Panasonic NV-HS1000 S-VHS VCR "keeps shutting down 8" Questions

...shutting off "DV control." Analog input, especially pass-through has no way of controlling the transport (i.e. player controls). All it can do is accept audio/video input coming down the pipe but no ...

...8 years. However I want to keep it, and so I have this problem that needs fixing: It intermittently shuts down when it is playing or rewinding/fastforwarding, the machine goes into standby mode. On ...