I operated it till yesterday evening, but 2day morning its kind of dead, I gave direct power thru adaptor n i tried with 2 batteries also, but its just not comin on, this is just my 4th casseste n i v uswed it very sparingly as well as carefuly, yesterday night i didnt remove the cassete n battery frm the cam, but i hav done this earlier also,and i hav put sony cassete this time as i ***** get a panasonic cassete, othere than these trivialo things i dont find any major wrong i hav done with my cam.. somebody pls help me out....