Sony TRV480

[JoeD]

Hi,

I have a Sony DCR-TRV480 that's suddenly giving me an error message: Reinsert Cassette. It is properly inserted. Anyone out there have any suggestions as to what's going on here? Thanks.

[RFBurns]

Common causes to this problem is either the cassette door is not opening properly once the mech loads..which is due to a slightly bent, tiny lever that unlocks the cassette door as the cartridge is inserted into the load basket....or the mech is out of timming. The timming error happens when a tape is forced or shoved into the load basket, putting too much pressure on the mech and can jump a few degrees off time, thus the sensors in the mech detects a "mis-load" and gives the error message you are seeing.