Hello,
first of all sorry for my bad english.
I will try to explain what happening to my JVC GR-HD1. One year ago i purchased it. Everything was ok. But one day, i turned it on, and i wanted to make some videos, and when i click Record Mode, i see green lights flashing on LCD (like waves) and i cant record nothing, because video looks very bad, it records with those green light waves. Those waves are only when i choose recording mode. And one more problem, when i plug camera to PC, i cant capture video, i just see black.
I hope you understand my problem.
thank you, will wait for answers!

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233 opened thread just to read.
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1. Did you try resetting your camcorder?

2. Did you look in the troubleshooting part of your manual?

3. Can you better describe "green lights flashing on LCD (like waves)"? or better yet can you put some frame grabs or video on the internet.

4. Now you can not capture video? Have you captured video before? And now you can not capture video?

5. You might have to send your camcorder in for repair. It does not sound like something which will repair itself.



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Considering that there are no official manufacturer representatives (to my knowledge) here, all responses are subject other users having some idea of what might be the problem. Are you expecting a month of people posting "I have no idea" to be helpful?

As for the advertisements -- they seem relatively benign compared to some places I've been. And consider that the alternative would be for you to have to pay to subscribe (how many random users would you expect to find for help in a pay model?)


"green light waves" without showing a photo of it could mean anything; if in columns it could be an overloaded or "hot" pixel in the CCD bleeding into adjacent pixels. If it pulses at some fixed frequency it could be some poorly shielded motor inducing magnetic pulses into the front-end of an A/D converter...

If playback of a recording shows the "waves" in the same exact spot each time you rewind and play again, they are recorded on tape (or whatever media the camera uses). If it moves around from playback to playback, the tape is likely clean, but the problem is in the decode to the display.

It's a high-def camera, if the topic header is correct; That means MPEG2 (for HDV tape) or MPEG4 (for DVD/hard-drive)... Assuming it is tape, playback artifacts could be a sign of cheap tape with the metal surface flaking off -- each loss of signal would result in a corrupt macro-block decode error, showing up as a rectangle of some sort.

JVC recalled the GR-HD1 because of a defective CCD block. JVC is offering free repairs up until October 2007. My camera had the exact same problem and JVC fixed it for free.