Your parents are visiting for the weekend. After a pleasant dinner, everyone gathers in the family room for a video home movie. You turn on your TV and VCR, pop the cassette into the slot and hit the ...

Any time I get three questions on the same topic in one week, I know it must deserve a little attention. The topic? Head cleaners, and whether and how not to use them. S.J.R. from a western suburb put ...

If, when you last punched ”play” on your video cassette recorder, Rambo turned into a fibrillating mess, don`t despair. Your machine may be suffering from Very Cruddy Recording disease, and a remedy ...

Cleaning a VCR has been widely regarded as a matter of Catch-22. If you didn’t clean the VCR, dust and accumulated sheddings from the tape would take their toll. If you did, the cleaning action itself ...