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I used to recommend rewinders to people who owned VCRs that left the tape loaded around the cylinder for fast rewind like 99% Betas and some later VHS. Rewinders are a heck of a lot cheaper than head drum assemblies, idlers, belts, and the labor involved.
Me personally, I always tried to leave tapes in the played tail-out position, same as audio tapes. Tape is smoothly tensioned and wound on the takeup reel that way. Then of course you rewind it first to play it.
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