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Old 05-14-2014, 04:26 PM
jlb2 jlb2 is offline
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Originally Posted by dr.ido View Post
An experiment that may help narrow things down - Try recording something on some "new" tape. Spool some tape from a blank VHS tape onto an empty reel. If you don't have any empty reels splice together a continous loop.
I'd strongly advise against doing that. Splicing a video tape is a pretty sure way to kill the heads of an EIAJ recorder. Also, VHS tape is really fragile for an EIAJ transport which has much more tape tension than a VHS transport.
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