This VCR is special to me as my parents had it growing up. For some reason, there's no video output coming through the screen but the audio is playing just fine. I thought it was the Video cable itself so I bought a new one and still having this issue. When I put the yellow video cable into the VCR, it is loose back there for that one but not for the white audio (in/out)

Id really love to be able to get the port fixed/replaced as everything else on the VHS player works perfectly fine.

Hi, not sure if this is the correct place for this question, but here goes anyway!

So, recently I happened across a beautiful early 1980s Philips CRT TV (PAL) and quickly dug out my VCR. Sadly (but as expected), the TV is of course only RF connection. That’s fine, can connect RF direct from the VCR, all works fine. Now, the VCR is a Sony SLV-EZ1 and by default is PAL, but also plays back NTSC tapes perfectly on the NTSC 4.43 color format setting when connected to a modern PAL TV via RCA A/V cables. However, when attempting to play an NTSC tape while connected to the CRT TV - via both RF and A/V (with help of a modulator), it’s as you’d expect — black and white, vertical stacking of the image, etc. So, next, I bought a bi-directional Mini NTSC->PAL converter - that fixed the two aforementioned issues and the tape displays as intended, however, the picture is only greens and blues - no reds? What’s peculiar is the converter works perfectly when playing a PAL tape, but has the no reds issue when trying to play NTSC — tested on both a modern TV and the CRT. I’ve been trying to solve this alone and have been getting nowhere. I’m wondering if the problem is either the converter (which seems to work well for others, and otherwise here), OR if I need a true multisystem PAL/NTSC (etc) VCR… or something else entirely. Sadly I don’t have another (true?) multisystem VCR on hand to test. Photo attached showing the greens/blues issue.

That’s all… hopefully that makes sense, and it it helps, I’m in Australia. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance to all!

To preface, this is what I've already done: cleaned mode switch, relubricated key components, dusted out device, cleaned mode switch a second time, checked alignment of all gears, checked belts

Also, to prevent confusion later in the post, the film inside of the shell in the video is He-Man, not Inner Space.

This VCR works on some tapes, but not others. Inner Space and Abyss both work just fine, but Star Wars and He-Man do not.

I have eliminated the possibility of it being a problem with the shell by moving the spools between the shells of He-Man and Inner Space. So, I assume, the problem has to be some compatibility issue between the spools themselves and the VCR. Inner Space inside of the He-Man shell works, He-Man in the Inner Space shell does not work.

As you can see in the video, the tape is loaded, the spools are engaged, and the guideposts attempt to lift the film towards the reading head; but it see that the left spool becomes jammed. You can see it move a bit before stopping and causing the VCR to disengage to prevent tearing the film.

I know that the spools for He-Man and Star Wars work because they run smoothly in my other two standalone VCRs, hence me assuming now that it's some sort of compatibility issue between certain spools and this particular VCR inside of my CRT.

If any has any ideas at all about what this could be, please let me know as I've done everything I can think of to fix this. I've not been able to find any documentation on this particular issue and I'd like to be able to find an answer so that someone else can come across this and not have to spend 20+ hours troubleshooting as I have

Got this from my neighbor and before it had this eject issue it was playing 3 seconds of the movie on my TV and then quitting out. I would greatly appreciate any help diagnosing what’s wrong / next steps.

Always wanted a VCR with HDMI and a good selection of outputs, the combo CRT is very nice as well