Video Playback / Recording Devices

I have a CCD-TRV37 sony Handycam camcorder that uses 8 tapes.the camra records fine and plays back fine on the attached LCD screen, but when I hook it to the TV to playback the picture comes scrumbled and not clear, audio however is fine. I used different  V/A cables with no change. it does not have S video out put, put there is an output marked RFU DC out. could this be a programing problem in the camra, or is it a bad output. I have many tapes that I want to play back and record on DVDs. Any advice on how to salvage them. Thanks

When I press 'record' whilst viewing Guide Plus, the HDD starts and ends at a certain time but not when the programme actually starts and finishes. Eg tonight it started 30 secs b4 prog and ended 30secs b4, so I missed the last bit. Why is this and can it be changed? Do they all do this (I'm thinking of buying a Panasonic instead).

 (Product is Sony DVD recorder with 160GB hard drive HXD890).

 Thanks, Kirsity.

First of all, I want to thank Brandon C. for the great article on combining mpeg files using the DOS copy command.  This is a follow up question to that, and perhaps the general community here can offer me some assistance.

 I used the copy command and successfully combined two video files. But after doing so, I noticed the following: