weird colors. VCR gone bad?

[damnidunno]

I never use the VCR. its actually been under my bed for the last year or so.

I recently bought the Roxio easy vcr to dvd kit, and got the vcr player out to transfer the tapes to dvd, but the quality is so horrible.

I attempted to do this a few years ago with my pctv pro card. The quality was much better then, and was using the same vcr.

I thought maybe it was this new capture device so i hooked the vcr up to my tv, and it was there. so nope.

There seems to be weird red,blue, and green spots all over the video now. It's not the tape because it shows it on all of them.

Here are some examples:
This was the same tape a year ago on the same vcr:


and now:


I switched around the component cables, and it didnt work. they show fine with the dvb player.

I tried manually cleaning the heads on the vcr, which didnt help either.

Right now i have some random tape in it, and trying to play it all the way through it, so maybe that'll help clean it some how.

Does anyone know whats going on? And how to fix it? Or do i just need to give up on this vcr (had it since 1996).

I don't know hwere to buy one at these days, ha.

[lordsmurf]

Chroma noise.
See this: http://www.digitalfaq.com/forum/showthread.php/vhs-chroma-flaws-565.html