Samsung SV-5000w world vcr

It may not like tapes recorded on another machine, and have tracking issues. The whine may be related to a monaural audio track. Does the unit play back a unit-recorded tape OK? Stereo OK? JR

Michael wrote:

Michael ha escrito:

if it ain't broke don't fix it! that said, do the obvious: clean entire tape path, check the tape is not crinkling slightly at the roller guides, check it isn't riding up or down on the A/C head and above all change the pinch roller if in doubt.

-B.

Will do....was planning on opening it up today. Stereo is ok....don't like it's playback of storebought ntsc movies compared to my other vcrs.

I'll pop the cover and watch it today....it looks like (and I've read elsewhere) that it has some power supply issues and I can see there is an overall subtle degradation as the unit heats up....the motors are actually sometimes pausing during rewind.

Like I say...if anyone has some specific tips that "should have" been in the original Samsung design, let me know.

I'm recording some stuff on to DVD.....maybe the TBC in the DVD will clean up some of the instability....we'll see.

Michael ha escrito:

in that case you could start by changing the capacitors in the power supply. use only 105=BA rated types. if there is very poor filtering you may get noise in the video circuits and other unpredictable behaviour, but do check the tape path and possibly mode switch first.

-B.