Yes Jamie, you could well be right there.
This old VCR was acquired many moons ago for the simple purpose of transferring the contents of a large number of Betamax recordings to VHS. Since then (which was many years ago) it has been sitting idle. Now although I still have a large pile of Betamax tapes, these days when I do need to make a recording, (which in itself is infrequent), I use one of the several VHS machines in the house. Consequently - and for all intents and purposes - this old Betamax machine is simply redundant (Hmm - I know the feeling! :@). It was only because I 'tripped' over it a few weeks back that I simply switched it on to see if it worked (curiosity, etc.) - and we know the rest. My original hope was that 'the fix' was going to be 'something simple' (I'm an uncurable optimist) - but apparently not - well, not with my very restricted knowledge of servicing VCRs of any make or type.
Anyway, I'll leave this problem to one side for the moment - just in case anything relevant arises - but I don't intend to spend too much further time on it - nor £.
Al.
This old VCR was acquired many moons ago for the simple purpose of transferring the contents of a large number of Betamax recordings to VHS. Since then (which was many years ago) it has been sitting idle. Now although I still have a large pile of Betamax tapes, these days when I do need to make a recording, (which in itself is infrequent), I use one of the several VHS machines in the house. Consequently - and for all intents and purposes - this old Betamax machine is simply redundant (Hmm - I know the feeling! :@). It was only because I 'tripped' over it a few weeks back that I simply switched it on to see if it worked (curiosity, etc.) - and we know the rest. My original hope was that 'the fix' was going to be 'something simple' (I'm an uncurable optimist) - but apparently not - well, not with my very restricted knowledge of servicing VCRs of any make or type.
Anyway, I'll leave this problem to one side for the moment - just in case anything relevant arises - but I don't intend to spend too much further time on it - nor £.
Al.
