Cleaning VHS Recorder Heads

[meow2222]

just pick off all the lint afterwards

NT

[eastender]

We've got three VHS players, one not too old, and I tried to get some old home video onto my Mac recently using a capture device that Lidl had on offer. The results are very poor on all players - I think at some point the tape just degrades. More to the point I think is software that can clean up the digital capture but I guess that you can't put lipstick on this pig.

E.

[meow2222]

If you upload a short clip somewhere, someone might have an idea whats not working right

NT

[dennis]

Are you sure its degraded? VHS was very poor in the first place and modern sets probably show it more. Even SVHS was worse than normal broadcast stuff by a big margin.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

And if home movies, even worse. Due to crappy cameras.

In general, people have poor memories of just how 'bad' home recorded stuff could sound and or look. I do a fair bit of transferring 1/4" tapes to digital, and although even early pro ones can be pretty good, the average domestic stuff not. Tape was expensive, so many used the lowest speed. But since it was a novelty, better than nothing. But don't realise what sounded ok by the standards of the time may well not do now.

[meow2222]

Yup. Same applies to several things. Bond Bug anyone?

NT

[charles]

but at least it played back teletext.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

My Philips V2000 did too. ;-)