JVC S7600 eats or rejects VHS-C tapes?

[maimou]

Hi everyone and happy new year,

I recently bought a JVC S7600 VCR to digitize my old VHS and VHS-C tapes, and while it's been great with standard VHS tapes, I’ve run into an issue with my VHS-C tapes.

I’m using a VHS-C adapter, but whenever I insert the adapter the VCR either rejects it outright or eats the tape.

For some context:

The VCR plays regular VHS tapes smoothly, with no problems.
The small cassettes play fine in the camcorder, so the tapes themselves seem to be in good condition.
I tried the adapter on another VCR that I had (Sony SLV-ED1MJ) and it plays fine without any issues.

The adapter I'm using: https://i.imgur.com/xCRs4R2.jpeg

Attached you can find videos on what happens inside the player for both normal VHS tapes and with VHS-C adapter.

Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

[Zulbat]

My first post here and I don't know if guesses is what you need but I have had similar problem with jvc and cheap china adapters like you have in the video. With more premium panasonic or mechanical adapters I have had much less eaten tapes and less rejects.

If you can, my suggestion is top get a proper name brand adapter I say its worth twice the cost of the cheap ones.

[BW37]

There are lots of discussions on this forum discussing recommended VHS-C adapters. These are all the old Matsushita made (JVC or Panasonic) battery operated, heavy (steel components) adapters. Another recommendation is to transfer the actual VHS-C tapes from their smaller C shells into a full sized VHS shell. There are videos on YouTube on how to do this.

Here’s one discussion:

https://www.digitalfaq.com/forum/vid...mendation.html

BW