What could the problem be? Playing a video tape back only a little fast forwarded speed lets the image play fairly well, but at normal speed there is lots of black and white flickering appearing images. The might be a very common problem with video tape playback because the same black and white appears with other video tape players I have used in the past, although I do not recalls having experimented previous times this happened with speeding up playback using the fast forward feature. This video tape recorder has a spring loaded turn switch for fastforward and fast rewind.

Edited by olack at 3:15 pm, Mon 11 Jan

olack - 2021-01-11 15:11:00

dirty heads

bitsnpieces2020 - 2021-01-11 15:34:00

Thank you.

olack - 2021-01-11 16:29:00

Would it have a belt drive like old audio tapes ? Might be slipping.

mechnificent - 2021-01-11 16:40:00

clean the heads with pure isopropyl alcohol and a cloth, or use spectacle lens cleaner, I'm not a great fan of the VHS lens cleaner tapes

Edited by kevlight at 5:13 pm, Mon 11 Jan

kevlight - 2021-01-11 17:09:00

Don't forget to clean all the rollers/guides as they get build ups of dirt on them too.

muppet_slayer - 2021-01-11 19:09:00

Fell had 4 video tape players and one plays the tapes perfectly so 3 recorders went to the tip and I bought him new video tape head cleaner.

olack - 2021-01-13 17:11:00