My day is so so as well. Im worried about my DVD/VCR recorder though. It appears to have a dirty playback head on the VHS part, but I tried running two different head cleaners (both Maxell brand) through several times, and I still get static when I play back tapes. Adjusting the tracking doesn't help.
It makes me wonder if these Maxell VHS head cleaners aren't doing their job. I did have a rather good Philips/Magnavox VHS cleaner, but I have misplaced it at the moment. Im going to have to go through all of my junk boxes later this evening just so I can try and find it and see if that will finally get the heads clean.
If not, I may have to buy another DVD/VHS recording unit since if the head cleaners don't work, something else is wrong.
I don't get it though..I haven't been very rough with the VHS portion. I haven't tried playing tapes that obviously shouldn't be played, and it seems this issue started after playing one of my old tapes I made about 10 years ago. Though with me running the head cleaning tapes through multiple times, I feel bad.
EDIT: Still troubleshooting the VCR issue. I did manage to order up another one of those Philips/Magnavox VHS cleaners off of eBay as the Maxell one appears to be rather cheaply made (my DVD/VCR hates it somewhat). It's going to take time to get here though.
Just watch though...because I ordered another head cleaner off eBay, I will find the one I lost.
Other stuff I got off eBay is a Component Video Switch for Elsie and DVD player and some component video cables to go with it.
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