This machine taped from Jan 1998>July 11, 2004. FF gave out last year. 44.1 recordings started to get digi noise when played in a DAT other than this D-8 around last Aug. On monday I played a tape with no problems. I went to play another and it read no A-time....no playback, no recording. FF works again. Where is a good place to get it fixed and how much do you think this is going to cost me? I sent a DA-20 to a place in NJ during the summer of 2001. It took them almost a year to fix it. They didn't charge me, but it seemed a bit shady. I'm not going back to them...