20 Most Recent Sony DCR-TRV50E Mini DV Digital Camcorder Questions & Answers

You may download the Sony USB driver from http://www.sony.co.uk/support/en/product/DCR-TRV50E/updates

You may download the Sony USB driver from http://www.sony.co.uk/support/en/product/DCR-TRV50E/updates

You will have to connect with a firewire cable and use Windows Movie Maker. WMM is standard kit on most later model PCs.

Hi,
Same ccd imager is used in DCR-TRV40/50 and TRV40E/50E
I gave you part number from service manual because I'm Sony camera tech, first page of service manual is shown below.
Hope this info will help you.
Thanks.

Hi,
I can provide you ccd imager part number, let me know exact model number of your Sony camcorder.
Is it DCR-TRV50E or any other model. Last letter E shows its PAL camcorder.
Thanks.

there are many post on various sites that state the same as you ihave the same prob with a sony which i paid £999,00 for and it wont connect i have been researching this problem for months on and of and cannot get any further, what may help you is some information that i have discovered , there are diffrent vers of firwire difrent baud rates this could be one reason for non detection ms sp1 has a diffrent ver to sp2 it is not easy to reinstall sp1 1394 as you need to diable cabbinet files to stop the reloading of the deleted sp2 speed 1394,ther are a few hotfixes avilable from ms on xp not suer about vista also if you plug a faster 1394 device into your machine it could diasble the slower ones , and now for the the killer any manufactur that incorporates 1394 in ther package has to purchase an extremly expensive license and microsoft are heavy into the development of usb stuf and are not concentrating on 1394 hence very little or no support, the only thing you could try is download virtual pc free from ms download site and install the op sys that pertains to the age of the cam good luck

try connecting the camcorder to a pc using the cable, sometimes a pc can fix the drive. or you will need to do a factory reset. press in the rest button next to the lcd screen for 3 seconds.