What would cause no picture but sound on a VCR?

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Sniper82

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Have a GE VG2058 VCR that plays sound but has a scrambled picture. I think the tracking might be off but not sure. I lost the remote so I ain't sure if I can fix the tracking without it.

The channel buttons are also the tracking buttons but they do nothing when a movie is playing. Any ideas?
 
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morkinva

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Maybe some crap on the video heads - put in some tape you don't care about and play it start to finish, more than once if necessary
 
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smp

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Originally posted by: morkinva
Maybe some crap on the video heads - put in some tape you don't care about and play it start to finish, more than once if necessary
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or you could just use a head cleaning tape and do it in a fraction of the time.

 
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Sniper82

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The video jacks are fine. I get the normal blue screen when the VCR is powered on. Unless theres a different signal activated through the video jacks once a tape is it. I tried cleaning the heads without any luck. How does one adjust the tracking on one?

SMP what do you mean I don't have the right codec installed. How do you install a codec on a VCR LOL.

I get a unuseable sign through video mode on my TV. I been running it through the coax.
 
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Sniper82

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I got it hooked up right. Only time the screen scrambles is when I hit the play button and the movie plays. The rest of the VCR signal when powered on is ok.
 
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notfred

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if the tape is copied, or you're running it through a DVD player or some other device between the VCR and the TV, it's probably macrovision.
 
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Sniper82

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every tape recorded and not recorded. The VCR is hooked straight to the TV. I wouldnt bother with it but the little ones have alot of VCR tapes.

Older VCR

 
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Reel

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When I hooked up my VCR using only coax, I screwed up and connected the ins + outs wrong. This caused the channel pass through to work correctly from the wall jack with the VCR off but when I projected a picture from the VCR (programming it or video tape or cable channels through the VCR) it gave sound but no picture. That is why I suggested that you try switching the cables.
 
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Sniper82

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You mean switching to a different coax cable or try a/v output on the VCR? I've tried both a/v and coax.

a/v output gives me no signal when playing a tape but sound and the coax just gives me scrambled picture and no sound. I have tried different coax cables.

woohoo how does one know if the head is clogged and how does one unlcogg it?
 
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KC5AV

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If you have tried both coax and rca cables, it is most likely a problem with the heads. You might try a head cleaner, but in the end it will probably be cheaper and easier to replace the vcr than worry with repair. I used to do support for Phillips-Magnavox, and we often had this question come up. It's a real bummer, but these days a vcr is pretty much disposable.
 
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CraigRT

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Originally posted by: Alphazero
Originally posted by: notfred
Originally posted by: smp
You don't have the right codec installed.
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haha, yeah, download divx :)
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You guys are morons. You have to check the drivers first! :)
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what if the hardware acceleration isnt even powerful enough?!?
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:p:D
 
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Reel

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What happened to mine was I misread it. I had the coax from the wall going into the coax out on the vcr and I had the coax to the tv connected to the coax in on the vcr. I switched the cables around on the vcr and it worked then.
 
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