Dirty heads?

4 Jun 2005 6:50 AM

Tom

Hi all, I have a sony TRV-340E that has been working fine, I put in an older
tape that I havn't viewed in a while and all I got was a blue screen, on
rewinding a bit it cleared and played normal.

Today I tried same tape and can only get blue screen and no sound, and if I
stick in my current tape it plays but with 3 gray bands across the screen.

What does this sound like?

Thanks
Tom

4 Jun 2005 11:12 AM

Laurence Payne

On Sat, 4 Jun 2005 14:50:56 +0800, "Tom" <eek@myaddress> wrote:

>Hi all, I have a sony TRV-340E that has been working fine, I put in an older
>tape that I havn't viewed in a while and all I got was a blue screen, on
>rewinding a bit it cleared and played normal.
>
>Today I tried same tape and can only get blue screen and no sound, and if I
>stick in my current tape it plays but with 3 gray bands across the screen.
>
>What does this sound like?

I don't know. You've only mentioned the video. What DOES it sound
like? :)

But, yes, cleaning the heads would seem to be a no-brainer :-)

5 Jun 2005 6:02 AM

Martin van derPoel

Dirty or damaged Video Head.

Try to clean it.

I had this happen a couple of times on a TRV520.

Martin

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"Tom" <eek@myaddress> wrote in message news:42a14fea@quokka.wn.com.au...
> Hi all, I have a sony TRV-340E that has been working fine, I put in an
> older tape that I havn't viewed in a while and all I got was a blue
> screen, on rewinding a bit it cleared and played normal.
>
> Today I tried same tape and can only get blue screen and no sound, and if
> I stick in my current tape it plays but with 3 gray bands across the
> screen.
>
> What does this sound like?
>
> Thanks
> Tom
>