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From: nessus@nsc.UUCP (Kchula-Rrit)
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Re: Picture distortion on playback
Message-ID: <2990@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 17-Jul-85 11:36:23 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 17 11:36:23 1985
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> I am having a problem with playing back pre-recorded tapes of movies
> from one particular company.  I have bought blank video tapes and
> recorded them; they play back fine, along with all of the other prerecorded
> tapes I have gotten, except for most, but not all, of the movies I have
> gotten from this one particular company.  When one of the troublesome
> tapes is played, a small strip across the top of the screen is distorted--
> the picture bends sharply to the left:
> 
> ------------------
> |\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\| <-- bent sharply to the left
> ||||||||||||||||||
> |||||||||||||||||| <-- normal
> ||||||||||||||||||
> ------------------
> 
> The effect sometimes is only barely noticeable at the very top; other
> times it creeps down from the top until about 1/4 of the screen is
> affected.
> 
> ...
> 
> Mark Modig
> ihnp4!sftri!mom
> 
> P.S.  I have a Panasonic PV-1630 VHS VCR

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     A few months ago, I rented a tape that did this on my G.E. VCR.  I
     "re-wound" the tape then "fast-forwarded" it and let it auto-rewind.  This
     cured the problem.

					From the alter ego of--

					Kchula-Rrit