Thanks for sharing! Absolute nightmare that sounds like!

Glad you enjoy it!

Well first off you don’t hand any priceless home movies over to minimum wage outlets like Walmart who then outsource it over to low bid, min wage companies like Yesvideo who do their work. You’re very lucky to have received it back, so count your blessings there. More than likely nobody even put it in a player because the company that does the work for Walmart is terrible and again pays min wage unskilled labor that don’t care and probably tried to put it in a vhs player and thought hmmm and handed it back with an excuse. OR their beta player was so filthy and worn they couldn’t get a picture off it and blame your tape vs repair and maintain their equipment. This is the massive systemic problem across the industry, lack of equipment maintenance and low wage, low skill staff and a consumer base that thinks this type of service with 40 year old media can be transferred flawlessly for $25 a tape. You ONLY hand priceless memories to pros with insanely amazing reviews and a KZfaq channel and are charging actual, real world rates to do this all correctly. Consumer ignorance is keeping the shady businesses afloat and putting the excellent ones out of business.

Cheers mate! 🍻

Appreciate it!

Yep!

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Audio that's on the tape is similar to FM broadcast, where you have mono(L+R),a pilot tone(To tell the machine tape contains stereo) and then multiplex is kinda like butterfly wings that pulse between Left & right so the machine can mathematically deduct from mono to recover the other channel and make up stereo audio that then goes out via RF,scart and composite. That's how the "Hi-Fi" sound works on the tape and depending on the condition of the tape or signal level of the audio will dictate whether VCR will fall back to mono(Mixed left & right) or remain stereo throughout the transfer process. However. digital 8 is completely PCM, it either works or it doesn't kinda similar to a digital radio that cuts in and out as you drive around town. ~Jason437.

Thanks for sharing your story! 80lb VTR those were the days! Def have to be OCD in this biz! The google reviews reflect that!

Yes and no. Ideally need to run through a multi standard.

Prob a defective laser, could be anything though, it’s a nightmare format.

@@gotmemories thanks for the reply.its kinda sad because the camera work perfectly but i can't record.pretty cool if i use it in 2024

Try on multiple players. Could be the player

Before that, need to understand what you have and the condition, shipping would be the least of the cost. Anything I get from S Asia, usually mold, sticky shed, nightmare.

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Soon!