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Old 22nd Feb 2021, 5:52 pm   #21
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Default Re: Philips N1500 - can it be tricked?

af024, thanks for your message. I will try altering the belt position as you’ve described and get back with the result.
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I've found that these machines were not brilliant at synching up material recorded by other machines. Have you tried to record something on your machine and playing that back?
Haven’t tried making a test recording on this machine yet, but will do so when it’s certain I won’t be recording over any old footage.
The picture disturbance is exactly the same as I’ve experienced sometimes on old Beta tapes whilst playing in a Sanyo VTC5150, which was cured by altering specific variable resistors on that machine’s servo board just for those tapes, and can see that there are also variable resistors on the the servo board in the N1500. If only it were that simple!

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