Equipment Repair & Maintenance Services
Precision Video Service specializes in broadcast and professional VCR repair for the greater Seattle area and beyond.
With 35+ years experience, we provide expert repair and maintenance for clients such as broadcasters, video professionals, video archivists, and individuals. If you are looking a well qualified engineer to provide top quality repairs for your aging video equipment, you’ve found it here!
Precision Video Service also offers video tape digitizing services to transfer your old video tapes to digital files. Click here to learn more about this service.
Quality repairs done right…
Expert repair and maintenance for your video tape machines using specialized tools, factory jigs, test equipment, genuine alignment tapes, and decades of experience.
Sony DSR-45 shown with alignment extender connected to oscilloscope for tape path and servo alignment. This is the only way to correctly adjust tape path alignment to meet factory specs.
Well equipped shop for highest quality repairs and precision service.
Utilizing a wide variety of specialized tools, jigs, test equipment, alignment tapes, board extenders, and more, Precision Video Service can breathe new life into your old video tape equipment.
Sony BVU-950 shown with head protrusion gauge to check the wear condition of the video heads.
Spare Parts – In Stock!
Many repair parts are becoming scarce for video tape machines. Sometimes this makes repairs more difficult. Precision Video Service puts great effort into maintaining an inventory of these hard to find parts.
Spare parts inventory for Sony, Panasonic, JVC, Akai, and many others.
Common makes & models we repair
Sony BVU-950 / BVU-920 / BVU-900 Umatic SP click for details
Sony VO-9850 / VO-9800 / VP-9600 / VP-9000 Umatic SP
Sony VO-7600 / VO-7630 / VP-7020 / VP-7000 Umatic
Sony VO-5850 / VO-5800 / VO-5600 / VO-5630 / VP-5000 Umatic
Sony BVW-75 / BVW-70 / BVW-65 / BVW-60 Betacam SP
Sony BVW-D75 Betacam SP
Sony PVW-2800 / PVW-2650 / PVW-2600 Betacam SP
Sony UVW-1800 / UVW-1600 / UVW-1400 / UVW-1200 Betacam SP
Sony DVW-A500 / DVW-A510 / DVW-500 / DVW-510 Digital Betacam
Sony DNW-A75 / DNW-A70 / DNW-A100 Betacam SX
Sony DVW-2000 / DVW-M2000 Digital Betacam
Sony MSW-2000 / MSW-A2000 / MSW-M2000 / MSW-M2100 MPEG IMX
Sony HDW-2000 / HDW-M2000 / HDW-S2000 HDCAM
Sony HDW-500 / HDW-F500 HDCAM
Sony SRW-5500 / SRW-5800 HDCAM-SR
Sony EVO-9850 / EVO-9800 / EVO-9700 Hi-8
Sony DSR-series (includes DVCAM / HDV / DV various models
JVC - VHS / DV / HDV various models
Panasonic - VHS / DV / HDV various models
Sony AV-8650 / AV-8600 / AV-3650 / AV-3600 EIAJ 1/2″ reel-reel
Akai VT-100 / VT-110 / VT-120 / VT-150 Akai 1/4” reel-reel
Other equipment we repair:
TBC repair (Timebase correctors)
CRT monitor repair (primarily Sony PVM, BVM)
Please inquire if your model is not listed here.
VCR & VTR formats we repair
3/4” Umatic
3/4” Umatic SP
Betamax
VHS
S-VHS
D-VHS (limited support)
Betacam
Betacam SP
Betacam SX
Digital Betacam
Betacam MPEG IMX
HDCAM
HDCAM-SR
Video-8 (or 8mm)
Hi-8
Digital-8 (or D8)
Mini-DV (or DV)
DVCAM
HDV
EIAJ 1/2″ reel-reel (black & white AND color)
Akai 1/4″ reel-reel (black & white AND color)
Sony D2 (limited support)
Panasonic DVCPro 50 (limited support)
Panasonic DVCPro HD (limited support)
Panasonic MII (limited support)
Panasonic D3, D5 (limited support)
Please inquire if your format is not listed here.
Cost estimates for equipment repair service
Equipment repairs are billed at $100 per hour + parts.
All equipment repairs are treated as pre-approved for $200 unless otherwise arranged.
Any repair that can be finished under $200 will be completed without an estimate.
Please note: $200 is NOT a “minimum charge”. Your repair may be less than $200.
If diagnostics show a repair will exceed $200, then a repair estimate will be provided before work begins.
On approved repair estimates, diagnostics are included.
On declined repair estimates, diagnostics will be billed up to $100, but often less.
Additional costs (ie: sales tax, shipping, insurance, packing, pickup, delivery, etc) are not included in the repair estimate.
All prices are in $USD.
Please contact Dave to inquire about repair services. We are happy to help!
Service manual error codes:
Follow this link to access service manual error codes for Sony broadcast and professional VCR’s.