Panasonic top-loader VCR Issues

[vortalexfan]

Originally Posted by redk9258

Maybe it's a cold solder joint or crappy connection somewhere. By moving that switch you are causing vibration. I'd poke around with a wooden chopstick or something.

I would think that the composite signal is sent to the RF modulator.

I'm not sure what's going on with it, I know that if I take the audio board and the servo board and the Chroma/Luma boards off the VCR fiddle with the wire cable connections and then put the VCR back together the video will go back to normal but then if I do a Forward or Reverse Search then the video goes bonkers again for no apparent reason, and I'm not sure what's going on with it and why it does that. I have a screen cap of what it looks like when the video is going beserk.

The Video when its working properly gives a rock solid still image (pause) and the picture during playback is really clear and probably the best picture I have seen on an old 4-head VCR.

Also apparently the SP mode is only mostly fixed because while it puts out a picture and audio that is normal sounding and looking you can still kind of hear a little bit of a "drag" in the speech but just barely and then there are lines that go across the screen periodically, its acting almost like the video is paused and you're doing a frame search, but its actually playing and has audio.

If any of this makes any sense to you.