Cleaning Noisy tape in miniDV and VHS

JaimeCraig — Sat, 31 Oct 2020 11:26:26 GMT

I played back some miniDV tapes and found that some portion of the video had disturbance and mosaic type lines. I read it because the tapes may be old. How can this be cleaned or solved?

Also for the VHS tapes, I don't have a player to view them and so don't know if they work good(~25 years old). Is there any maintenance tips or any particular spot in the tape to be cleaned?

Thanks

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Peter_S. — Sun, 01 Nov 2020 09:46:28 GMT

Hi JaimeCraig,

The problem is that the tapes become magnetized during longer storage. Therefore it is recommended to rewind the tapes once in a while. Unfortunately, the effect cannot be reversed and cleaning is of no use in this case.

Cheers

Peter

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