On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 16:03:43 GMT, d_ruether@hotmail.com (Neuman - Ruether) wrote:

>On 27 Mar 2002 04:08:51 GMT, revdonaldo@aol.com (Revdonaldo)
>wrote:
>
>>My JVC recorded DV tapes won't play in my Sony VX 1000. Neither will DV tapes
>>recorded on the Canon XL-1. Can't figure this out. I thought DV was a
>>standard format and would play on any DV deck or in any DV camera. What's
>>up???
>>Revdonaldo@aol.com

>Were they recorded in LP mode? The VX1000 does not
>have this mode, as I recall... Also, within Sony,
>I have found complete compatibility, even with
>LP-mode tapes (except for the VX1000) among all
>13 or so I have owned (including one head/transport
>replacement repair). I've heard other brands do
>not maintain this kind of alignment accuracy, and
>that may be the problem (these tapes are SMALL,
>and the alignment requirement standards for
>compatibility are high...).

"M76", below (in a detached thread), probably
has the best answer - it is likely a problem
with mixing tape brands. As an aside, when I
did the shooting for the reviews at:
www.David-Ruether-Photography.com/camcorder-comparison.htm,
I shot the same tape in many different models
of several brands of Mini-DV camcorders, and
played them all back from one, without problems
(most of them were nearly new, and all had been
used only with Sony tape).