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teddanson
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Post subject: A miracle VCR repair, and another story that's not as good. Posted: 26 Sep 2021, 17:29 |
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Wasn't sure where to put this so please do with it what you will.
I fished my Sony SVO-1500P out of storage, where it's been for a couple of years. Went to play a cassette in the hopes of capturing it but it kept ejecting the cassette! It worked fine before I put it in storage so I wondered if it was the tape heads needing a clean.
I put a tape head cleaner in to the VCR and it spat it out. Repeated the process a few times and finally it took the cassette and played! Next I tried playing a cassette, it's from 1981 and a big box original. It spat it out. Argh!
I stuck a can of compressed air in to the tape slot and gave it a good once over. I then ran the head cleaner again just in case dust etc had moved to unwanted areas. I put the 1981 cassette back in and it worked!
Only down side is a couple of moments where the VCR has to readjust the tracking, only really bad parts, my capture device loses signal for a second. The audio remains so I may just edit those parts in Premiere and put a black screen up to replace the No Signal title card.
I know the above isn't really a repair as such, but I was thrilled something so basic got the VCR to work again. I love the SVO-1500P, it's been a faithful machine for years and I didn't want to have to replace it as they are hard to find now. I will treat it as a sign though that it is maybe time to capture all of my small VHS library before the machine dies permanently. Going to try and get all my tapes captured over the next couple of weeks. No fiddling around and overthinking it. Just a VCR, decent computer and an Elgato Game Capture HD. No fuss, just preserve the tapes asap.
_________________ Blog: The Coterie / L'boxd: Diary Pioneer CLD-R7G, CLD-D925 | Yamaha APD-2 | DVDO Edge, VP50 Pro
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teddanson
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Post subject: Re: A miracle VCR repair, and another story that's not as go Posted: 26 Sep 2021, 20:34 |
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Just by way of update, it captured the first film with no problems. I'm really pleased with the quality, just under 9GB for 1hr 50 mins. I won't rencode it to reduce the file size as I want it as untouched as possible for now. When I have the time I'll do it properly but for a quick capture it's turned out great imho. I just want to watch my films. I captured that 3D F1 film as well. Doing another full length film now so that's 3 cassettes captured today. Quick slightly OT question, how can I ensure I am getting a HiFi stereo signal? My VCR has a HiFi icon on the LED display, but I can't get it to light up when I play a HiFi cassette. Any ideas?
_________________ Blog: The Coterie / L'boxd: Diary Pioneer CLD-R7G, CLD-D925 | Yamaha APD-2 | DVDO Edge, VP50 Pro
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