speed at 4500 RPM. because digital 8 uses the same size headroom and the same width of tape many digital 8 camcorders had the ability to play analog 8mm and high 8 tapes however newer and lower cost digital 8 camcorders had the analog playback circuits eliminated to cut costs. This is important to mention because someone looking to buy a digital 8 camcorder for playback of analog recordings may find themselves disappointed if they buy a model that only supports digital playback.
It's not worth fixing. Too baby caps are bad and the leakage will have damaged board. Fix it pay your money and then 3 weaos later something else breaks. Chuck it.
Two cap fix, someone will find it useful :-D I hate that sticky surface, it's on some laptops and it's horrible when old, reminds me of a heavy smokers coating of niccoteen, yuck :-( That kid sounds like he is having a farting contest with himself :)
@@michelebell6813 Manufacturers just dont think about how horrible the surfaces will become, the laptop i cleaned was a dell, my hands stuck to it, yuck yuck :-(
I use an analog camera for recording home videos, i love the old look that an analog camera gives to a picture.
You can get that same effect post. I just wouldn't be putting anything on video tape you plan on playing back down the road because these old mechanical recorders aren't going to run forever. I have always been an early adopter myself. I couldn't wait to say goodbye to video tape even though i have 2 full HD cameras that use tape, i don't use them.
@@12voltvidshow much to fix my same tr7 with the same issue..? And one more question are you affordable…?
@@Official916-m6r not worth fixing.
Very good video and repair! I remember I had a Canon hi8 bought in 2004 but it was much older. The camera itself was really nice and survived without problem all the way forward till 2015 when i sold it. I used metal particle tapes with very good image results. I sold it however in 2015 for 50 60 dollars.
I love your videos, like this one! It brings back memories, I used to work for sony in the 90$
I’m going to have to disagree with you but personally myself and a lot of others still use 8 mm and Hi8 and SVHS to record. I’m young and learning camcorder repair and managed to recap a TR81 now it fully works. I have boxes of parts units too for parts and 100s of new blank 8mm tapes. I wish the TR81 had manual zoom but it doesn’t. Now I’m trying to find a TR7 with the manual zoom control and gonna tackle on fully recapping it. People like me will stick with analog video tape for many more years to come. Being young I’m not going anywhere. Definitely not for another 40 years.
Once i started to change the leaky capacitors from a videocamera and ended having replace about thirty capacitors.More than the half were located around the CCD sensor.Somewhere around in year 2000 as i remeber,really nightmare and since then i never work with videocameras.
I did a ccdv5000 once. About 80 of those f-cking caps. Never again.
Excellent job done. I am copying all my tapes on to dvd as I don't know how much longer my camcorder will last.
Hello, I have the same video camera (it works fine) but the image in the viewfinder looks very dark, I can hardly see anything of the image that the camera is looking at, the numbers and the rest of the viewfinder look good but that is what is wrong, what can it be?
What was the effective line resolution in those old CCD camcorders?
Theis one was a regular 8mm video camera, so 8mm video recorded a picture slightly better than VHS. About 240 lines of horizontal resolution. Remember this is analog, not digital so if you try to think of it as computer resolution, about 320x480 interlace, ..
Hi8 did much better, 400 lines resolution 640x480 interlace. Aproximately, because analog has no pixels, it is a continuous waveform, limited by the bandwidth available.
@@12voltvids thank you for replying to me with such a concise yet comprehensive response. I really enjoyed pondering on it.
Interesting stuff. I have a tr55e that's putting out a good image on the viewfinder but the output is dreadful. Any bright parts come out as blocks of grey and it jitters. Does this sound like caps to you?
I have recap Sony ccd tr55 (1989) and my camera perfect works
Very good video. Working on getting my CCD-TR7 to work. Trying to figure out why it stops playing first. It plays for a few seconds then stops then the red caution light comes on. Any thoughts why. Have you trouble shot this problem?
I recently bought a Sony CCD-TRV608 Hi8 camera that, guess what? Im currently using for recording family videos. The thing's practically brand new, with even the original battery still taking a charge and lasting more than an hour. I've already recorded more than half a tape worth of footage, and I'm not planning to stop.
You would think I totally lost my mind, and I guess you're right. Who the heck would want to use such a delicate device to record life's precious moments in 2020? But I did, because this thing still has a lot left to give. Not only is it super low hour, but i also suspect it was produced at the very end of the 8mm format, meaning it didnt suffer from those nasty late 90s caps. Also, Im not stupid, I am going to transfer each tape to digital as soon as Im done with it. Wish me luck!
You'll need it!
I can't understand why anyone would want to use crapy analog video to record home videos on these days. Even just for the look you can soften a digital image to look just as bad as tape did and even throw in simulated drop outs. I dealt with tape for many years and I couldn't wait to abandon all tape even my HD tape formats. Recording to a file based format is so much better and easier to deal with and no farting around capturing the tape. Plug the memory card into computer and drag files to hard drive.
@@12voltvids I'm actually after the whole nostalgia it gives me. My dad made a ton of tapes (42 in total) with the two 8mm cameras he had over the years, and there's just a lot about this thing that instantly reminds me of my childhood; the beeps, the soft video quality, the date text, the sounds of the mechanism and the amazing zoom lens, everything. It's just a shame that they never really caught on in my country, and the few that remained are dead by now. Plus, aside from the official sony shops back in the day, there's absolutely no one capable of repairing the darn things, so a lot ended up in the trash. Feel sorry for whoever had his memories only on this format.
@@enzoperruccio
I still have hundreds of tapes but most are commercial shoots i did years ago.
@@12voltvids maybe it's because you work with it for so long, I've never been impressed by digital solid state technology, but tiny precision mechanism, I love it, even the noise they made are all different between manufacturer. (Maybe because I got asperger syndrome) I think I'm even crazier than most, I be bought 9 Panasonic NV FS 100 (AG 4600) just to get one properly working, the video heads are garbage, the smd caps are garbage, leaking everywhere, the construction is garbage, but it looks awesome and the picture quality is one of the best I've seen on a vhs machine, the transcoder Secam-l to pal is amazing in quality, it is an awesome irritating piece of history.
@@12voltvids the most magic thing about an analog vcr is that it's a succession of small compromise that made a miracle. It's just a miracle that these thing are working as well as they are, and that engineer where able to come up with such Innovative mesmerising machines. I'm a sysadmin today and I'm not impressed by 0 or 1 digital number recorded on flash memory, there is no charm to this, no clicking, no spinning gears, no noise from the head drum, no joy. Just a perfectly calibrated amazingly good picture with details as good as reality. It's not just what I'm after.
does that have any regular transistors?
Yes there are transistors in there as well as ICs
I have the same camera as you, when I try the playback on the tv I don't see anything, black screen, but it records, I checked with a working camera, in camera mode I can see perfectly on the screen, I tried cleaning the head contacts and bridging caps but nothing, complete black screen i playback mode, I'm going crazy
Well done! I admire your patience for these low quality image critters, most of these cameras have died from the same cap disaster. Alas many other vintage electronic equipment still do it, some are still valuable... The smell of fried bad fish oil is a nasty smell you can't get rid of your bench and clothes and nostrils for a while. These videos are particularly interesting for those who admire the way Japanese folded boards "origami like" to miniaturize the then available high technology. And here again, Sony cameras were also known for a better serviceability. Anyway, many of these cameras were the nightmare of service stations, with numerous boards tied with multiple screws and fragile tape circuits, dust and sand sensitive optical parts, fragile loading mechanism...
Hi, thank you for the informative video. A quick question (based on your deep experience): I recently archived about 30 hours of family videos using my Sony CCD-TR66, purchased in 1997. It has worked well except for a flaky 'camera/playback' mode switch. Was I very lucky? Did I inadvertently condemn myself to tech failures in the future? I didn't even rewind the tapes to minimize usage. Thanks again!
I have 3 video8 camcorders how much to fix all 3?
No guarantee that any 8mm camera can be fixed. Some can,, many can't.
It's astonishing how much this tech has been miniaturized. I have a Canon SX610 that has 18x optical zoom and HD video and it's smaller than a pack of cigarettes.
I have a 4K camera the size of a phone. It is a phone, and computer too!
@@12voltvids Well played. But it doesn't have 18x optical zoom! : )
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017
My Sony has a 20x optical zoom, and records 4K video.
@@12voltvids Ok man. You win. Nevermind.
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 Sony FDR AX53. 20X zeiss zoom, 16mega pixel stills and 4k video @ 100mbits, optical steady shot with floating lens. They have a new one but they dropped the eye piece viewfinder, and they put in a lower 9 mega pixel sensor.
The older AX33 has a 20.5 megapixel sensor, but only 10x lens, and the AX100 which I also have has a 12x zoom, 20.5 megapixel 1" sensor and large aperture lens. It wins in the video and still department. Shoots stills as well as my DSLR, as it has like a still life camera a mechanical shutter for still shots, and an OLED eyepiece so you see exactly what the picture or video is going to look like. Makes it my favorite, and biggest camera. The 53 goes with me traveling though as I can take rock steady handheld shots with the steady shot.
I have a sony handycam ccd-tr75e (which I think is the UK equivalent to this one) and I've replaced all the surface mounted capacitors on the camera board, VTR board and in the viewfinder but now when I turn it on in camera mode the picture glitches and cuts out, like the video processor is restarting all the time but it also happens in playback mode. Do you have any idea what's wrong?
There is a reason that I don't offer cap replacements for people's camcorders. When these caps leak the electrolyte is corrosive and it soaks into the multi-layer board and attacks the copper traces on internal wiring. What's the traces are damaged you will have all kinds of weird and possibly intermittent problems. I showed what one or two caps can do on cameras I own that I would never sell or even give away because I don't want to be married to them when you start changing capacitors and cameras you are opening Pandora's box sometimes it'll work many times it won't and other times it will work for a short time until something else acts up I would imagine that that's what's happened on yours is the damage to the board is causing other problems the only solution would be to replace the board and as you guessed boards are unobtainable.
@@12voltvids yeah, I thought that might be the problem, the caps under the little LCD had leaked through the board out on to the other side. I tried cleaning it with IPA and a toothbrush but I guess it's screwed. Thanks :)
Hi again, I’ve left the camera switched on all morning and it seems to be working now, no glitches, and the viewfinder seems to be nice and crisp. Even when I move it around there’s still no glitches, I’m wondering if the board wasn’t actually damaged or whatever caused the glitches has burnt out or if it’s just a fluke.
@@12voltvids ignore what I said earlier about it working perfectly, the camera section works alright now but when I try and load a tape the head spins up really fast and it spits the tape back out, the caution light also flashes. Do you think it’s the caps again?
@@callumthomas6152 it's the caps leaking and likely damaged the board.
Did it work on camera recording mode when u had got the camera assembled back together?
Otherwise it looks like a new picture on playback mode too.
I do have a 2004 Sony digital 8 camcorder which still works well 2day,,,mainly gets used as a cassette player,,,,for playing the old 8mm tapes from 28 years ago,,,,that was recorded from a Canon camcorder,,,which retired in the end with picture and sound and viewfinder troubles,,,some 10 years ago.
Yes it records fine.
Excellent. As I had seen it,s a stereo camcorder too,,,from the connection lead to the tv. They were real awesome in stereo sound recording on an 8mm tape back then.
@@nickfrench7372
The way 8mm and hi8 did it was different than beta and VHS. VHS used 2 seperate heads so that was totally different. Closer to beta hi Fi.
Same heads as video but beta used 4 carriers 2 for each head for left and right A field and left and right B field, plus the mono linear track.
Incidentally 8 mm also featured a linear audio track that was never implemented it used an FM modulated carrier for a mono soundtrack when the stereo camcorders came out they couldn't just put two carriers as they did with beta for a carrier for the left and a carrier for the right because they would lose compatibility with the mono camcorders so they added a second carrier the original carrier had the left plus right audio as a mono soundtrack the second carrier had the left minus right audio just like with FM stereo thereby maintaining compatibility with existing mono camcorders a stereotype would play perfect on a mono camcorder and would play perfect in stereo on a stereo camcorder they also offered a dual language option so the main carrier could have mono sound and the second carrier could have an independent soundtrack and there's a switch on all stereo camcorders stereo position mono position and second audio little switch with Green dot for stereo and then one and a two for the two separate soundtracks. 8 mm and hi8 also featured a reserved area written out by the helical scan head that was reserved for a two-channel PCM 8-bit audio track that could be dubbed after the fact and where time could information could be written after the fact.
@@12voltvids Very interesting how the stereo recording format works for 8mm,,hi 8,,,but what format would it work at for my Sony digital 8mm stereo camcorder? As it plays other 8mm tapes recorded from it,,,along from other old standard hi 8mm camcorders too.
@@nickfrench7372 digital 8, it's completely different system I was referring to the analog 8mm and high 8. On both systems the audio is recorded as an AFM or audio FM carrier that is placed between the chroma and the luminance FM carrier. on analog 8 mm and hi8 there is an additional reserved area on the tape which was for optional digital stereo audio or PCM sound. this was possible because on a normal VCR the video track needs a 180° wrap of the Head drum so that one head is always in contact with the tape to record audio and video using FM modulation on 8 mm format the Head drum is in contact with the tape for 210°. 180° is used for the video portion and audio FM that additional 30° wrap where the tape is in contact with two heads at the same time is used for time code and PCM digital audio. the PCM digital audio can be dubbed after the fact without affecting the analog FM signals that are recorded along with the video. This is possible because of the overlap on the two heads at the end of the video track when the video signal is handed off to the next head to start the next field of recording the first head is still in contact with the tape and can write additional information for the PCM audio and or time code. Digital 8 on the other hand is a full digital system. it records PCM audio and video packets to the tape in exactly the same structure as DV or mini DV the difference is on a DVD Deck with its 6 mm tape the smaller Head drum spins at 9,000 RPM on digital 8 because the tape is wider and the Head drum is bigger they can get the same relative writing speed at 4500 RPM. because digital 8 uses the same size headroom and the same width of tape many digital 8 camcorders had the ability to play analog 8mm and high 8 tapes however newer and lower cost digital 8 camcorders had the analog playback circuits eliminated to cut costs. This is important to mention because someone looking to buy a digital 8 camcorder for playback of analog recordings may find themselves disappointed if they buy a model that only supports digital playback.
0:54 that's fast hand movement; some would say you're an Urban Operator😁.
Did you give it away / sold it or is it still available ? I’ve been looking for a working TR-7
I have Sony Tr7 if u are still interested!
@@hanadu3032 thanks but I already have a fully recapped serviced one now. I just need a V701/801 now.
Third time is a charm!
I read that the electrolyte has a Pyridine based compound. That will explain why it smells fishy.
VideoMem that explains why a camcorder I found smelled fishy, I thought it got dropped in the ocean
How do I contact you about fixing my same tr7?….and also one more question..are you affordable…? @12voltvids
It's not worth fixing. Too baby caps are bad and the leakage will have damaged board. Fix it pay your money and then 3 weaos later something else breaks. Chuck it.
Thanks for Vedio
The most annoying musical instrument in the wrong hands is a drum set.
👍👍👍
Two cap fix, someone will find it useful :-D
I hate that sticky surface, it's on some laptops and it's horrible when old, reminds me of a heavy smokers coating of niccoteen, yuck :-(
That kid sounds like he is having a farting contest with himself :)
Mine was sticky too. I wiped it down with a damp alcohol pad and it’s like new now.
@@michelebell6813 Manufacturers just dont think about how horrible the surfaces will become, the laptop i cleaned was a dell, my hands stuck to it, yuck yuck :-(
Good good good