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My Panasonic pv-gs180 doesn't record.

My Panasonic pv-gs180 had a tape stuck in it. I got the tape out but the camera doesn't record or play back anything on the tape. When trying to record, I have a picture in the viewfinder and the time code on the camera counts up but when I look at what I recorded, nothing comes up. The camera is not actually recording anything because I looked at the tape in a different camera and there wasn't anything on it. It seems like the camera is functioning properly except there is some kind of disonnect when the images are imprinted on the minidv tape.

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