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Forum: Video Hardware Repair 07-26-2019, 11:19 PM
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Posted By NJRoadfan
I was able to clear similar head clogging from...

I was able to clear similar head clogging from those 20+ year old Sony tapes by aggressively FF and rewinding "good" tapes thru it. While not normally suggested, a cleaning tape might actually be...
Forum: Video Hardware Repair 07-16-2019, 08:33 AM
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Posted By NJRoadfan
Try cleaning the heads first before touching any...

Try cleaning the heads first before touching any alignment. Are the tapes Sony branded from the early 90s? Its a good chance they clogged the heads.
Forum: Video Hardware Repair 07-14-2019, 03:18 PM
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Posted By hodgey
Right, so first, you should go into the camera...

Right, so first, you should go into the camera menu (with the camera in VTR mode) and set PB Mode to Hi8/8. Since we're aligning to analog tapes here we want to avoid the camera trying to to...
Forum: Video Hardware Repair 07-02-2019, 08:01 AM
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Posted By hodgey
Alignment is fixable yea. i you have a blank...

Alignment is fixable yea. i you have a blank tape, or a tape you can record over, you can do a test by recording a short bit to the tape and see if the tape you recorded plays back. If that works...
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