Sony TVR22 Hosed?

I have a 2 year-old Sony MiniDV DCR-TRV22 cam-corder. Yesterday when I went to record some video of the kids I turned it on and all I'm getting the viewfinder is a blueish-green image with a white line running horizontally across the center and bands of vertical lines of various shades of blue and green.

If I wave my hand in front of it I can see the green screen change in brightness, but there are no visible images, and obviously if I hit "record" all I get is blueish-green video.

I've tried a head-cleaning cassette, I've also tried a couple of different MiniDV cartridges. Nothing has worked. I can however put a previously recorded tape in, hit play, and it works fine.

I've checked all the settings, nothing seems to have changed.

What else can I check?

Is it worth sending this thing in for repair (Ritz Camera quoted me $150 just to look at it and a 6-8 week repair time).

Thanks in advance!

THANK YOU FOR THAT TIP!!!!

I checked the Sony web site and navigated to

Where they discussed the problem I described earlier. They even had a picture showing exactly what I'm seeing:

http://esupport.sony.com/perl/news-i...8&mdl=DCRTRV22



I filled out a repair request and am awaiting instructions. Thank you again, you just saved me the $300 I was about to spend on a new camera.