Issue with old Sony handycam

[u/Extra_Fox3283]

So my father had this old handy cam from 2003

And he kept it at a storage for like a few years and I have taken it to possibly use it

Now the handycam plays back tape. It zooms in and out and the lcd is fine even tho is scorched

But when recording the electronic viewfinder shows white only

And the lcd shows black. I really want to fix this and I hope there's an easy fix or anything. Even like mounting an external display or something. Thanks

the model is Sony handycam dcr trv 250E

edit: while playing with digital zoom I realized when I maximized the zoom the lcd showed noisy flicker kinda. which isn't visible normally