Dvd works fine, the audio is ok on vhs tapes, but no picture. cleaned the heads several time, but still no picture.
Is the picturejust snow or no picture at all? Most cleaning tapes won't work if the heads have been clogged up because of a bad tape. A professional cleaning and alignment may be in order here. Can you clarify the lack of picture please?
Thanks,
Dan
The snowy picture is an indication that there is no signal from the video heads. The audio comes from a different head. The heads are clogged up. Try taking a blank tape and "playing" it from beginning to end. Then rewind it just enough to start playing again. Hit play then scan in the reverse mode for a few minutes. That might clean up the heads enough to work. If not, then you will need to have the unit professionally cleaned.
Dan
Some machines will allow you to "preview" by hitting either FF or REW when in play mode. This will force the tape to go in reverse mode and hopefully "clean" the heads.
Dan
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works what are we doing wrong?
MikeNJ1964
Guru
(yellow) RCA jack and S-VIDEO jack. If you are using the Component
jacks, the DVD side will work but the VCR will not. This is because
the quality of video recorded on VHS tapes is so much lower than
component quality video. 3,971 views
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the picture is snowy.
when you say "hit play, then scan in the reverse mode" do you mean - hit rewind and watch the blank screen as it is rewinding? not sure what you mean by scan in the reverse mode,
thanks for the suggestion. the dvd/vcr is at my mom's. i will go there sunday and try what you said. thanks again, and i hope it works!!!! :-)
I have the same problem. I have a DVD/VCR combo player. It doesn't matter whether it is a PAL or NTSC VHS tape, but I am not getting picture from VHS tapes (Sound is Ok) while playing.
DVD discs play without any problem on the same Combo Player.
Hi my problem is with one particular tape.When I put this tape in all that
comes up is a snowy screen,all other tapes work fine.And its weird because this tape played fine a couple of weeks ago.Is the problem with the tape itself ??
Hi my problem is with one particular VHS tape.It does not play at
all,all that comes up is a snowy screen,all other tapes work fine,so I
don't think it's the VCR.Just last week this tape was working fine,so
wonder what the problem could be.Thanks for any help.
DVD works fine on S-Video, but no video signal on VHS -screen is blank not snowy. VHS audio is fine. Composite output works with VHS, the heads are not dirty.
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