Trying to see if I can fix up this old beast.
There is some noise that is not supposed to be there, especially noticeable when paused (start of clip) on top of the image. There is some pattern over the whole picture.
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I thinking it may be bad caps somewhere, but I don't knw where to start looking. Haven't seen any visible issues on the circuit boards. It works great otherwise, Hi-Fi audio sounds fine so I don't think there are issues with the heads. We got 2 of these machines, both seem to have the same issue, though one also has some colour interference as well.
Would one normally replace ceramics capacitors when recapping VCRs (not just specifically this model, have others that I'm considering doing some replacements on), or just electrolytics?
Also wondering if anyone has experience with how to disconnect the "ribbon" cable connectors on these types of boards? They don't seem to come off easily and I don't want to risk breaking them.