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 ...

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 ...

Dear Rich: I`ve watched many kinds of videos on my VCR and we`ve enjoyed a good relationship. Lately I`ve toyed with the thought of cleaning its heads, but that sounds a little kinky. What can I do to ...

Cleaning VCR heads is a dirty job, and everybody’s had to do it…but not any more. Each technology has its own Achilles Heel; for the VCR, it’s the tiny gap that’s part of recording and playback heads.