Hey y'all, long time no see. Anyways, I've been doing some transfers on and off with knowledge gleaned from this site, but I've stumbled upon a very unusual glitch recently. On one tape I have, there's a moment where it appears like the VCR misreads the control track and tries to play it as an SP recording (it's an EP recording). As far as I can tell, the rest of the recording is in excellent shape (on a scale from 1-10, with one being unwatchably bad and 10 being crystal clear DVD quality, I'd give it a 7 or 8), and the error doesn't happen anywhere else on the tape (or any of my other tapes, for that matter). The recording is a first gen EP recording with Hifi audio, taped over nothing, recorded just about 10 years ago (the recording is from a marathon of Fairly Odd Parents episodes that led up to the premiere of a special that aired Jan. 20, 2003, according to wiki). The tape is a Maxell GX Silver T160, according to the cardboard sleeve, so that probably has something to do with it.
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