Sylvania DVD/VCR combo

The tracking needs to be adjusted. Sometimes it's a knob on the VCR, and sometimes it's a control on the remote. Adjust it for the best picture, and the sound shoud be restored.
Good luck, and hope this helps..

Check ur RCA cable setting might have a short in the cables.

You're describing what could be a loose or worn loading belt problem, most of the vcr mechanisms used in these combos use one to load the tape and thread it for it to play or record, that is why you have to keep puhing the tape untill the machine accepts the tape and you have to keep pressing play untill it starts the play function.

are they burnt disks?

Search for DVD43 on the net. It's a free download. It works 99.99% of the time.

You could try cleanining it first that would be a simple solution

Go buy a video head tape or due it yourself radio shack has video head cleaner. Remove cover unplug clead small silver audio head on right side. good luck

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did a few google searches and suggestions were made to buy a**ther vcr...** way to fix the vcr heads. thanks anyways!

wait a bit. call the tv company. call an electrician; call a neighbor.

we cannot get the vcr portion to work only the dvd player works what are we doing wrong?
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Best Solution posted on Oct 24, 2007
MikeNJ1964
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Rating: 88%, 431 votes

On some of the DVD/VCR combo units, the VCR output is only available through the RF jack (channel 3), standard video (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.
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I imagine you have checked the disk for scratches top and bottom, if so you can purchase a cd/dvd lens cleaner cdrom as the laser may need realigning and cleaning.