DaveGardner

Thanks, Phil! You were exactly right. There's a button right next to the "bars" button under the LCD panel that I must have accidentally hit when turning bars on or off. Switched me to user bits display. I appreciate the response.

Suddenly my Z1U shows zeroes for time code during record or playback. Tapes and time code play back fine on another deck, so I think this is a time code reader or display issue. Have I accidentally goofed up a setting or do I have a broken camera? Anybody run into this before?

Add to the tape stock confusion apparently there is an even newer tape stock Sony is recommending for use in their HDV pro camera (according to a tape vendor), and that is the SO-PHDVM63DM which costs anywhere from about $17 to $21 apiece. Wonder if that's worth the price. I'm just getting the camera, and unsure of which stock to try. I'm also going to be shooting some SD material with it, and like using the Sony DVM60EX stock (about $7.30). Wondering whether I would regret mixing this stock with one or the other of these more expensive stocks. Has anyone heard about this more expensive stock?