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Anonymous Posted on Apr 15, 2013

My camera gives the following error on tape playback "incorrect tape specification playback is restricted"

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SOURCE: Horizontal grey lines on tape playback

please state the age of your devices. It can help a great lot in solving your problems. The lines that you get aren't continuous, are they? They appear to be going up and down, are different sizes and shift as the tape plays, yes? well, this is simple. You need to clean your recording head.

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  • Posted on Dec 11, 2009

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Canon ZR950 is an older Standard Definition camera that records in DV format, and does not recognize HDV format recorded by HV30.

HV30 can be switched to DV format, which should be playable on ZR950.

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  • Posted on May 03, 2011

SOURCE: cannot playback a mini dv

Hello!

Looking into your problem, I've found the next advise:
You need to set the playback to be either HD or SD depending on the clip. Mixing them on the same tape is never a good idea, but setting the option to match the video format should resolve this.

On the trubleshooting section of the Instruction Manual it states that this error occurs "when the playback standard is already set in the camcorder, you attempted to play back a tape in a video standard different from that set".

To change the video standard (Playback STD), please refer to pg. 95 on the manual.
Note that the FireWire should be disconnected when accessing the settings!

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