Canuck278 0 #1 September 8, 2003 Okay this is for all you techies out there....I am having problems with my tapes of my pff jumps....some play on my vcr and some just the sound....all on the same tape...oone will work then one will be just blue screen with the sound....I know they are there because i have watched them all on another vcr and they worked fine....weird..i don't get it...any ideas? Steve Therapy is expensive, popping bubble wrap is cheap. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
leroydb 0 #2 September 8, 2003 uh... your VCR sucks? sounds like you need to clean the heads or maybe its about to burn in? maybe dif parts of the tape are NTSC and some are PAL?Leroy ..I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Canuck278 0 #3 September 8, 2003 i don't know about the cleaning, should be ok as it plays the other sections great! It does show a quick fuzzy part at the beginning and then end (ie first & last couple sec) of the ones that don't work....tried the tracking..didn't work....hmmm it is definatly that the vcr picks it up as being to bad an image to display then switches to a blue screen while continuing to play the sound.....Like i said though it played perfectly on another vcr....i think i'm just going to throw mine out the window Steve Therapy is expensive, popping bubble wrap is cheap. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TomAiello 26 #4 September 8, 2003 I used to work with a lot of different VCR's. We'd see that kind of behavior when we took a tape from an older VCR onto a newer low-end commercial model. The new one had a feature that scanned the recording and just blanked it out if the VCR though it wasn't "good" enough (usually by reading the sync pulse, and refusing to play anything that was too fuzzy--it also made copy protection on tapes very effective, which may have been why it started being used). I'd guess that the problem is that you used an old VCR at the DZ, then brought it home to your new VCR. If you want to "fix" the tape for your home player, you might try running it through a sync generator to give it a good clean sync. Since you probably don't have one of those, you're going to be stuck either finding someone who does that kind of thing, or sending it to a commercial service that can "rescue" it--that ought to cost around 20 bucks.-- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Canuck278 0 #5 September 8, 2003 thanks dude...yes the vcr at the dz is old...however all were taped using the same vcr...how weird is that...i just don't get..time to start bashing electronics with a hammer Steve Therapy is expensive, popping bubble wrap is cheap. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pilotdave 0 #6 September 8, 2003 I had a similar problem getting some videos onto my computer. The tape would play fine on one VCR, but that one had no outputs (TV/VCR combo) so I used another VCR to hook up to my computer. Any slightly fuzzy part of the tape would give a blue screen. It didn't always happen at the same part of the tape though. Drove me nuts till it either worked long enough to get the footage I wanted or I gave up. Can't remember. Dave Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mr2mk1g 10 #7 September 8, 2003 check the number of heads - older VCR's have only 2 or 4 heads. Newer nicam ones generally have 6. These give better quality picture and sound and on older tapes that may be losing some of their quality a 6 head VCR will be able to read the tape better (giving a picture) than a 4 head VCR. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
