New toy broke!
May. 14th, 2006 10:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xenithPicked 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.
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.
