Hi my friend has a sony ccd v5000 that was fixed by sony shortly after the camera was bought, the camera later developed the same problem. Unfortunately he did not fix it when parts were available and now he was told that it cant be fixed due to lack of parts and the age of this item (THE CAMERA HOWEVER IS STILL In MINT CONDITION). The problem seams to me to be a defective electronic board that causes the picture to seam as if it is not tracking correctly, not sure if it is the actual alinement of the drum, but i think not. because from what i was told the camera began to show tracking distortion without the tape running and or when using some of the digital effects. It is shameful that in my experience also with sony consumer product that they all seam to be apparently designed to fail. I personally have dumped no less then a dozen low end consumer sony product due to failure with the last 10 year before STOPPING to by any sony products. SONY SHOULD BE DECENT COMPANY TO ADMIT THIS CAMERA HAD FAULY BOARDS AND REPLACE THEM, his repair bill at the time was over 180 USD and the camera failed again within the year. Can you please fix this camera and about how much will it cost, he has many Hi8 tapes he wants to transfer to dvd. anyone that can help please email me at: nyc.press@yahoo.com

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