Posted by Pat Horridge on 10/03/05 11:33

"Steve Guidry" <steveguidry@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:85R%e.7026$vw6.3709@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net...
>I recently shot a VHS tape (no sneers, please) (grin) with my ooooolllld
> camera and its JVC RS-s411 dockable. The room was hot and humid.
>
> I didn't get a dew indication or shutoff, but periodically the camera was
> surging and then re-locking. This was accompanied by a picture breakup
> and
> re-lock on the video coming out of the video confidence spigot. This is a
> new one for me . . .
>
> Is there any way to defeat the auto-sensing speed control of a playback
> deck
> to minimize this problem ? (I'd like to play it at the same constant
> speed,
> and ignore the speed fluctuations on the playback.) And is this likely to
> accomplish a smooth playback ?
>
> Do you have any other suggestions ?
>
>
> --
> Steve Guidry

The problem is that during record if the servo lost lock and speeded up or
slowed down the rate of frames captured on the tape would now be wrong.
Playing back at a contant rate probably wouldn't help.
In fact the video heads writing onto tape during those wrong tape speeds
will be very difficult if not impossible to re-create at playback.

Sounds like a servo fault on the VTR section to me.

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