So question about the Sony hvr-mrc1, I don’t know if anyone else has experienced this…
I bought two new fire wires because I was having a issue with the one that came with the device where it wouldn’t record at all, so I updated the firmware to the 3.0 and bought a new fire wire and boom it worked. But as soon as I turned the device off last night and tried to use it again today it didn’t work again. My camera says dv in and everything. So I opened the second cable out of the two I ordered and it worked again. So my question is could there be a issue with the device? Are FireWire cables easy to fry? Is it my vx frying them? This is a annoying and expensive problem to have to try and fix everytime I want to use the device… thanks in advance
Do you power it up with the device AND VX on at the same time OR do you have them plugged in, turn the MRC1 on, then the VX? I wonder if you can actually short the cable or at worst, the device by turning them on or plugging them together if they're both on? I know that's the issue with plugging a camera into a FireWire port on a PC or Mac and having them both on can cause that issue, not sure with these devices though.
I'm wondering if someone else could chime in on this.
But yeah other than that, it could be your FireWire port on the VX. I spoke to someone a while back with a similar issue to you, IIRC they replaced the cable and it was fine. I imagine FireWire port damage wouldn't be intermittent and usually is a fault of; it either works or doesn't. Then again I might be wrong there, too.