VHS artefacts

[mattew]

Hi,

I have old family tapes from my friend, and they have some issues. I am playing them with a Panasonic NV-HS860 with TBC and 3D DNR on. There is almost no difference when I play the tapes with these features turned off. I uploaded a short sample video with this problem. My own family tapes are recorded on different old Panasonic VHS recorder and are played without problems. When this happens, the timer on the VCR is just spinning, as shown in the other video I attached to this post.

Is there something I can do to prevent this? Which way are the tapes broken? I tried rewinding them to the end and back to the start before recording.

[davexnet]

Damaged tape (lower edge) or dirty control track head