I've got a Panasonic AG-DV2500 Tape Deck. It's got quite a few hours on, maybe 100-200, not sure. I was wondering if an ordinary head cleaning tape, say the Dynex one, could be used in this to help preserve it, also sometimes I have to recapture clips because a there are small glitches...
I recently filmed some skating in hdv format. unfortunately the camera didn't have a working firewire connect so i sent the tapes to a friend who had an hdv compatible camera (sony fx-7). He captured all the footage fine, and has them on his computer, which is a mac by the way. Now he is...