[Herb Fellows]

I have a sony camcorder, trv-19. It plays and records on new tapes without a problem. However, on some old tapes, it will only play. I get the ‘dirty tape’ mmessage when I try to record.
First, if the tape is dirty, why would it play but not record? Dirty is dirty, no matter what you’re trying to do, right?
These ‘problem’ tapes are under 3 years old, and have only been recorded on once. If I knew these tapes were essntially disposable, I would not have bought this format for a camcorder, this can get really expensive. I have one $15 sony memory tape, used once, now reads ‘dirty tape’. That really sucks!