so here's one that has me scratching my head. The camera I shoot most of my footage with is a Sony HVR A1U and it has, note "has" been a real work horse for me in the past. But, twice since September 09 I've had it in the shop for work related to a drum-head issue. Now, I was left scrambing the other day and had to reuse a tape (JVC) for last-minute gig. I went to play it back and found all sorts of drop outs and freeze frames, dip to blue etc. just like the bad old days when the drum-head was acting up. Crap, I thought. But, when I played the same tape back in my little Cannon Vixia HV40 which I use for playback and in a pinch as a second camera... everything was fine. So, a couple times since, I have mucked about with the Sony camera with a tape - record first time and it seems fine, rerecord and there are problems with playback. Throw it in the Cannon and everything is happy, happy! Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Dale.