Hi
Frame taken from faulty VCR:
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Same frame captured from another recorder:
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What's wrong with the first VCR? Worn / dirty heads or anything else?
Videorecorder problem - see pics
Aug 01, 2010
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Likely worn heads, when there is black streaking from white fast transitions like lettering edges.
Arfa
Those two links were pictures of a Yamaha multi-track recorder????????
Yes they are and that recorder was used by a total incompetent.
Were those pictures captured from the VTR in question? If so I guess I missed the point of the pictures.
The pictures are frames from a video, shot with a video-camera. That video was copied to a normal-sized VHS cassette. I played the videotape on 2 different VCRs and captured the exact same frame to show how one of my VCR behaves, compared to a working one.
Note the tearing in the time/date text from the VCR. The Yamaha is just there to throw us off.
G=B2
Yeah I saw that on a second look. My fix would be to clean the video head. If that didn't do it, pull and replace it. I started out in the VTR repair world back when it took two people to life a U-Matic deck on the workbench.
On 03/08/2010 14:41, Meat Plow wrote: I started out in the VTR
Resuscitate? Kiss of life?
Adrian C
LOL
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Life...just saw that. Not a typo the t and e keys aren't together. More life a Freudian slip.
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