Sony SLV-D550P DVD Player/VCR "play tape" Questions

fine recently. Thanks for your help Problem in the mechanism that moves the tape in play,ff,rewind and also winds tape back into cassette and ejects it.Likely a bad or worn belt or drive idler(rubber)

...if I were trying to play a dvd. If I put in a dvd disc, it will play. How do I go about getting this unit to play video tapes? Your combo is selected to play dvd. You have to select vcr to play

...after playing & removing tape in trying to play a disc the screen says no tape inside insert tape and does not play the disc.How do I get to play a disk? Change the input switch to DVD instead of

play fine on all other VHS players. The only machine they don't work in is the JVC DR-MV150B. The machine was just in for repair because of a motor-boating sound that was getting recorded when copying

...play the same tape on my other VCR, the image rolls. I can play bought VHS tapes on my other VCR and they play fine, but that same tape, when played on my Zenith XBV442 rolls the picture...do I need ...

...tape.The play button also used the same rewind backward and speed forward motor to push the film foward to the VCR play head head drums to play the tape. One tape carriage loader motor. One Capstan ...

forward--let it go all the way to the end and rewind--if unit does not stop after doing that see what happens in play. A worn drive unit that moves the tape can sometimes get better after run this way

...play the tape it appears that nothing was recorded on it, but I'm certain there is since I wrote dates on it. The tape counter works on all of my other tapes, so I know it isn't my VCR. I have tried ...

...get rid of interference on playing video Are you playing a VHS tape? If so, have you cleaned the tape heads at all? You can buy cleaning tapes which you play in the machine, same as an ordinary