Mark D. Zacharias wrote:

"Zac" wrote in message
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One third of the picture is noisy when paused. Its always on the top
half. Slow motion shows a slight amount of noise. Normal Play is OK.
The problem still shows up on store bought pre recorded tapes, but to a
lesser degree.

Also, the audio takes 15 seconds to clear up on SLP tapes.

Thanks for any ideas on how to remedy this.



It's the video head. Sorry. Common symptom of a failing head.

Reverse-search will also be bad.

Mark Z.


It might just be a clogged (dirty) head.
Try a full manual cleaning first. Note that if you do it wrong you can
destroy the heads. If you do it right you could solve the problem.
Good Luck.