Testing a used Panasonic AG-1980 - Screen Noise on TV

[nal]

OK - Got a used Panasonic AG-1980 in and am initially testing it out connected to my TV, a 10-tear-old standard CRT Sony.

1 - Have played two tapes - 1 - short commercially-produced intro tape that came with something I bought, and 2 - a tape recorded with my old Hitachi.

Tape #2 plays fine, but Tape #1 stops playing every few seconds. The cassette Tape #1 is in seems to be a cheapie and is a bit tight on loading due I think to a little unevenness in its construction. Could this cause the "stops playing" problem?



2 - Also, I notice screen noise and a dropoff in sound volume on my TV when in VCR Mode and no tape playing - noise consists of "swimming" lines, which can be on either diagnonal, almost horizontal, or almost vertical and can vary in intensity and sometimes disappear althogether.

Am using the same cables I have been using with my old Hitachi FX-623, which does not seem to have this screen noise problem.


Any thoughts on what might be causing the TV Screen noise problem are appreciated!

Cheers!
NAL

[geowharton]

For some TVs, there can be an interfeirence pattern if you have both s-video and composite video plugged in. That looks like a diagonal checkerboard.

I have also encountered radio interference from a local TV / radio that makes verticle wavey lines.

[nal]

geowharton - thanks for your reply!

Both the Panasonic and the Hitachi were connected using the same cable config. So I don't think the kind of interference you describe would be the problem.

Cheers!