What is wrong with my "new" camera? My playback looks bad My old Canon mv690 camera recorder got broken. It uses MiniDV casettes. To play many old recordings I bought a used Canon GL2 Mini DV 3ccd camera to play my old casettes, but the image is not displaying correctly. Does anyone know what the problem can be? 

This is what my videos looks like on the GL2 Camera:
I would try cleaning the playheads (there are special tapes you can put in for cleaning) and/or checking the playback speed.  Those are the two most common causes of that issue on my GL2.