Find someone witha SOny DSR-2000 deck. It has a special circuitry that will play tapes that do not play in anything else.
This is really a strange situation and have never heard of something like this, except, a local film school got a JVC HG-100 HDV camera and lost an entire day of footage because the M-PEG encoder jammed and quit recording. To fix it, you have to power down the camera for a few minutes and fire it back up.
A suggestion for you and everyone else: When you are shooting something critical, hit the “rec check” buttor once in awhile to make sure you’re putting something to tape. We’ve all been stung by bad tapes, clogged heads and other problems.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!