Smacking it a couple of times must have set it loose. too much friction somewhere or a gear stuck. I did think it was more of a mechanical issue rather than the electronics. Tried Debbie's suggestion to smack it and it worked. did everything recommended by Sony to no avail. I have beat my cam tvr18e to death and it did not work forr me Seems as if Sony wanna carry this tradition into the year 2000, and beyond! This old trick used to work with 'ye olde televisions. Some methods seem to follow from generation, to generation. The smacking theory seems to be the thing that works. NO doubt it's a design fault, which will cost you an arm & a leg to get repaired. Sony have a habit of not giving any secerts away. I have joined the smack the camcorder club and agree it works! Before you pay someone else to do this try it yourself. I have joined the "club" with a DCR-PC120BT but I'm going to experiment more with different tapes before I start playing whack-a-mole with it. So what's up with this code? I'm weary of whacking a $500 camera ala Fonzi. I think Sony jacked something up on this model! It is good to know I am not the only one that has a faulty camcorder! I tried Sony cutomer service and they told me to go get it serviced.
#Sony dcr trv80 drivers for mac manual#
The same error message was given to me and I tried the whole owners manual "fix" which didn't work. I have the same Camcoder DCR-trv250 also. i tried cleaning it but still nothing would get this error out, but i tried what Debbie said to do "smacking the side of the camera relatively hard with the palm of your hand" and it worked. I just turned the camcorder on its side and hit rewind. You may need to do this a couple of times. Try smacking the side of the camera relatively hard with the palm of your hand. I found this on another discussion forum. This may seem silly, but it worked for me.
#Sony dcr trv80 drivers for mac code#
I have never had the code when I pick it up and go directly to record mode? I dunno. I don't know what the heck it is but is seems to come up when I don't use it for a while then I try to go immedeatly to the VCR function. I get paranoid now every time I put a tape in waiting for the beep beep noise. It only happened on one tape (mostly) and there was no way this tape would play. If your camcorder still shows the same error code, then you'll have to send in your camcorder for service.