For those of you like me who remember the cave man days, help me troubleshoot my Neolithic technology.
I have a Zenith CRT tube TV and a VCR (VHS, natch) in my garage pain cave, in front of my bike trainer. (That's right, no high-falutin' Zwift for me!).
I only use it for watching videos, and only while training. The last time I used it was in the fall (Waterworld never fails to delight!), and it worked fine. I fired it up for the first time since then over the weekend, and the picture is crappy - it's snowy, like if I had bad reception of an OTA signal in the analog days. I tried a few different tapes, but got the same results from all of them.
There are no tracking controls on the VCR, and the issues with the image are not what I associate with tracking issues anyway. It also says it's "self-cleaning" so maybe dirty heads are not an issue. There are some PC speakers on top of the TV, but what I'm seeing doesn't look like magnetic interference, and PC speakers should be shielded anyway -- I'm pretty sure they were there last time I used the TV.
The TV only has a coax jack (and maybe an antenna hookup, I'd need to look again). I tightened the coax inputs on the VCR and TV, no dice. Not sure if the problem is the TV or the VCR, but I don't have anything else that puts out coax.
Any suggestions, or should I just pay to junk this stuff and switch to a tablet and external speakers?
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