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Know anything about Sony Handycam TRV260? NEED HELP PLEASE!!!?

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I have a Sony Handycam DCR-TRV260 that I bought almost 4 years ago. It worked great for about 2.5 years. Then it just stopped working. Okay, here's the problem with it.

It will record but what it is recording is just black. When you look through the view finder it's black, too. It still records the voices, just NO picture! We haven't gotten it out since it stopped working on Christmas of 2006. It actually stopped working while we were recording the kids opening their presents. It has been in the case in my closet since then.

But I am having another baby really soon and would really like to have this thing working. I don't have the money to buy a new one.

Does anyone know what could be the cause? Or does anyone have enough knowledge on these to walk me through fixing it? I would really appreciate any tips or suggestions! And please don't tell me to take it and have it repaired. I am a stay at home mom and cannot afford that at the moment. Thank you in advance!

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  1. Well, at home mom.....

    bad news...

    That sounds like broken optical sensor and you cannot fix it. Actually, I do not even recommend to have it fixed, because the repair (by my own experience with broken Cannon camcorder) would be equal if not more expensive than the new one.

    So, I would recommend to go on e-bay and buy a new/used one. There is lot of them for quite reasonable (=cheap) prices (if you lucky enough during the auction).

    Here you have two examples to start with:

    http://cgi.ebay.ca/Canon-ZR100-MiniDV-Vi...

    http://cgi.ebay.ca/JVC-GR-D250U-MiniDV-D...

    But there are many - make your choice of brand and media and price...

    (I did buy actually 2 camcorders of eBay, I'm happy with them)

    Good luck... johnny

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