Buy a transfer program their cheap and you can edit and also burn to disc or onto other portable media
SOURCE: "reinsert the cassettee" error in Sony HandyCam CCD-TRV 438E.
The camcorder most likely is not detecting the tape, you have a bad sensor and these sensors all come on a flex type board and the flex board is mounted on the chassis surface. This will mean that the entire mechanism will meed to be diassembled, and is a very big and costly job. My opinion is that this repair will run you abut 250 to 300 bucks and this camcorder is not worth this as new camcorders are under 200 bucks. Good Luck
SOURCE: Sony Handycam CCD-F77 won't power up
Sony F77's are known for bad power supply circuit boards. I have one that powers up enough to eject or insert a tape but will do nothing else. Recently I took it to a repair shop. Paid $30 to have it diagnosed but elected not to pay the extra $164-$215 to have the board rebuilt.
It is difficult to find people who will even diagnose these old camcorders, but the repairman said the shops that rebuild the boards get 10-15 a week because people really like the high quality of this particular model. I paid over $1500 for mine in 1983 or so and may yet decide to have it rebuilt.
The repair shop I took mine to is Westronix in Salem, Oregon.
SOURCE: Sony Handycam CCD-TR55E Service manual Required.
I have owned a Sony CCD-TR55E since 1993. It developed exactly the sameproblems as you described around 2000 and it had to go into a worhshopfor repaired. After dismantling it was dicovered that the guide poleswere jamming during the threading process. To cure this problem thesliding deck mechanism was removed and the guide poles re-aligned andaffixed to their driving arms and then reassembled. The cost of was £65in 2000. The repair was carried out by a Sony franchised Dealer.
After hours of laborious searching, I have found a link for a free download of a user manual for a CCD-TR55.
http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/model-find.pl?mdl=CCD-TR55
Copy and Paste this link into your browser
GOOD LUCK TO ALL WHO FIND THIS USEFULL.
SOURCE: Sony Handycam CCD-TR64 cassette door won't close
Common problem with this mechanism. In order to fix the problem you will have to replace part called CHASSIS LS. Expensive repair, probably not worth the effort.
Testimonial: "Thanks. We ended up getting a new camcorder. That Handycam was as old as I am (18 years), so it was time for an upgrade anyway."
SOURCE: handycam won't play tape
i have thi problem to it is the x700 sony one :/
let me know if you have sorted the problem and tell me the soluvtion as i haven't yet :/
thankyou
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