Lines on video when playing back a recorded tape

Try a head cleaning cartridge.

This smacks of the same problem that the old VCR's used to have. One of you are out of sync. The tape records on a portion of the tape in a sort of straight line track. Think of it as your track is down 1/16" from the top. The other camera tracks it's video down 1/8" instead. That's why in playback it can't read it. The only cure is a realignment. Nimsgame

Ur video head is dirty.Must have a head cleannig video tape run it the tape will tell u the head is clean.U can buy it in amazon.com or ebay.com the best brand it Scoth VCR cleanning head video tape.Must buy from the web.Video head cleannig tape don't sell any more in retails stores.

It could need a head adjustment. Any camera store can do that for you.

Its symptoms of dirty / clogged video head. Please use Sony video head cleaning tape to clean video head.

Please use Mini DV Video head cleaning cassette as it seems video head is dirty / clogged in camera.

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

You try it with proper connection using a new or working wire if you have used a vcr to play back.
Play the tape with any other camera.Bcoz your monitor may be fault.
Play the head cleaning tape in the camera, and try


May be the recording head of your camera is clogged

I had the problem of the horizontal grey lines with some pixels of pink. I ran the dry head cleaner a few times and the lines became solid grey with the sound now skipping worse than before. I cried, cleaned again, then played the tape. I did this about 4 times and still had no luck.

I then decided to try to record with a new tape around the room to see what would happen. After recording I played the tape back and it worked perfectly. I then went back the old tape that would not play properly and it worked fine! Seems like when I used the record button after cleaning it a few times everything worked fine, wierd.

Hope this might help someone.

clean the heads - the '5 stripes' are the symptom of dirty heads.