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There are a number of potential problems with this mostly due to age.
What is the problem? Also, where are you located? There are some of us
able to repair these, but a location is required.

The older VHS decks had a "lighthouse" bulb sticking up into the cassette
for end sensors at each side to detect the clear leader at the ends of the
tape - what it does when the bulb blows depends on the firmware. A common
symptom is; won't come out of standby.

Later ones had an LED on the post, which almost never failed.

No idea whether the 8mm has one - but I'd look to see.