Thank you Jonathan Rosenberg for the wonderful suggestion to press on the contacts. It cleared my condensation flasher and allowed the panasonic to resume working.

Now, however when I play recorded DV tapes I get bars of mosaic and bars of clear images interlaced on all tapes, and when I play the tapes directly to my ULead video editing software Does anyone have any ideas why this is happening and what I can do about it? :mad2:

Thank you for any help anyone can offer.

Best regards

Robert Brown
Belgium