Your parents are visiting for the weekend. After a pleasant dinner, everyone gathers in the family room for a video home movie. You turn on your TV and VCR, pop the cassette into the slot and hit the ...

The build-up of oxidants on your tape heads may result in image degradation and a reduction of performance from your videocassette recorder Just insert this into your VCR like an ordinary VHS ...

Q–I would appreciate your advice on do-it-yourself demagnetization of VCR heads. When picture and sound deterioration occurred with my 4-year-old VCR, I used a wet-method video head cleaner tape with ...

Like any other performer, a VCR occasionally has an off night. But luckily, the most common kind of indisposition can be prevented, or quickly cured, by a bit of elementary maintenance. If you use ...