Sony vx2100...blue playback screen

If you have used a dry cleaning tape repeatedly, you have to understand how that type of cleaning tape works. Dry cleaners are often called "burnishers" and they work by polishing the tiny tips of the video head and removing small amounts of material to open the microscopic gap that is in the head. That gap is necessary to read the magnetic information off the tape. When the gap gets filled with oxide from the tape, you get a clogged video head and it doesn't read the information off the tape anymore. By using a dry tape repeatedly, you have likely polished the tips down till they are completely worn out. When the microscopic gap is polished past a certain point, it will widen and no longer read the information. The gap is precision machined because a certain sized gap is needed to read the information. too much either way (too wide or too narrow) and it ceases to work. Bottom line, you'll need the drum, which is the cylinder that spins with the tiny tips attached, replaced. Not a job for a consumer, you'l;l need a tech to do if for you. Sorry.

If you have used a dry cleaning tape repeatedly, you have to understand how that type of cleaning tape works. Dry cleaners are often called "burnishers" and they work by polishing the tiny tips of the video head and removing small amounts of material to open the microscopic gap that is in the head. That gap is necessary to read the magnetic information off the tape. When the gap gets filled with oxide from the tape, you get a clogged video head and it doesn't read the information off the tape anymore. By using a dry tape repeatedly, you have likely polished the tips down till they are completely worn out. When the microscopic gap is polished past a certain point, it will widen and no longer read the information. The gap is precision machined because a certain sized gap is needed to read the information. too much either way (too wide or too narrow) and it ceases to work. Bottom line, you'll need the drum, which is the cylinder that spins with the tiny tips attached, replaced. Not a job for a consumer, you'l;l need a tech to do if for you. Sorry.

this is very, very likely to happen. Mysony 120 camcorder used to work great for years, but after leaving it with a tape loaded for a year in the drawers the oxide most likely filled the gaps by magnetic field .Switching it on made the head turn filling up the gaps. Resulting in expensive gapfiller and bad reading ...sniff..wonder what the microscope will show :) this is very, very likely to happen. Mysony 120 camcorder used to work great for years, but after leaving it with a tape loaded for a year in the drawers the oxide most likely filled the gaps by magnetic field .Switching it on made the head turn filling up the gaps. Resulting in expensive gapfiller and bad reading ...sniff..wonder what the microscope will show :)