Clean the heads, but please don’t use a head clean tape ( in the bizzare offchance you find one) those things were sandpaper, you want a light solvent.
Copying movies from the telly. You could buy blank tapes and record from a camcorder or copy from a telly, either by cable or just pointing the camera at the screen.
If they taped shows or movies off the telly there will be old ads
( first show I saw on tape was Blake 7 , I borrowed a player from the library at school, it was 1978. )
You might also need to use a tape head cleaner first .
Clean the heads, but please don’t use a head clean tape ( in the bizzare offchance you find one) those things were sandpaper, you want a light solvent.
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Copying movies from the telly. You could buy blank tapes and record from a camcorder or copy from a telly, either by cable or just pointing the camera at the screen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape_head_cleaner