Camcorder I have a camcorder that is showing these blue lines across the screen when i play the tape can someone please help me with this I do not have the money to replace it or fix it and if i can do it myself that would be great. Any help would be wonderful thank you for your time

This is most likely caused by a damaged or misaligned video drum and can usually be repaired fairly inexpensively. However, it's not a user serviceable problem and will need to be repaired by a qualified service technician.

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try a cleaning tape for 5-6 sec

yes change the tape and also use a head cleaning cassette to clean the cam. chaminda from Sri Lanka

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it seems that some parts in your Cam are Dirty.
please try to use the head cleaner disk first.
let me know if any changes happen.

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Someone here recommended on another post to put the lense cap on & videotape the blackness in a quiet room for 5-10 mins. I tried this as a last resort & it worked. When I played back the tape, no more skipping or gray lines. I had 4-5 SOLID gray lines with skipping video & audio in between on every tape I put in. I think the person who helped me solve this said that it was a result of the tape alignment going off.

A Q-tip should never be used to clean a video head.  Unfortunately they can pull the tiny head out of alignment.  I believe this is your problem and the repaid may be more costly than a new purchase.

There you go. Thats a good way to get the problem solved.

Happened to me as well, banged the lens a few times and it started working again :-)

Someone here recommended on another post to put the lense cap on & videotape the blackness in a quiet room for 5-10 mins. I tried this as a last resort & it worked. When I played back the tape, no more skipping or gray lines. I had 4-5 SOLID gray lines with skipping video & audio in between on every tape I put in. I think the person who helped me solve this said that it was a result of the tape alignment going off. My camera is a Canon zr80 digital camcorder. (Called Canon, they had me reset it & then recommended sending it in).

I have the same problem with my Panasonic and have not taken it in yet; however, understand that its a simple fix of running a cleaning tape through it.... Ill try this...