Absolutely brilliant repair, The mode switch really is a difficult one to get to on these units, it takes a Gifted electronic engineer as you truly are to get this repair done, Incredible film giving true insight and techniques to carry out such a difficult repair procedure, Excellent thank you.
Great repair, I really enjoy watching you repair these items. I used to go to my local hi fi store when I was young and watch the guys in there repair stuff.
I was sooooo happy that I got out when I did. Now I don't have to do this. When I did it for a living I didn't have a choice. Now I can say toss that piece of crap in the trash and buy a new one. I do it now for fun, and to educate others on how to fix things. This is more enjoyable now as I am not under pressure to do this. I do it on my terms. That's why this VCR I found 2 years ago went into storage because 2 years ago I wasn't motivated to do it. The only reason I revisited this was after the first one, the mode switch causing the fault I was thinking that this one may have the same fault as the symptom was similar and it was. So now I have another machine for archiving tapes and I will be using this one.
You have just totally amazed me, now I hope I can get mine fixed so I can watch all my VHS tapes from my grandchildren when they were small. Hopefully I can learn how to record on to DVD from VHS thank you so much
Thank you for your great videos for those devices. It enabled me to repair one myself i salvaged from a pile of trash of my former neighbours. Now it runs very well. My first thought was: "Okay this is too complicated for me, i'm just gonna trash it." But then after watching a few minutes of your video i dived into it.... and did it! :D Greetings from germany!
Noooo way, my first thought was the "original" one developed another fault! You're a glutton for punishment man, and i envy your ability to store projects for "a few years" as-per-description without incurring major hassle about the damn mess!!! Saying that, I don't think I'd have rescued one of these combos in the first place.
26:16 that's what she said ;) Isn't it always the way the second time round on a job, you've just done one so this oughta be a cakewalk right? Should take half the time, but it always seems to throw up unexpected twists to make the second one take as long if not longer than the first!
As always great in depth video. You can dub from VHS to DVD if you go though the settings menu, by default the dubbing mode is VHS to DVD. If you change from the dubbing mode to DVD to VHS you should be able to dub back to VHS. Great signal processing on these combos however prone to crap out easily.
Love your vids. I wish I had had this video a couple of years ago when I was repairing the same Toshiba VCR/DVD combo. I couldn't believe what a nightmare it was to get to the mode switch. When I saw how much you disliked working on this machine...it actually made me feel in hindsight that I had really accomplished something... and yes the machine is still running fine.
Thank you for this video, I have a sanyo and I went to play some old video tapes that was my grandson when he was a baby which is now 30 years old. The VCR tape would go in and it would wrap around the head then the VCR would just shut down. So I'm going to try to do what I've watched you do and see if I can maybe make it work again sometimes I'm pretty good at electronics most of the time no thank you so much for the video. I did run a video tape which makes me sick.
It is the root cause of so many faults. The optical mode detection sensors caused as much if not more trouble. They would go intermittent as the light level from the LED started to drop.
Soon I will dig into reel to reel. I only work in the shop on my days off the regular job so mid week on my days off. I work 10 hour days at the fone company so by the time I am done it is dinner time and then time to relax. 4 day work week is great. I highly recommend it to anyone that can do it.
The stuff I recorded was my own video so no copy control. Will play with that deck more when I install it in my transfer gear. My panasonic dvd / hdd recorder has died so I will put this one it its place and service the panasonic one of these days.
At 15:09 when the cassette mechanism won't load, I can't figure out what you did to fix this? Was it something mechanical, or from cleaning the mode switch? Thanks!
I was just pushing the lock levers to allow it to load without a tape (the tape pushes these lock levers when you push in a cassette. It was the mode switch that was the fault on this, and I use this machine constantly to archive tapes now. Have done about 200 tapes on this machine since I fixed this one.
I have a sanyo VWM-800. Worked fine . Later after a storm went thru, the house power went down 1/2 way. The next day when I went to use it, all it does is flash. The whole front of vcr all led lights flash? Nothing works :(
I wonder where the dirt ,corrosion in the mode switch comes from. It’s not a dusty area but mode switch failures was common on most vcr designs over the yrs....
I have the same combo I don’t use the VCR because it will play for record for 20 seconds then kick out the tape and power off on its own I am not very technically gifted to know how to fix it but I do know the intake fan likes to eventually put a coating of dust all over the VCR components even when I cleaned it it still does the same thing I am most wish they completely sealed off the VCR from the DVD side.
I thought you loved pain/torture when you showed another tosh :) It must of stressed you out a lot originally, i understand you not wanting to bother with it but you won again :-D. I do understand the lack of interest in some repairs, i've left electronics standing because i just didn't have the interest/drive to bother with it. i've also had things that i could not figure out and on another day i've took a different angle of attack and fixed the dam thing.
That happens all the time. I start on something and get frustrated with it, then put it away picking it up months or years later and solving the mystery. In this case the first time down the road the drum and capstan motor was dead so I was thinking power problem. Then I found a disconnected plug which suggested that someone else had been in there, and it may have been cold or hot, and I didn't feel like continuing, or I had some paid work to do so I stuck it aside for a rainy day. I get the twin in, and by fluke it has the same fault. Capstan and drum dead. Then the drum started and the capstan started turning backwards. That symptom suggested mode switch, as I have seen weird problems caused by it so many times. Sure enough the mode switch was the root cause on both units.
I think i may of said this before but i had a possesed vcr that would play a tape fine but it would suddenly decide to jump into forward fast for no reason. I found it comical, the machine was bored with the film :-D Yup it was the mode switch, it was such an odd effect. After that i cleaned every one, just to make sure. No logic failures after that.
Summer is coming. My Harley is calling my name and with my new schedule at work I will have 3 days off in a row in the middle of the week every week. I see some nice rides this year.
I have a very similar (2008 model) Toshiba combo. I tried connecting it to a new tv that only has HDMI input ports and composite inputs... it does not, as far as I can determine, have the yellow video jack... therefore, I can only get the dvd to work. Any suggestions would be extremely helpful... thanks in advance
Hello. I have a VHS/DVD Recorder Toshiba , model DVR620KU. In my case, the lights started blinking and nothing works. Neither the tape player nor the DVD palyer will eject. Do you have any idea what the problem may be? Thank You
I've got the same, or similar, issues. When I plug mine in, the power light just blinks on and off, but it won't turn on. I was using mine to convert old VHS home movies & other projects & it was very useful. Don't want to fork over $ to have someone else do them or by a replacement. (assuming I could find one)
Thanks for the video. Someone gave me one of these, there's still less then 25 hours on it, (nothing wrong). I can say for sure it's not the worst DVD recorder I've used; but mine has a slightly funky uneven black recording level that I wish also was lower. But at least all the features I tried seemed to work and its own firm ware doesn't crash, and it doesn't write discs that glitch or crash as far as I've seen (like those hilariously awful tru-tech machines do). I want to know if it's using Y/C between the tape and disc.
The toshiba dvd recorders I have (I have 3 nor counting this one) record some of the best video quality I have seen especially at the lower but rate modes.
No you can NOT dub copy protected disks. You can of you plug another vcr in and run through a tbc or macro scrubber first. I put this one is service in my studio and there are other limitations. For example the hdmi only output the dvd not the VCR. So to view vhs tapes it must be connected by composite as well as hdmi. Naturally the DVD player will also output from composite. If you play a tape, the hdmi and component outputs continue to show the tuner video unless you put in a disk and hit dub. Then and only then does the video from the VHS show through. Even with that limitation though it allows me to remove 1 piece of equipment from my office. It will be well used.
I have the exact mode which has worked fine since I bought in 2009, but when I went to copy some old VHS Christmas movie favourites to DVD, "A Miracle on 34th Street" creating a Nightmare Before Christmas as the VHS tape stopped almost immediately and I had to pull out the tape and the tape snapped. Now I get an "L7" code on the VCR window of the unit and cannot find what this means. I lost original manual and the 2-page one I found on line has no troubleshooting codes. Also tried just "taping" to a blank DVD something from my cable unit I had recorded and unit tells me "can't record to DVD" (it was a Memorex DVD+R DL). I have no idea what KIND of blank DVD to buy that would work. Thanks for any assistance or if you can direct me to a site that has this info.
Likely the mode switch needs to be cleaned. They all go bad I have three at all three of them needed it. Dvr-7 does not record to dual layer discs. It supports DVD-R, dvd-rw, dvd+r and DVD+RW. It does not support DVD+R DL.
@@muskokadave3508 I show how it is done on at least 2 videos showing the procedure. It is quite involved but not hard to do. I think I did one in about 15 minutes.
I’d love one. Even though it’s got issues. It’s got HiFi Stereo VCR recorder AND DVD Recorder. It could only be better if it was a BluRay burner. The one I’ve got, also a Toshiba is a DVD Recorder only. It’s a nice one, tuner-less. But it does it’s job well.
I have a bluray burner. In my pc. In all the time I have had it I have burned a handful of discs. Great for backup of music library as most bd players will play mp3 on a bd disk and 25 gig disk will hold thousands of tracks.
@@12voltvids Is your blu-ray burner an LG, i have some that can play HD DVD discs and also Blu-Ray discs as well. since the HD DVD is obsolete. These are worth having if you have the older HD DVD discs and can play Blu-Ray discs as well.
@@speedyboishan87 Yes it is an lg. Dont know if it has HD-DVD or not because I have no HD-DVD disks. I knew that format would be the betamax of disks and did not buy into it and even told people that did buy in that they just bought a beta.
Yes it has an analog tuner and av inputs. You can connect your converter box into it and record tv channels onto dvd r or re and dvd+r and +rw discs as well as record on tape. Copy VHS to DVD and dvd to VHS on non copy protected content.
HI, 12voltvids: I have a VHS/DVD Recorder Toshiba ,model DVR620KU and it has this problem: after 6 seconds of play, the VCR/VHS unit suddenly stops and,great thing,it turns itself off;then,when I fire it up (turn it on) again,the tape ejects.
I have a Toshiba DVD recorder Model D-R410 that starts to load then stops then starts again and continues like this but never loads I'm a wits end. Any one have any ideas as to the problem?
@@austinthevhsvideogamelover5265 That late? I figured they would be gone before that. I figured this 2010 unit would have been one of the last ones made.
These is not much I can do with these. Unless it is something like a power supply issue. If they aren't burning disks correctly it is usually the laser and I have no access to parts or service data.
@@12voltvids what happened is the cable connector was too tight and when I took the cable off the little Barrel that it screws into came out of the back of the machine I need something like that repaired
Hi Dave, you are either a glutton for punishment....or a MAN on a MISSION. I have an old Samsung DVD-V5500 which does not play DVD videos. It will play CD's and tapes OK. Is it a def. dual laser or do the disc players also have a MODE switch ? Thanks J K
@@jeremiefaucher-goulet3365 I don't. I don't give a crap about anything. Don't come to me looking for sympathy because you won't get it. One of my former co workers used to get wound up about everything. He was pissed at the company, at the boss, at the metrics, anout the pressure of he job, and pressure of his family life. Poor bastard dropped dead last June at the young age of 51. I don't get wound up. If I come across on camera like I am, it is only an act. I treat everyone with the same respect and let them stand on their own feet. I will help pretty much anyone with a problem or project, but I don't get emotionally involved. Only with my immediate family for for anyone else, I steer clear, and I steer even clearer of politics and religion.
I have the same model that doesn't rewind or fast forward VHS. Based on this video th-cam.com/video/Eevo1HExRIw/w-d-xo.html and one of the comments suggest, replacing the motor belt will fix the problem. However, as I watch your video, it looks like it's very difficult to replace the belt on this device. Is it even possible to replace the belt?
@@12voltvids Thanks for your reply. The strange thing happened when I was trying to fix it. After taking the top off, I gave one more try playing a vhs, and voila it worked this time. All I did was spinning those two knobs that rewind and fast forward vhs with my fingers. It's really nice that I don't need to go too far to fix it, but at the same time, it makes me worry that the same problem would happen again? My only guess is maybe those things were stuck since they haven't been used for quiet a while? Is it even possible? Thanks.
Absolutely brilliant repair, The mode switch really is a difficult one to get to on these units, it takes a Gifted electronic engineer as you truly are to get this repair done, Incredible film giving true insight and techniques to carry out such a difficult repair procedure, Excellent thank you.
I use this machine almost every day to archive tapes.
Wow! Two VCR repair videos in a week! Is today my lucky day?
Great repair, I really enjoy watching you repair these items. I used to go to my local hi fi store when I was young and watch the guys in there repair stuff.
Well, we also remember (yesterday) that you said you were so happy that you got out of that repair business a long time ago . . . . . .😊
I was sooooo happy that I got out when I did. Now I don't have to do this. When I did it for a living I didn't have a choice. Now I can say toss that piece of crap in the trash and buy a new one. I do it now for fun, and to educate others on how to fix things. This is more enjoyable now as I am not under pressure to do this. I do it on my terms. That's why this VCR I found 2 years ago went into storage because 2 years ago I wasn't motivated to do it. The only reason I revisited this was after the first one, the mode switch causing the fault I was thinking that this one may have the same fault as the symptom was similar and it was. So now I have another machine for archiving tapes and I will be using this one.
Whoever disliked this video probably owns an LG DVD recorder/VCR combo and those _ARE_ a pain to repair.
You have just totally amazed me, now I hope I can get mine fixed so I can watch all my VHS tapes from my grandchildren when they were small. Hopefully I can learn how to record on to DVD from VHS thank you so much
In the life of a VCR timing is everything!!!!
Thank you for your great videos for those devices.
It enabled me to repair one myself i salvaged from a pile of trash of my former neighbours.
Now it runs very well.
My first thought was: "Okay this is too complicated for me, i'm just gonna trash it."
But then after watching a few minutes of your video i dived into it.... and did it! :D
Greetings from germany!
I used to have that. For five years. It was a great piece of electronics.
you are simply a GENIUS !!!!
Noooo way, my first thought was the "original" one developed another fault! You're a glutton for punishment man, and i envy your ability to store projects for "a few years" as-per-description without incurring major hassle about the damn mess!!! Saying that, I don't think I'd have rescued one of these combos in the first place.
These are actually quite valuable as they have a DVD-r / rw +r / +rw drive. The dvd player only models, forget it, but the recorders are worth saving.
That is why I showed both units but there will still be non believers.
26:16 that's what she said ;)
Isn't it always the way the second time round on a job, you've just done one so this oughta be a cakewalk right? Should take half the time, but it always seems to throw up unexpected twists to make the second one take as long if not longer than the first!
As always great in depth video. You can dub from VHS to DVD if you go though the settings menu, by default the dubbing mode is VHS to DVD. If you change from the dubbing mode to DVD to VHS you should be able to dub back to VHS. Great signal processing on these combos however prone to crap out easily.
Great information thanks for repair demonstrating.
Love your vids. I wish I had had this video a couple of years ago when I was repairing the same Toshiba VCR/DVD combo. I couldn't believe what a nightmare it was to get to the mode switch. When I saw how much you disliked working on this machine...it actually made me feel in hindsight that I had really accomplished something... and yes the machine is still running fine.
Mine works great too, but this was the second go around with this machine. A few years ago I pretty much wrote it off.
Simply excellent! My humble thanks.
Thank you for this video, I have a sanyo and I went to play some old video tapes that was my grandson when he was a baby which is now 30 years old. The VCR tape would go in and it would wrap around the head then the VCR would just shut down. So I'm going to try to do what I've watched you do and see if I can maybe make it work again sometimes I'm pretty good at electronics most of the time no thank you so much for the video. I did run a video tape which makes me sick.
Hi I have a Toshiba combi with no power any sugestions
These two vids were interesting that shows how important that mode switch is. I vote you get into the reel to reel ones.
It is the root cause of so many faults. The optical mode detection sensors caused as much if not more trouble. They would go intermittent as the light level from the LED started to drop.
Soon I will dig into reel to reel. I only work in the shop on my days off the regular job so mid week on my days off. I work 10 hour days at the fone company so by the time I am done it is dinner time and then time to relax. 4 day work week is great. I highly recommend it to anyone that can do it.
I wondered if DVD to VHS not recording it is due to the DVD Copy Control Association Specs
The stuff I recorded was my own video so no copy control. Will play with that deck more when I install it in my transfer gear. My panasonic dvd / hdd recorder has died so I will put this one it its place and service the panasonic one of these days.
@@12voltvids hey do you have an email address that I can send a message. Don't seemmto figure out my problem
At 15:09 when the cassette mechanism won't load, I can't figure out what you did to fix this? Was it something mechanical, or from cleaning the mode switch? Thanks!
I was just pushing the lock levers to allow it to load without a tape (the tape pushes these lock levers when you push in a cassette. It was the mode switch that was the fault on this, and I use this machine constantly to archive tapes now. Have done about 200 tapes on this machine since I fixed this one.
@@12voltvids Cool - thanks for the info. :)
Try going from dvd outputs to vhs inputs or do they have two sets of inputs and outputs
What timing marks do you look at for the mode switch? Great job.
I have a sanyo VWM-800. Worked fine . Later after a storm went thru, the house power went down 1/2 way. The next day when I went to use it, all it does is flash. The whole front of vcr all led lights flash? Nothing works :(
We meet again, Funai...
These look very similar to a Magnavox combi Electronicle fixed up earlier. I'm guessing they're all just Funai mechs?
My 2004 Philips VCR definitely had the same mech. Probably Funai.
@@crashbandicoot4everr Yes, they are Funais. Philips used to put them under the hood of late VHS machines.
i've got a toshiba 900 dx w pcm audio , used to master recording sessions , has issues , will def look at the mode switch , thx!
Thanks for the vid! very helpful 🤜
I wonder where the dirt ,corrosion in the mode switch comes from. It’s not a dusty area but mode switch failures was common on most vcr designs over the yrs....
It's that pesky element called oxygen. If only we could get rid of that many things would last longer. Metal wouldn't rust ect.
I have the same combo I don’t use the VCR because it will play for record for 20 seconds then kick out the tape and power off on its own I am not very technically gifted to know how to fix it but I do know the intake fan likes to eventually put a coating of dust all over the VCR components even when I cleaned it it still does the same thing I am most wish they completely sealed off the VCR from the DVD side.
I thought you loved pain/torture when you showed another tosh :)
It must of stressed you out a lot originally, i understand you not wanting to bother with it but you won again :-D.
I do understand the lack of interest in some repairs, i've left electronics standing because i just didn't have the interest/drive to bother with it.
i've also had things that i could not figure out and on another day i've took a different angle of attack and fixed the dam thing.
That happens all the time. I start on something and get frustrated with it, then put it away picking it up months or years later and solving the mystery. In this case the first time down the road the drum and capstan motor was dead so I was thinking power problem. Then I found a disconnected plug which suggested that someone else had been in there, and it may have been cold or hot, and I didn't feel like continuing, or I had some paid work to do so I stuck it aside for a rainy day. I get the twin in, and by fluke it has the same fault. Capstan and drum dead. Then the drum started and the capstan started turning backwards. That symptom suggested mode switch, as I have seen weird problems caused by it so many times. Sure enough the mode switch was the root cause on both units.
I think i may of said this before but i had a possesed vcr that would play a tape fine but it would suddenly decide to jump into forward fast for no reason.
I found it comical, the machine was bored with the film :-D
Yup it was the mode switch, it was such an odd effect.
After that i cleaned every one, just to make sure.
No logic failures after that.
zx8401ztv *must've
Can't wait for more rainy days. :) Could you show/teardown your best VCR?
Summer is coming. My Harley is calling my name and with my new schedule at work I will have 3 days off in a row in the middle of the week every week. I see some nice rides this year.
I have a very similar (2008 model) Toshiba combo. I tried connecting it to a new tv that only has HDMI input ports and composite inputs... it does not, as far as I can determine, have the yellow video jack... therefore, I can only get the dvd to work.
Any suggestions would be extremely helpful... thanks in advance
Great video!
Hello from canada i like your videos, i have two dvr7 with this same problème, what is the red liquid your clean with? Thanks
Deoxit. I was using d100 concentrate
I use to have one of those back in 2011 and it only lasted one week!
Can you tell me the model number to that Toshiba D-VR7 Combo VCR / DVD recorder I'm trying to one. reply comment.
That is the model number.
@@12voltvids OK Thank's I like your video's on TV's and records keep them coming.
Hello. I have a VHS/DVD Recorder Toshiba , model DVR620KU. In my case, the lights started blinking and nothing works. Neither the tape player nor the DVD palyer will eject. Do you have any idea what the problem may be? Thank You
I've got the same, or similar, issues. When I plug mine in, the power light just blinks on and off, but it won't turn on. I was using mine to convert old VHS home movies & other projects & it was very useful. Don't want to fork over $ to have someone else do them or by a replacement. (assuming I could find one)
Thanks for the video. Someone gave me one of these, there's still less then 25 hours on it, (nothing wrong). I can say for sure it's not the worst DVD recorder I've used; but mine has a slightly funky uneven black recording level that I wish also was lower. But at least all the features I tried seemed to work and its own firm ware doesn't crash, and it doesn't write discs that glitch or crash as far as I've seen (like those hilariously awful tru-tech machines do). I want to know if it's using Y/C between the tape and disc.
The toshiba dvd recorders I have (I have 3 nor counting this one) record some of the best video quality I have seen especially at the lower but rate modes.
On this machine if you put a copy protected VHS tape in and try to dub it to DVD does it just say cannot record and doesn't let you dub?
No you can NOT dub copy protected disks. You can of you plug another vcr in and run through a tbc or macro scrubber first. I put this one is service in my studio and there are other limitations. For example the hdmi only output the dvd not the VCR. So to view vhs tapes it must be connected by composite as well as hdmi. Naturally the DVD player will also output from composite. If you play a tape, the hdmi and component outputs continue to show the tuner video unless you put in a disk and hit dub. Then and only then does the video from the VHS show through. Even with that limitation though it allows me to remove 1 piece of equipment from my office. It will be well used.
With these permanent ribbon connectors i always cover them with 2 part epoxy around the soldered area it will never break again
Until some day they need to be removed.
I would only trust the Orion branded Toshiba VCR DVD combos
Some of the components and the type of cables look very similar to the previous VHS-DVD combo. I wonder if some of them are made by the same OEM.
it's the same make/model so i would think so (haven't seen the video yet but I'd imagine it'd be near identical.)
it's the same model.
@@danmackintosh6325 Same make, / model, just 2 years older. Look at the date codes and serial numbers.
you can program in the menu to dub from dvd to vhs but you have to change the menu settings to do so
Toshiba units are not bad compared to most other brand combo drives.
In the US it was "Go Video" VCR/DVD recorder combos and they bit the dust very quickly.
This one is working great. Have transferred 12 tapes to DVD with it since I fixed it.
I have the exact mode which has worked fine since I bought in 2009, but when I went to copy some old VHS Christmas movie favourites to DVD, "A Miracle on 34th Street" creating a Nightmare Before Christmas as the VHS tape stopped almost immediately and I had to pull out the tape and the tape snapped. Now I get an "L7" code on the VCR window of the unit and cannot find what this means. I lost original manual and the 2-page one I found on line has no troubleshooting codes. Also tried just "taping" to a blank DVD something from my cable unit I had recorded and unit tells me "can't record to DVD" (it was a Memorex DVD+R DL). I have no idea what KIND of blank DVD to buy that would work. Thanks for any assistance or if you can direct me to a site that has this info.
Likely the mode switch needs to be cleaned. They all go bad I have three at all three of them needed it. Dvr-7 does not record to dual layer discs. It supports DVD-R, dvd-rw, dvd+r and DVD+RW. It does not support DVD+R DL.
@@12voltvids thank you so much! Is that a solution I could undertake myself?
@@muskokadave3508 I show how it is done on at least 2 videos showing the procedure. It is quite involved but not hard to do. I think I did one in about 15 minutes.
@@12voltvids thanks again!
You are honest.Amen
I’d love one. Even though it’s got issues. It’s got HiFi Stereo VCR recorder AND DVD Recorder. It could only be better if it was a BluRay burner. The one I’ve got, also a Toshiba is a DVD Recorder only. It’s a nice one, tuner-less. But it does it’s job well.
You can get standalone Blu-Ray Recorders but not a combo as they do not make these anymore.
I have a bluray burner. In my pc. In all the time I have had it I have burned a handful of discs. Great for backup of music library as most bd players will play mp3 on a bd disk and 25 gig disk will hold thousands of tracks.
@@12voltvids Is your blu-ray burner an LG, i have some that can play HD DVD discs and also Blu-Ray discs as well. since the HD DVD is obsolete. These are worth having if you have the older HD DVD discs and can play Blu-Ray discs as well.
@@speedyboishan87
Yes it is an lg. Dont know if it has HD-DVD or not because I have no HD-DVD disks. I knew that format would be the betamax of disks and did not buy into it and even told people that did buy in that they just bought a beta.
VHS is good enough for dvd, BluRay is way overkill, and all bluray players will play DVD just fine
Hey 12volt I have a D-VR7 but it won't switch from dvd to vcr can you help
Can you get to the menu to finalize without a remote, as I have lost my remote?
Sorry you will need to find a remote. I have 3 recorders and only 1 remote.
I know this may be an old comment, but are you actually able to record what's on your tv onto a DVD-R with this device?
Yes it has an analog tuner and av inputs. You can connect your converter box into it and record tv channels onto dvd r or re and dvd+r and +rw discs as well as record on tape. Copy VHS to DVD and dvd to VHS on non copy protected content.
@@12voltvids highly appreciate the reply, thank you. Does it happen to have a HMDI port?
@@achikahola
It does but it is only for the dvd player side. Same with component. No output from the VHS side. Composite outputs both.
HI, 12voltvids: I have a VHS/DVD Recorder Toshiba ,model DVR620KU and it has this problem: after 6 seconds of play, the VCR/VHS unit suddenly stops and,great thing,it turns itself off;then,when I fire it up (turn it on) again,the tape ejects.
If it is the same chassis as this, the rotation sensor gets it's light from the same LED that operates the tape end sensors.
Some of those had an ATSC tuner built in.... might be the next model up.
I don't believe this one does but I can test it.
Im sure your workshop has a nice big hammer dave? i think that should sort it out for good. please dont torture yourself, you deserve better
People get upset with me when its hammer time.
I got a samsung dvd vcr combo with firewire great working condition for $8
Until I watched these two videos.I had no idea Toshiba had subcontracted with Funai.
Yup. They all shut down manufacturing their own VCRs and used Funai.
I have a Toshiba DVD recorder Model D-R410 that starts to load then stops then starts again and continues like this but never loads I'm a wits end. Any one have any ideas as to the problem?
You have 2 copies of this machine!
You did that last teardown 3/13/18.
I have one, the other one isn't mine.
@@12voltvids I know. Funai ' s vcr phase out was july/august 2016, the last vcr ever:(
@@austinthevhsvideogamelover5265 That late? I figured they would be gone before that. I figured this 2010 unit would have been one of the last ones made.
@@12voltvids back in 7/2016 i heard that on the news.
How can I ship you DVD recorder for repairs
These is not much I can do with these. Unless it is something like a power supply issue. If they aren't burning disks correctly it is usually the laser and I have no access to parts or service data.
@@12voltvids what happened is the cable connector was too tight and when I took the cable off the little Barrel that it screws into came out of the back of the machine I need something like that repaired
@@vincentdiverniero4679
Yes that should be fixable no problem. Done plenty of those over the years.
Hi Dave, you are either a glutton for punishment....or a MAN on a MISSION. I have an old Samsung DVD-V5500 which does not play DVD videos. It will play CD's and tapes OK. Is it a def. dual laser or do the disc players also have a MODE switch ? Thanks J K
You would put the disc in and the player would know what type of media it has to read, sounds like your laser is worn out.
@@Alexander_l322 Laser is my first though. DVD uses a red laser, CD uses an IR laser.
@@12voltvids yes sir
Remembering how much you complained about the first one.... Are you a masochist?
I complained about this one too, off camera.
@@12voltvids Don't keep all those emotions inside, it's bad for your health ;-)
@@jeremiefaucher-goulet3365 I don't. I don't give a crap about anything. Don't come to me looking for sympathy because you won't get it. One of my former co workers used to get wound up about everything. He was pissed at the company, at the boss, at the metrics, anout the pressure of he job, and pressure of his family life. Poor bastard dropped dead last June at the young age of 51. I don't get wound up. If I come across on camera like I am, it is only an act. I treat everyone with the same respect and let them stand on their own feet. I will help pretty much anyone with a problem or project, but I don't get emotionally involved. Only with my immediate family for for anyone else, I steer clear, and I steer even clearer of politics and religion.
I have the same model that doesn't rewind or fast forward VHS. Based on this video th-cam.com/video/Eevo1HExRIw/w-d-xo.html and one of the comments suggest, replacing the motor belt will fix the problem. However, as I watch your video, it looks like it's very difficult to replace the belt on this device. Is it even possible to replace the belt?
Clean mode switch.
@@12voltvids Thanks for your reply. The strange thing happened when I was trying to fix it. After taking the top off, I gave one more try playing a vhs, and voila it worked this time. All I did was spinning those two knobs that rewind and fast forward vhs with my fingers. It's really nice that I don't need to go too far to fix it, but at the same time, it makes me worry that the same problem would happen again? My only guess is maybe those things were stuck since they haven't been used for quiet a while? Is it even possible? Thanks.
@@EJKim-zk9st yes things can stick if they sit idle for awhile.
@@12voltvids good to know. Thanks again. I appreciate it.
I hope your storage facility is climate controlled. No way would I put electronics in storage unless it was.
It is heated, but the heat is kept cool, around 45'F