I cannot get the vcr picture to show. The sound is fine, but the picture will not come on. What am I doing wrong?

try changing the channel from 3 to 4 or vice versa. You will usually get sound but no picture if its on the wrong channel

The vcr is fine. buy a cleaning tape. people say dry cleaner tapes wear out the heads, but it fixed my problem when my vcr only showed snow. but try a wet tape first. follow the instructions that came with the tape and run it a few times.

Hate to say this, but when power outages occur, things like vcr's are the first thing to fry. But if you feel that the vcr is fine as far as powering up, then unplug it from the wall socket for 30 minutes or so, plug back in and see results.

Two things. 1 Scart. 2 VCR head dirty.
The biggest cause of sound but no picture is the scart lead. The pins often fail to make a good connection and so leave you with sound only. Solution is to replace the scart lead, the better quality the better.
2 If you are playing a video and get no picture, the cause is dirt, clean the head with Servisol Video 40.

Do you have a picture with just normal playback of VCR? If the answer is no, then it sounds like the head might need cleaning. Use Servisol video 40 see image below:

the tv HDMI point is faulty becourse i tried it from other point and is working fine, thank you for your concern.

use a cleaning tape. you lost me sorry

If you were using RCA cables, you may have had them hooked up wrong. I know this may sound like an easy fix, but I still hook them up wrong from time to time. Especially if there are more than one set of RCA hook-ups on the back of the unit. If you were using a S-video cable you shouldn't have to use RCA cables, if you had both hooked up that could cause your DVD/VCR unit to not work properly and only get a partial feed to the TV. I hope this helps a little. Good luck.

I need to know your connection "tree" i e your chain of components and how they are wired...accordianman