I was able to get my hands on a Panasonic AG-1980 and for the most part it seems to be working OK except I've noticed some distortion during playback. When the playing a video in Virtual Dub the bottom of the screen has some horizontal lines. It doesn't matter what tape I play old, newer, home video, commercial the distortion is always there.
So I was wonder if anyone had a good solution for this. I'm guessing the VCR needs cleaning or the heads need to be realigned...or something. I've never cleaned or repaired a VCR before.
Attached is a screen shot. You'll notice at the bottom of the video there are some video lines that are offset to the right.
Thanks for your input!

		
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	Overscan....it won't be on the final video. 
 
 Consider it a way the video and the VCR talk to one another, nothing else.
 
 You won't see it in a DVD authoring program's output (as a DVD).;/ l ,[____], Its a Jeep thing,
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