Update: Card Crashed while in use at DVinfo.net

John Sirb · December 3rd, 2010, 07:07 AM

Well an update.

The problem repeated it's ugly self again tonight with another card. right in the middle of recording a Christmas concert...boom...just stops and gives an error message for slot A. ( Didnt have any error messages before). Error message flashed was Invalid Media (A)

Starting to point away from bad and/or inexpensive media to camera issue. I'll be on the phone first thing with the JVC Field Engineer. should be an interesting conversation since this is a fairly new camera.

I'm quickly missing the days of tossing a tape in and it worked 99.9%

John Sirb · December 3rd, 2010, 02:10 PM

Discovered this morning that the card that came up as invalid media was readable and I was able to pull the footage of of it. Whew!

I did talk to a JVC Field Engineer and his opinion was it was just coincidence to have two issues with cards in a week's time. He made a point about some of the card manufacturers and the ability to maintain the data rate of the camera,

I have a couple of SanDisk extremes on the way.

Peter DeArmond · December 3rd, 2010, 04:02 PM

I've been using the 16 GB SanDisk Extreme cards with zero problems. JVC's manual recommends three types: Panasonic, Toshiba and SanDisk. They say using other cards may result in recording failure or data loss. But I know others use Transcend and other cards with no problems, so it makes you wonder.

Lou Caputo · December 6th, 2010, 10:09 AM

We've been using Transcend cards in both of our 700's for almost a year now without issue. More recently, we got caught without enough media and had to resort to using CHEAP Patriot SDHC cards and they too worked with incident.

December 3rd, 2010, 07:07 AM	#1
John Sirb Regular Crew Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Amherst, OH Posts: 134	Update: Card Crashed while in use Well an update. The problem repeated it's ugly self again tonight with another card. right in the middle of recording a Christmas concert...boom...just stops and gives an error message for slot A. ( Didnt have any error messages before). Error message flashed was Invalid Media (A) Starting to point away from bad and/or inexpensive media to camera issue. I'll be on the phone first thing with the JVC Field Engineer. should be an interesting conversation since this is a fairly new camera. I'm quickly missing the days of tossing a tape in and it worked 99.9% __________________ John Sirb Lake Breeze Video

December 3rd, 2010, 02:10 PM	#2
John Sirb Regular Crew Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Amherst, OH Posts: 134	Further Update Discovered this morning that the card that came up as invalid media was readable and I was able to pull the footage of of it. Whew! I did talk to a JVC Field Engineer and his opinion was it was just coincidence to have two issues with cards in a week's time. He made a point about some of the card manufacturers and the ability to maintain the data rate of the camera, I have a couple of SanDisk extremes on the way. __________________ John Sirb Lake Breeze Video

December 3rd, 2010, 04:02 PM	#3
Peter DeArmond Tourist Join Date: May 2010 Location: Bear Valley Springs, California Posts: 4	I've been using the 16 GB SanDisk Extreme cards with zero problems. JVC's manual recommends three types: Panasonic, Toshiba and SanDisk. They say using other cards may result in recording failure or data loss. But I know others use Transcend and other cards with no problems, so it makes you wonder.

December 6th, 2010, 10:09 AM	#4
Lou Caputo Regular Crew Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Largo, Florida Posts: 46	We've been using Transcend cards in both of our 700's for almost a year now without issue. More recently, we got caught without enough media and had to resort to using CHEAP Patriot SDHC cards and they too worked with incident.