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Originally Posted by Electronic M
The line sounds like horizontal deflection failure. Is there a full picture when playing a tape? If so then it is camera section failure instead of the viewfinder.
I think the playback issues are probably failed electrolytic capacitors, though a dirty linear track sound/control track tape head could be the problem.
As a general rule it is bad to let an electronic device go unused for more than 3 months. Electrolytic capacitors need to have voltage across them periodically to keep them from going bad... Tape on the other hand lasts forever unless you store it under horrendous conditions. I have Umatic video tapes from the early 70's that still play just fine, and audio tapes older than the 60's that still sound as good as ever....Hell, with the way DVD-R and some pre-recorded discs die of old age, the tapes may out live the digital copies you make of them....
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When I playback a tape and look through the viewfinder to watch it, the background is still black with the white vertical line in the center of the screen and, as such, no picture. The line waves slightly when the tape is moving or in pause mode and the line is non-waving when I press "Stop" on the controls. The tape content can be viewed by connecting the camera to a tv via the auxiliary ports and using a Y-R-W RCA cable. I suppose at some point I need to find a person or place to play back a tape and see what it looks like on a known, good device. That may help isolate whether it's the camera or the tape (or both), right?