My family has a collection of home-recorded VCR tapes dating back to 1990. Many of them are starting to have issues. Everything from juggling picture to sound distortation to bad tracking.
Was watching an original 1990 Desert Storm News Hour when the tape starting to shake. In the beginning of the film is a rare TV clip of me at age 9 in a veterans cemetery. The darn picture now
begins with jiggling and sound distortation. Also, we have 4 tapes from the 1980s that run okay, then we have tapes as new as 1998 that are a basket case. I just don't get it. Can someone please
add to this thread as a scientific discussion about why these tapes do what they do and how they should be stored? I am going to be buying a DVD converter as soon as possible to copy this stuff.