picture 'bowing' to the right?

[Chad Hauris]

I have found that most home-recorded tapes will play back pretty well with hardly any bending on tube sets but all bets are off with Macrovision-encoded prerecorded tapes.
Also some DVD's will play completely straight but some will exhibit the bending.

[frenchy]

I have some Honeymooners Lost Episode tapes that play borderline on some of my tvs (can tweak out most of the bending by fiddling with the horiz hold right up to the edge of it losing hold), but on my CTC-16 they are just unwatchable no matter what, totally distorted all to hell. Also if you are playing a home recorded tape on a different machine than you recorded it on, that can make a difference sometimes.

[southernguy]

I haven't had to much of a problem with the bending at the top on my tube sets. Some VCR's may be worse than others making the problem happen. Two years ago I bought a DVD recorder and ran my JVC Hi-Fi VCR through it and it fixed the bending problem on all my sets that had issues with it. It also fixed the left over trace lines that you get at the top of the screen with watching local tv or cable channels. I think most DVD recorders resets the Horizontal Sync line with a clean one whenever you run a signal though it wheather it be off air broadcast, Cable or from another VCR.
Also if you subscribe to one of the Satellite Companys you won't have the problems with the left over trace lines or bending. When I had cable I noticed some horrible bending on some of the local commercials that interuped the main commercials on the cable networks.

[blue_lateral]

What kind of a DVD recorder was that?

John

[southernguy]

I have 2 DVD recorders. Phillips "DVDR 75" and a LITEON "LVW-5005 DVD +/- RECORDER". They both put out a clean signal with the correct pulse.