My jvc grd37u camcorder suddenly lost all audio. My old tapes wont even play the audio, just the video. I left it out in my truck over night and came across this next time i used it. Im guessing it is my speaker but how can this happen over night? It didnt get wet or anything. Maybe a little bit of heat was exposed. Any good/cheap places i could take it to get it repaired?

SOURCE: camcorder says lens cap is on when its not

the possible problem is the ccd image sensor....log on to the jvc costumer service may be the model of your camera is one of the recall product...due to the production error of the imager...

SOURCE: Problems with playback of HI8 tapes...

What's happening is that the tape in the cassette is being chewed on one side by the camera's tape transporting mechanism during playback, hence the distorted image and sound. The mechanism might be damaged (misalignment) or just dirty. Try not to play other tapes on this unit because they will become permanently damaged. The best way is to find another camcorder (if cleaning does not help). Note that some old cassettes of long recording time will exhibit this behavior more often because of thinner tape used.

Mitch Davis

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• Posted on Mar 26, 2010

SOURCE: Pink lines when i play back my tapes on my canon zr500

Hopefull your not going through the tv and then to your dvd recorder
transfer should go straight from your camera to the dvd recorder.
you may also want to but a head cleaner for a mini dv camcorder,run it twice and try recoding again.If that doesnt work,you may have a problem with the heads inside of the camera.If thats the case,it would need to go to canon or an authorized service center.