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VCR tape shuts off VCR

I got a bunch of VCR home-recorded movie tapes. All were recorded on normal commercial tapes, the "autoplay" tab was still there, so it is the normal tape type I use.

I played several and they are OK. But I played one tape, which looks perfectly normal, with strange results.

After tape is inserted in VCR, the VCR automatically turns on (normal). When I start Play, a first movie scene shows, but within seconds, Play stops, the VCR shuts itself off.

The tape looks normal, no damage, etc.

What is happening here?

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Tape inside cassette may be dragging causing the machine to shut down.

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Meat Plow

Yep, slap the cassette (gently) flat on the table a few times, then turn it upside down and repeat. After that, do a fast wind to the end, and a rewind. That might cure it.

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Sjouke Burry

Sjouke Burry wrote in news:47d3172a$0$25501$ snipped-for-privacy@text.nova.planet.nl:

Thanks to all. That tape is now mixed in a big pile of the others, will post back when I find it again. Due to the movies, the tapes may be 25 years old, unused for years, although my own tapes of that vintage never hang up that way. I do notice the color is going in one, and several video glitches in some of them.

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