>>4126312>tapes eatenobviously this is a problem with the tape mechanism itself, not the camera. With these camcorders it's typically the tape deck that goes bad because it's really complex.
I would first eject the tape and have a look inside. I'm not super familiar with video tapes and helical scan heads but in my cassette decks typically I can reach the rollers and stuff with a q-tip and clean them.
tapes get eaten for various reasons. It could be the rubber degrading, bad belts, or even a magnetized head. Cleaning the visible transport rollers might fix it. demagnetizing the head (properly, look this up) can also help. I'm not sure how bad replacing belts on these could be but I can only assume it's very hard.
Worst case the tape deck isn't worth fixing, but you can probably figure out a way to string some video cables and adapters together and put a mini DVR on it and use it as a tapeless camcorder.
