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Hey guys,
Every day here on ABC Family, the 'Wonder Years' comes on. I always enjoyed the show, but it comes on when I'm in class so I decide to tape it every day. I tape it on my third floor VCR/TV combo and play it back to watch it downstairs on my TV that just has a VCR connected to it.
Here's the odd thing: I'll be watching, say, two episodes in a row, and it works fine. But then the next episode will start, and there's NO sound whatsoever! The picture is perfect, but no sound comes through. And I can hear the speakers crackling as if there SHOULD be sound but there just isn't.
The weird thing is that when I take it back upstairs to my TV/VCR combo and pop in the tape, ALL the episodes play perfectly with sound. But downstairs in my room where it's more comfortable to be, it seems that some on episodes the sound will come through, and some episodes there's just no sound. I can't logically figure this out. I don't think it's the VCR in my room, because I've watched other shows I've recorded on the VCR/TV combo, and the sound works fine. I'm wondering if it could be from the network itself in how they play some of their episodes. I just don't know. It seems silly for that to be the problem, though.
Can anyone help here? Anyone ever see a problem like this and can you help me figure out a way to fix it? Thanks in advance.
It sounds like the heads may be mis-alighned on either the recording or the playback unit (you would need to try on a third one to narrow it down).
Can you tell me what the "heads" are?
They are the things that actually write and read the data from the tapes. Do you have another VCR to test with?
Every day here on ABC Family, the 'Wonder Years' comes on. I always enjoyed the show, but it comes on when I'm in class so I decide to tape it every day. I tape it on my third floor VCR/TV combo and play it back to watch it downstairs on my TV that just has a VCR connected to it.
Here's the odd thing: I'll be watching, say, two episodes in a row, and it works fine. But then the next episode will start, and there's NO sound whatsoever! The picture is perfect, but no sound comes through. And I can hear the speakers crackling as if there SHOULD be sound but there just isn't.
The weird thing is that when I take it back upstairs to my TV/VCR combo and pop in the tape, ALL the episodes play perfectly with sound. But downstairs in my room where it's more comfortable to be, it seems that some on episodes the sound will come through, and some episodes there's just no sound. I can't logically figure this out. I don't think it's the VCR in my room, because I've watched other shows I've recorded on the VCR/TV combo, and the sound works fine. I'm wondering if it could be from the network itself in how they play some of their episodes. I just don't know. It seems silly for that to be the problem, though.
Can anyone help here? Anyone ever see a problem like this and can you help me figure out a way to fix it? Thanks in advance.
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It sounds like the heads may be mis-alighned on either the recording or the playback unit (you would need to try on a third one to narrow it down).
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Can you tell me what the "heads" are?
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They are the things that actually write and read the data from the tapes. Do you have another VCR to test with?
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