This is a great MiniDV deck that I had in film school in the late 1990s. I used it with Final Cut Pro and a Mac to edit many of my short film projects.

I've just tested the deck and it seems to work - with reservations. The first time I started it, the images played back with black bars across them. I think this may have been due to a bad cable or weird connection, because it did not reoccur during the rest of my testing.

But sometimes the play button wouldn't work - I'd have to rewind the tape for a bit and then play for the play button to work. And with one tape, the machine gave me a "CAUTION" signal and would not play the tape. A different deck played the tape fine, but this machine repeatedly refused to play it. 

These problems may be just a question of cleaning the heads or it might represent a bigger mechanical issue. I don't know, so I'm selling the machine at a huge discount -- less than a third of what they usually go for these days.

The cable that connects the machine to the power supply has some electrical tape wrapped around it at one point where the plastic cracked.

I have not tested the machine linked up to a computer for video editing -- just tested it by running component cables into a television.

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