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Date Posted: 08:56:28 09/14/02 Sat
Author: axel
Author Host/IP: ATuileries-102-1-1-62.abo.wanadoo.fr / 193.252.27.62
Subject: Re: VR20D problem when re/winding s-vhs tapes
In reply to: Benoit (France) 's message, "Re: VR20D problem when re/winding s-vhs tapes" on 23:23:11 09/13/02 Fri

[which progressively slows down]
The tape manager search doesn't progressively slow down, that is, not quite ; it only sounds softer because it moves on smaller scales:

Markers on a DVHS can only be identified if they are separated by a minimum of 20 s. (STD speed) or 40 s. (LS3).
What the tape manager does is to try and confirm that the start of a program is really... the start of a program.
It will thus go back and forth around the marker, sort of circling around it... (pessimists would say: messing around with the tape)
While doing so, the tape intermittently is on the heads so that the deck can read the sync/markers track - just as if you were doing the scan/search thing...

My advice is: keep the 'time code' of all start IDs on the tape box (or use the tape manager for this), while ensuring that each program is preceded and followed by a 2 minute blank.
Then use the regular ff/rew to locate a program and you'll always stop somewhere in the blank area, thus not damaging the program if your deck is too aggressive in its movements...

But if your tapes are torn, it's bad enough for you to bring your VR20 to a service station!

Scan/search function will always alter the heads.
And, as far as eternally is concerned, I'm not sure Philips will keep spare parts indefinitely - although they might be interchangeable with JVCs.
Since the format failed in Europe and Philips abandoned it anyway... not many units produced here probably equals not many spare parts in stock...

btw. what kind of S tapes are you using? It might be a bit 'fat' for your deck (ie. leave too much on the heads and capstans, as the otherwise very good TDK XP-Pro does)

(2nd generation of TurboDrive was indeed a great mechanism)
(email me if you want this continued en français)

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