newbie, bad VCR, good tape, any suggestions?

25 May 2005 7:47 PM

Mark

I have got a VCR from my friend.
Old one. Samsung.
Play a tape there. Bad picture. Very unclear.
Take same tape; play in a good VCR. Get good picture.
Can I fix it cheap or what can be dtried. I have not used VCRs probably
for 10 years, so I do not remember probably the obvious things to do?

27 May 2005 6:11 AM

gerry

Tape heads on the Samsung VCR may be dirty. You would be better off
looking for a DVD recorder with a separate hard drive to store your
videos on DVDRs.

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> I have got a VCR from my friend.
> Old one. Samsung.
> Play a tape there. Bad picture. Very unclear.
> Take same tape; play in a good VCR. Get good picture.
> Can I fix it cheap or what can be dtried. I have not used VCRs probably
> for 10 years, so I do not remember probably the obvious things to do?

27 May 2005 7:25 AM

Daver

Clean the heads.

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"Mark" <tentim***@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I have got a VCR from my friend.
> Old one. Samsung.
> Play a tape there. Bad picture. Very unclear.
> Take same tape; play in a good VCR. Get good picture.
> Can I fix it cheap or what can be dtried. I have not used VCRs probably
> for 10 years, so I do not remember probably the obvious things to do?
>

27 May 2005 9:40 AM

Laurence Payne

On 25 May 2005 12:47:33 -0700, "Mark" <tentim***@hotmail.com> wrote:

>I have got a VCR from my friend.
>Old one. Samsung.
>Play a tape there. Bad picture. Very unclear.
>Take same tape; play in a good VCR. Get good picture.
>Can I fix it cheap or what can be dtried. I have not used VCRs probably
>for 10 years, so I do not remember probably the obvious things to do?

Is "clean the heads" too obvious? :-)