Sony EVC 100 HI8 VCR

[Robert Kilgore]

I recently purchased a Sony EVC 100 HI8 VCR and notice that when I rewind
the tape to the beginning the tape counter always indicates a different
number. This seems to occur regardless of whether I forward a few seconds
and then rewind or play the tape for a while and then rewind. Is this
normal? Can anyone tell me why this is happening. It happens on all my
tapes (different brands, new, etc.).

[Ken Sargent]

In article <rkilgo...@hup.ucla.edu>,

I, too, have noticed this problem. I was using the EVC-100 as the source deck
in my Video Director setup and the accuracy was less than acceptable.

Fortunately, I got my 801 back from Sony and surprizingly all fixed, so now
I use the 100 as the record deck and the counter doesn't matter.

I'll be talking to the tech @ sony either today or tommorrow and I'll see if
he knows of this counter problem.

Other than that, the 100 is a nice deck for what it does...

Ken - sar...@westford.ccur.com
(508)392-2982

[Don Campbell]

In article <abrohams-0...@f181-149.net.wisc.edu> abro...@facstaff.wisc.edu (Tim Onosko) writes:
>From: abro...@facstaff.wisc.edu (Tim Onosko)
>Subject: Re: Sony EVC 100 HI8 VCR
>Date: Fri, 08 Apr 1994 19:04:52 -0600

>In article <rkilgo...@hup.ucla.edu>, rkil...@hup.ucla.edu (Robert
>Kilgore) wrote:

>Both of you have found the secret design flaw in this otherwise excellent
>deck. The techs at Portland's Camera World told me that this is an
>engineering problem, Sony knows about it and (since I spoke with CW last
>summer) apparently nothing has been done about it. This problem renders
>the deck useless for editing when used as the "master deck" in a LANC
>editing configuration, too, in case you were wondering. Another Sony
>flub...

>-- Tim Onosko

OK, so what reasonably priced (admittedly in the eye or pocketbook of the
beholder) Hi8 deck would be good as an edit master in a LANC config??

Don Campbell

[Tim Onosko]

In article <rkilgo...@hup.ucla.edu>, rkil...@hup.ucla.edu (Robert
Kilgore) wrote:

Both of you have found the secret design flaw in this otherwise excellent

[JEFF KILLEEN]

This isn't a design flaw - a design is something the deck should do but
doesn't. All my decks that are not time code decks have this problem. This
includes my SHVS as well as my 8mm/Hi8mm decks. The difference can be from
5-15 seconds to minutes. In general my 8mm decks seem to be the worse.
However the bottom line is if you want frame accurate editing you want a time
code deck like the CVD-1000.

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