New toy broke!

[xenith]

Picked up a new toy at the market today. A video player! Yah, now I can watch the videos I have.

When I finally got home tonight, I plugged it all in, hit play and there was a picture. (Pauses to remember old days when one had to spend ages with the tuning knows getting the TV to spit out the picture, I like my TV.) Hit rewind. It goes for a second and stops. So it's at the end. Hit fast forward. It goes for a second and stops. Hmm. Play. Same thing.

Can't say bad words because mother is sitting on the couch.

It won't eject. It switches off a couple of seconds after being turned on.

....

Once mother leaves, I ponder VCR repair websites. I manage to coax the tape halfway out by hitting eject as soon as I turn on the power. Remove case. Remove tape. Talk nicely to VCR. Find an old tape that I don't care about and spend some time hitting rewind, play & fast forward. Things happen!

Hook VCR up to TV again and it works!!

Picture quality dubious but a good clean should fix most problems.

Comments

[the-aspie-zoo.livejournal.com]

=8-}


Well, at least it sounds like you're making it behave mostly. Silly gizmo. Hope the cleaning does the trick.

[monissaw.livejournal.com]

Once I get around to it :)

[the-aspie-zoo.livejournal.com]

sounds like around here. Lots of things on my When I Get Around To It list ;)