Half sized frames

i did a 2 year search and found others had my symptoms, some had answers relating to hd issues, others went unanswered. i have a simple sony digital 8 camcorder. used to import great. recently i couldn't import into quick time (latest version)(just black screen, "no data recorded") tried imovie 6 and got a "half size frames" error. did as they said; unplugged all cables, reset date, time, rec speed to no avail. imovie 8 will import but plays back fast. same with imovie 6. i can import bursts but time code breaks every few seconds stop it. (and playback is fast) tried switching frames rates on imovie, switched from dv input to mpeg 4, same results. went through all the menus on my sony. same problem if i play back dv tapes, old hi-8 through the conversion or av-dv using vhs. as i said used to work great. (well imovie 6 had import issues forever which there are many threads about) but i can't think of anything that changed.
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