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(LASERandDVDfan) wrote in message news:

Clarify, please.

When you say "straighten out," you mean when any "snow" in the picture is gone?

When you fast-forward or reverse, do you mean you have a picture only when you
go into those visual search modes or does it come back and then go away when
you get the deck into playback mode again?

The only two possibilities I can think of is that your VCR either requires a
complete cleaning of the tape path (NO cleaning tapes) or that the useful life
of the video heads have come to an end. - Reinhart

Certainly! What I mean, is that when I stick a tape into the VCR to
play, I can not get the video to "track". Usually the VCR does some
kind of automatic tracking, according to the owner manual. But there
is also a manual tracking button that I can use to improve a
particularly stubborn video tape. I thought maybe I could clean the
heads with a long cotton swab and some alcohol. But the machine is 10
years old, so the second possibilities might be likely?!

Thank you for your assistance!

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