How can I fix my Emerson vcr from picture rolling?
The picture on my vcr rolls sometimes in playback. Now it is recording the same way, and it won't play back without rolling on other vcrs. I've tried a tape head cleaner, but it didn't help. Also I have tried the tracking, but that doesn't work. Can you tell me anything that I can do to fix it?
I had a similar problem with a JVC VHR. The shop guy said that if I recorded in EP (six hours), the tape gets stretched out and causes the rolling effect. There wasn't anything he could do to fix it--something in the machine heats the tape and the stretch becomes permanent. As long as I tape in two-hour increments, i.e., SP, I have no problem. If I really want to tape something longer than two hours, I use a new tape and don't reuse it for anything I really want to see. Maybe your Emerson is doing the same thing.
maggie
October 2005
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