Snow across the image (VCRs fault)

[Hajker]

I got a Samsung DVD-VR355. Now when I'm testing it, I found out that it has diagonal snow running across the image. This is not tape fault, because other vcrs don't have this problem with the same tape; and all tapes have white snow on this vcr.

What's wrong with this thing? I cleaned the heads after this, but no change.


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Edit: Just noticed the dots are only in the top field. The bottom field is clean..

[dellsam34]

Possible dirty, worn out or chipped head/heads. Sometimes the usual way of cleaning heads recommended for newbies can't get the gunk out of the heads so more advanced and carfull methods are needed.

[oln]

Or possibly either a grounding issue or bad capacitors somewhere.

[johns0]

Or a tracking issue.