SAFE is indeed the child lock mode. Not sure why it was on. Probably so much noise on that power rail that the micro was freaking out. On some models, there is a button called c.lock on the remote that cancels it. On others, you hold power or play for 6 seconds.
the lack of wires in that vcr is pretty amazing. there's like two flex cables and that's it. a big change from the 80's models with dozens of connectors and seemingly miles of wire. The amount of integration and simplification is pretty high on that, it must be near the tail end of VCR production. I still am amused by the single sided board with the dozens and dozens of jumpers, and that it ends up being cheaper that way vs. a 2 layer board.
I spent the day today at work dealing with modems and fiber terminals being taken out by lightning induced failures. Nothing blown up but lots of data corruption and data lockouts.
Awesome repair as always, I remember the days of having the codes in the papers for programming the VCR, it used to be called G-Code here in NZ and also the method that Panasonic used as you mentioned.
Someone reversed-engineered the VCR Plus codes and came up with a code generator. And yes, it was easier to generate a code and use a VCR Plus than the alternative, especially when you had to deal with a cable box.
That little rain? In Brazil we get a triple of that! The weather here could be harsh. Sometimes the water enters the house... Edit: cool little machine with multiple speeds of search. Nice and simple mechanism, not much to it, not a lot to go wrong
I have a similar Samsung VCR, bought new in 2004 for just 59 EUR. Tape transport is not very robust, there is a gear assembly that is engaged for the fast (very fast) rewind, but it broke due to a cassette whose tape apparently was a bit sticky. I had to glue the gear back, not sure how long it will last, plastic is already brittle after 16 years and not very high quality to begin with.
Nice job 12voltvids, I was watching some of my old VCR tapes the other day on my Panasonic NVD80 just suddenly lost sound, not had time to look into what happened to it yet, but not dirty heads as no LINE in audio either and tracking bar-graph display also not working, any first impressions on this would help give me a starter but PSU was recapped by me about 2 years ago. I have had some thoughts that it might be a bad cap in the audio mute circuit been looking at a the schematic it's just a nightmare knowing where to start.
@@12voltvids thanks good point, yeah will have to review the Schematic and check for which areas to examine, these D80s super complicated it pays to review schematics first used to fix hifi stuff back in the 90s was self employed, just don't want to have room full of parts yet lol until got some ideas where to start. All video and digital stuff working OK, but tracking might be out of order too, think a job for the winter days to keep me busy.
We had an alternative to VCR Plus back in the day. It was called Showview. Actually maybe it was the same thing, just branded under a different name for European countries. Just a bunch of numbers. If you punched them in correctly, the VCR automatically set itself to record the specific TV show. To many people it was just faster to set the VCR timer by hand because the shows never actually started exactly on time. It was safe to set the recording five minutes earlier and end it fifteen minutes later due to commercials.
Yep I'm sure that was exactly the same thing it was a series of five numbers and it would set the recorder for the channel and the date and the time. Of course once people started requiring cable boxes this became a problem so then the VCR manufacturers responded by including a cable mouse which was an infrared emitter that sat on top of the cable box to tune the cable box to the correct Channel. But you're right most people didn't use it. Then for a while we had TV guide. This was an electronic program guide that you subscribe to and it would do exactly the same thing that the guy does on current cable and satellite boxes except in this case it would set your VCR or your DVD recorder to record a program off of conventional cable or off air. It may have been a free service for that matter I don't know as I never owned any equipment that supported it at the time it was around. I know the signal was embedded in a local TV station as part of the vertical interval data and at night the equipment when it was in standby would tune to that signal so that it could download the guide information and the time and it was typically carried on one of the PBS stations. It didn't last long and TV guide went bankrupt and of course the signal shut down and it made all of these machines that relied on it obsolete. Fortunately you could still set it manually but in reality these machines that used TV guide were a pain in the ass to set manually so it was a lot of work and people dumped the equipment because it was so frustrating to set things manually. One of my Panasonic DVD recorders has TV guide built in and when I first fire it up it's sitting there looking for the TV guide signal which of course doesn't exist anymore so it will just sit there forever until I manually cancel it and this happens every time there's a power interruption. of course if you don't have the original remote you can't cancel that feature which was another drawback to that system because universal remote didn't have the button required to bail out of that TV guide screen so if your original remote was lost or damaged and the power went out the unit would basically lock up and you would have to try and find an original remote that had that feature.
@@12voltvids Here in the UK it was known as VideoPlus+ though I still preferred to set timers the old fashioned way (Start - End - Ch - Date). It was much easier with machines that had a remote with a large LCD on them; simply transit the data over to the VCR, job done.. There was another more advanced system known as VPT (Video Programming via Teletext), which allowed timer recordings to be set from the channel guide (via the VCR's on-board Teletext/ Fastext decoder). If you also had the PDC (Programme Delivery Control) feature, it would automatically adjust the timer block, say, if a sports or live/ news event overran. I had a Philips S-VHS machine that did all of the above..when they still made all the good stuff in Austria, and long before the JVC clones from Malaysia!
I know I'm having problems with the VCR on my DVD recorder now. It plays for a few seconds, ejects the tape, and shuts off. If I FF or REW, it winds the tape for a few seconds, ejects the tape, and shuts off. I haven't got a clue. I don't know if there's something I can do, or if it's just EOL. I don't really have a need for VHS anymore. I still have tapes, and I've backed up most of the ones I care about. If I wanted to watch a tape for any reason, I can't.
I'll try a random diag and suggestions, why not.. Dirty mode select switch if it has one. Dried up grease in drive mech has tape speed (ips?) too slow and it says hell no and spits it out. PSU caps and/or motor driver caps, test those. Last but not least...The audio head needs cleaned. If it's not getting audio signal it wont sync so it will stop (dosent explain stopping unless it keeps the tape wrapped against the R/W head and full tape path.)
I'm sure you do but we don't. We get sprinkles or rain and perhaps 4cm of snow a year here. Some of the beat weather in the world where i am. Not too hot not too cold.
Awesome video. I have this same vcr and I am trying to figure out why my vhs tapes wheel doesn't spin and I have no picture due to that issue. I took the casset cartridge out to see if I find something faulty and place it back, now I can't Insert cassette and the player thinks I Inserted the cassette. I've noticed a wheel on the side of the power regulator and shows the function, stop, play, ff, rw. I am not sure the exact position it supposed to be when inserting the cassette cartridge to the main board. Can you explain a bit on it.? Would really appreciate it. Thank you so much. Take care.
I seen the same thing happened before is lose power went to safe mode with the on types of VCR circuit it can have another default circuit on the VCR it can also have half of the power
I did nothing to get it out if safe mode, that went away but it still had a fault and they were all related. Since you were skipping through the video you missed the solution and I am not going to tell you where it is but if you go back and watch it through without fast forwarding you will see what I found.
I'm thinking "SAFE" is a designed in safety shut down mode programmed in to protect errant voltage conditions. Just a guess, would be interesting to see what the service manual says, but probably unobtainable.
@@crashbandicoot4everr Yes. This machine has de DEW sensor (owner´s manual specifies it) but no light. Simply it won´t play or rewind until moisture evaporates.
the SAFE on the display means "safe mode" its to keep tapes from damage from detected malfunctions, this is a rare feature on some vcrs, that vcr is a treasure. i always loved watching vcrs operate growing up, such fascinating machines, brings back soo much memories using them to watch movies and repairing them too, i also still have my vcr plus remote device along with a few vcrs, they still work. and camcorders some are non functional and some day ill get them working. i use adblock and never had issues with youtube ads, and no need for premium. keep the videos rollin.
When you use as blockers I don't get paid. I don't enjoy working for free. Some day someone will ask why I have stopped posting new content and that will be my answer.
@@12voltvids fair enough, but ads are annoying, youtube and websites over do them, and i would of stopped watching youtube and cut my internet as i did with cable/sat. long ago due to too much advertisements. i wish there was a adblock for tv too. also you made a typo and made me laugh you called it as blockers, i sure can use an ass blocker. dont worry its not for you.
@@jr-pl9kj sorry you feel that way but that is how we make a living. I don't enjoy ads either but someone has to pay. You either pay by sub or you pay by watching ads or you are a thief. Nobody likes thief's. Don't worry though as you won't be able to block ads much longer. They are going to be embedded as hard breaks into the stream and there will be nothing to skip, it will be part of the stream. I am sure many will stop watching for awhile but once implemented there will be 2 options. Watch forced commercial or pay a monthly or per view fee. It's coming, i get notifications from TH-cam and creators will be able to opt in or out. This was supposed to be in place now but there were some issues and challenges that needed to be sorted out. It's coming and many are anxious because we see the stats.
@@12voltvids ive been reading about it too, problem is youtube has been a free video sharing site for so long and if youtube becomes like netflix or other pay streaming services, youtube will destroy itself and all those who share their videos, because they will have to pay to use the service too, just to post a video, youtube knows this and thats why they havent changed anything yet. so how i see it is no one is a thief if something is free.
We often have weather like this in the summer time months. Drought, then extreme rain, then it stops in an instant back to sunny weather. Welcome to Central European climate catastrophe weather in Canada...
I find it weird that people complain about ads, it's free content. Like ota channels. I hope they keep bitching because your temper cracks me up. Your the best technician I watch but you're surly as fuck. Good combination for great content.
I'm a Premium member and have no problem with you. What does suck is all the content providers that do advertisements as part of their videos (i.e., "Oh you go to use Square Space just like I do"). Grrrrr..... I pay for premium and then they shill their sponsor's crap for five minutes. - lol
Well i get those potential sponsors messaging me daily and I have been resisting them but if people keep blocking ads perhaps i will be forced to hawk something before the video runs. I don't want to do it but the stats for blocked ads may make me rethink this.
@@12voltvids I have no idea what it is like to be a content creator. A friend tried to get me on it several years ago (I do repairs also, but not so much of the consumer variety), but had no idea what I would need to get equipped and do NOT have a good TH-cam personality - lol. I keep hearing, more and more, that it's hard to make money off of TH-cam. Most have Patrion support, but that's a more advanced topic. But they do get some TH-cam money, good Patrion money, and still hock Square Space, and other stuff, for 5 minutes, like that is better than slices bread. As a TH-cam Premium viewer, it is a bit frustrating. I guess it's a small price to pay to watch cool TRUE reality TV - lol.
@@Daveyk021 There is money to be made on TH-cam. Patreon hasn't done much for me. About 150 bucks a month. I haven't fallen for the sponsored ads at this time but who knows what the future holds.
@@12voltvids Dave, have you considered levels of Patreon memberships? Many content creators have done this which incentives higher donations to receive personal email communication and more personalized help with projects they are working on. Mr. Carlson's Lab does this and Xraytony just started doing this. This also helps keep your incoming emails from getting hammered with junk, spam, and trolls. Seems like a win win. Doing sponsored adds is not fair to those who pay for premiere TH-cam add free video. That is what the cable companies did to us, pay for commercial free TV, then get adds anyways. Please don't go down that path.
@@zulumax1 Patreon has gone nowhere. Had it gone differently there would have been more content offered but I gave it a few years and 99.9% gave me a thumbs down. Then patreon started collecting tax from supporters and taking it off on the creator side too.
I watch Instagram, and since Facebook took over, they have really gone downhill with ads. A couple of accounts I followed are half ads now, so I unfollowed them. One I really like is now 75% ads, so I'm going to drop them as well. Frankly, from what I'm reading on the web is that Google (who owns TH-cam), is sucking most the money away from content creators. One TH-cam creator I follow said they lose money when they feature their children, and then have their comments disabled. There needs to be a major competitor to TH-cam, who will share profits with the creators. My two cents worth. Great repair BTW.
Content authors have no control over adds. I can't even watch my own videos on my own channel without getting hammered by adds. A few months ago TH-cam changed things, they obviously want everyone on a subscription. Adds every 3 minutes is now the norm, and sometimes non skipable ones, depends on the traffic viewership. Sorry folks, now you have to pay to play.
@@countzero1136 It is an annoyance to me, why would I want to give a disinterested 3rd party my money to block adds? The message was to those whining about it.
Well i fixed it up and sold it. Put it up and got a reasonable offer right away and it was picked up and on its way to a new home. Having the remote helped it sell quick.
What a strange acting machine, if it had a mode switch i would say it was that. But it hasn't. Puffed up psu caps would be a good reason, but it's not that eather. Yep u.k weather is rather random as well. Very dark clouds that look ready to drop there load, but they don't. The second you go outside, it rains. The god of rain hates us lol :-D
Not sure why anybody would be whining about ads in your videos as there's not really that many. Maybe 5 in 30 minutes? And you can usually skip those after 5 seconds of play. Otherwise one or two might run 15 senconds with no skip option.....big deal.......smh
SAFE is indeed the child lock mode. Not sure why it was on. Probably so much noise on that power rail that the micro was freaking out. On some models, there is a button called c.lock on the remote that cancels it. On others, you hold power or play for 6 seconds.
the lack of wires in that vcr is pretty amazing. there's like two flex cables and that's it. a big change from the 80's models with dozens of connectors and seemingly miles of wire. The amount of integration and simplification is pretty high on that, it must be near the tail end of VCR production. I still am amused by the single sided board with the dozens and dozens of jumpers, and that it ends up being cheaper that way vs. a 2 layer board.
When I saw the weather outside your shop I thought that you had decided to spend your summer here in Wales :)
I spent the day today at work dealing with modems and fiber terminals being taken out by lightning induced failures. Nothing blown up but lots of data corruption and data lockouts.
Awesome repair as always, I remember the days of having the codes in the papers for programming the VCR, it used to be called G-Code here in NZ and also the method that Panasonic used as you mentioned.
I never played a VCR upside down. I didn't know I could, lol. Great job!
Nicely done Dave. I love your channel. Thanks for sharing.
Someone reversed-engineered the VCR Plus codes and came up with a code generator. And yes, it was easier to generate a code and use a VCR Plus than the alternative, especially when you had to deal with a cable box.
That little rain? In Brazil we get a triple of that! The weather here could be harsh. Sometimes the water enters the house...
Edit: cool little machine with multiple speeds of search. Nice and simple mechanism, not much to it, not a lot to go wrong
Oh for the days when you could take off the bottom panel and get full access to the underside of the board...
or those orion sets where the vhs mechanism hinges up from the board. Very convenient.
I have a similar Samsung VCR, bought new in 2004 for just 59 EUR. Tape transport is not very robust, there is a gear assembly that is engaged for the fast (very fast) rewind, but it broke due to a cassette whose tape apparently was a bit sticky. I had to glue the gear back, not sure how long it will last, plastic is already brittle after 16 years and not very high quality to begin with.
THis VCR looks so simple compared the billion wires in my 1992 VCR.
What channel do you select on vcr in order to get a picture from the tuner?
Brilliant repair 📼 as always
good work, I like to watch how to repair old things
The factory in Indonesia was the Funai factory.
Great VCRs. Funai was one of my favourite brands. So reliable
@@tenmillionvoltsAnd Funai sucks. Panasonic is way better than Funai (Samsung/Smasnug)
sir i m looking for a 8mm cam or 8mm video player. can you help me about this?
I have 8mm cam 4 sale
Nice job 12voltvids, I was watching some of my old VCR tapes the other day on my Panasonic NVD80 just suddenly lost sound, not had time to look into what happened to it yet, but not dirty heads as no LINE in audio either and tracking bar-graph display also not working, any first impressions on this would help give me a starter but PSU was recapped by me about 2 years ago. I have had some thoughts that it might be a bad cap in the audio mute circuit been looking at a the schematic it's just a nightmare knowing where to start.
It won't be a bad cap. They don't fail like that. You have lost a vintage somewhere. Suspect broken connections or open choke.
@@12voltvids thanks good point, yeah will have to review the Schematic and check for which areas to examine, these D80s super complicated it pays to review schematics first used to fix hifi stuff back in the 90s was self employed, just don't want to have room full of parts yet lol until got some ideas where to start. All video and digital stuff working OK, but tracking might be out of order too, think a job for the winter days to keep me busy.
We had an alternative to VCR Plus back in the day. It was called Showview. Actually maybe it was the same thing, just branded under a different name for European countries. Just a bunch of numbers. If you punched them in correctly, the VCR automatically set itself to record the specific TV show. To many people it was just faster to set the VCR timer by hand because the shows never actually started exactly on time. It was safe to set the recording five minutes earlier and end it fifteen minutes later due to commercials.
Yep I'm sure that was exactly the same thing it was a series of five numbers and it would set the recorder for the channel and the date and the time. Of course once people started requiring cable boxes this became a problem so then the VCR manufacturers responded by including a cable mouse which was an infrared emitter that sat on top of the cable box to tune the cable box to the correct Channel. But you're right most people didn't use it. Then for a while we had TV guide. This was an electronic program guide that you subscribe to and it would do exactly the same thing that the guy does on current cable and satellite boxes except in this case it would set your VCR or your DVD recorder to record a program off of conventional cable or off air. It may have been a free service for that matter I don't know as I never owned any equipment that supported it at the time it was around. I know the signal was embedded in a local TV station as part of the vertical interval data and at night the equipment when it was in standby would tune to that signal so that it could download the guide information and the time and it was typically carried on one of the PBS stations. It didn't last long and TV guide went bankrupt and of course the signal shut down and it made all of these machines that relied on it obsolete. Fortunately you could still set it manually but in reality these machines that used TV guide were a pain in the ass to set manually so it was a lot of work and people dumped the equipment because it was so frustrating to set things manually. One of my Panasonic DVD recorders has TV guide built in and when I first fire it up it's sitting there looking for the TV guide signal which of course doesn't exist anymore so it will just sit there forever until I manually cancel it and this happens every time there's a power interruption. of course if you don't have the original remote you can't cancel that feature which was another drawback to that system because universal remote didn't have the button required to bail out of that TV guide screen so if your original remote was lost or damaged and the power went out the unit would basically lock up and you would have to try and find an original remote that had that feature.
@@12voltvids Here in the UK it was known as VideoPlus+ though I still preferred to set timers the old fashioned way (Start - End - Ch - Date). It was much easier with machines that had a remote with a large LCD on them; simply transit the data over to the VCR, job done..
There was another more advanced system known as VPT (Video Programming via Teletext), which allowed timer recordings to be set from the channel guide (via the VCR's on-board Teletext/ Fastext decoder). If you also had the PDC (Programme Delivery Control) feature, it would automatically adjust the timer block, say, if a sports or live/ news event overran.
I had a Philips S-VHS machine that did all of the above..when they still made all the good stuff in Austria, and long before the JVC clones from Malaysia!
Yes, 1999 VCRs had it even in countries where the system was not developed. (Gemstar guide + )
Good evening Dave you saved a nother video player 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
I know I'm having problems with the VCR on my DVD recorder now. It plays for a few seconds, ejects the tape, and shuts off. If I FF or REW, it winds the tape for a few seconds, ejects the tape, and shuts off. I haven't got a clue. I don't know if there's something I can do, or if it's just EOL. I don't really have a need for VHS anymore. I still have tapes, and I've backed up most of the ones I care about. If I wanted to watch a tape for any reason, I can't.
What does EOL mean?
Clean the mode switch. That is likely the problem.
I'll try a random diag and suggestions, why not.. Dirty mode select switch if it has one. Dried up grease in drive mech has tape speed (ips?) too slow and it says hell no and spits it out. PSU caps and/or motor driver caps, test those. Last but not least...The audio head needs cleaned. If it's not getting audio signal it wont sync so it will stop (dosent explain stopping unless it keeps the tape wrapped against the R/W head and full tape path.)
@@HuskyDog88 EOL = End of Life
@@HuskyDog88 That Means End of Life for the Machine in Question.
We get rain more heavier than that here in Australia.
I'm sure you do but we don't. We get sprinkles or rain and perhaps 4cm of snow a year here. Some of the beat weather in the world where i am. Not too hot not too cold.
I have this exact machine, but it’s branded fidelity model number vcr2020f.
Awesome video. I have this same vcr and I am trying to figure out why my vhs tapes wheel doesn't spin and I have no picture due to that issue. I took the casset cartridge out to see if I find something faulty and place it back, now I can't Insert cassette and the player thinks I Inserted the cassette. I've noticed a wheel on the side of the power regulator and shows the function, stop, play, ff, rw. I am not sure the exact position it supposed to be when inserting the cassette cartridge to the main board. Can you explain a bit on it.? Would really appreciate it. Thank you so much. Take care.
Its propably the revo mechanism
I seen the same thing happened before is lose power went to safe mode with the on types of VCR circuit it can have another default circuit on the VCR it can also have half of the power
So what did u do to unlock it? You were filming the rain and after that the machine was opened and the safe mode was gone?
I did nothing to get it out if safe mode, that went away but it still had a fault and they were all related. Since you were skipping through the video you missed the solution and I am not going to tell you where it is but if you go back and watch it through without fast forwarding you will see what I found.
you should export rain to nevada , colarado river is quite low
I'm thinking "SAFE" is a designed in safety shut down mode programmed in to protect errant voltage conditions. Just a guess, would be interesting to see what the service manual says, but probably unobtainable.
My thoughts exactly.
Or perphaps some Dew sensor detected moisture and kept the unit from operating? But I doubt there are Dew sensors on modern machines like this.
@@crashbandicoot4everr Yes. This machine has de DEW sensor (owner´s manual specifies it) but no light. Simply it won´t play or rewind until moisture evaporates.
Heavy rain like that in the area this guy is at is crazy. However, it is a crazy world.
I did pause during the light show.
What adds I don't see any keep up the good work. 😁
the SAFE on the display means "safe mode" its to keep tapes from damage from detected malfunctions, this is a rare feature on some vcrs, that vcr is a treasure. i always loved watching vcrs operate growing up, such fascinating machines, brings back soo much memories using them to watch movies and repairing them too, i also still have my vcr plus remote device along with a few vcrs, they still work. and camcorders some are non functional and some day ill get them working.
i use adblock and never had issues with youtube ads, and no need for premium.
keep the videos rollin.
When you use as blockers I don't get paid. I don't enjoy working for free. Some day someone will ask why I have stopped posting new content and that will be my answer.
@@12voltvids fair enough, but ads are annoying, youtube and websites over do them, and i would of stopped watching youtube and cut my internet as i did with cable/sat. long ago due to too much advertisements. i wish there was a adblock for tv too.
also you made a typo and made me laugh you called it as blockers, i sure can use an ass blocker. dont worry its not for you.
@@jr-pl9kj sorry you feel that way but that is how we make a living. I don't enjoy ads either but someone has to pay. You either pay by sub or you pay by watching ads or you are a thief. Nobody likes thief's. Don't worry though as you won't be able to block ads much longer. They are going to be embedded as hard breaks into the stream and there will be nothing to skip, it will be part of the stream. I am sure many will stop watching for awhile but once implemented there will be 2 options. Watch forced commercial or pay a monthly or per view fee. It's coming, i get notifications from TH-cam and creators will be able to opt in or out. This was supposed to be in place now but there were some issues and challenges that needed to be sorted out. It's coming and many are anxious because we see the stats.
@@12voltvids ive been reading about it too, problem is youtube has been a free video sharing site for so long and if youtube becomes like netflix or other pay streaming services, youtube will destroy itself and all those who share their videos, because they will have to pay to use the service too, just to post a video, youtube knows this and thats why they havent changed anything yet. so how i see it is no one is a thief if something is free.
@@12voltvidsI don’t understand this response. Who is forcing you to upload to TH-cam?
We often have weather like this in the summer time months. Drought, then extreme rain, then it stops in an instant back to sunny weather. Welcome to Central European climate catastrophe weather in Canada...
I find it weird that people complain about ads, it's free content. Like ota channels. I hope they keep bitching because your temper cracks me up. Your the best technician I watch but you're surly as fuck. Good combination for great content.
I don't have a temper. It's all an act. Love it how I fooled ya! Lol.
@@12voltvids I think you're great man. I'm just razzing ya. I've learned a ton watching your videos and a laugh never hurts anyone lol
there are browser plugins to remove youtube ads
@23:13 - Now that was a weird coincidence. I'm watching this before work at 5:48am when I noticed the time on his watch...
I'm a Premium member and have no problem with you. What does suck is all the content providers that do advertisements as part of their videos (i.e., "Oh you go to use Square Space just like I do"). Grrrrr..... I pay for premium and then they shill their sponsor's crap for five minutes. - lol
Well i get those potential sponsors messaging me daily and I have been resisting them but if people keep blocking ads perhaps i will be forced to hawk something before the video runs. I don't want to do it but the stats for blocked ads may make me rethink this.
@@12voltvids I have no idea what it is like to be a content creator. A friend tried to get me on it several years ago (I do repairs also, but not so much of the consumer variety), but had no idea what I would need to get equipped and do NOT have a good TH-cam personality - lol.
I keep hearing, more and more, that it's hard to make money off of TH-cam. Most have Patrion support, but that's a more advanced topic.
But they do get some TH-cam money, good Patrion money, and still hock Square Space, and other stuff, for 5 minutes, like that is better than slices bread. As a TH-cam Premium viewer, it is a bit frustrating. I guess it's a small price to pay to watch cool TRUE reality TV - lol.
@@Daveyk021
There is money to be made on TH-cam. Patreon hasn't done much for me. About 150 bucks a month. I haven't fallen for the sponsored ads at this time but who knows what the future holds.
@@12voltvids Dave, have you considered levels of Patreon memberships? Many content creators have done this which incentives higher donations to receive personal email communication and more personalized help with projects they are working on. Mr. Carlson's Lab does this and Xraytony just started doing this. This also helps keep your incoming emails from getting hammered with junk, spam, and trolls. Seems like a win win.
Doing sponsored adds is not fair to those who pay for premiere TH-cam add free video. That is what the cable companies did to us, pay for commercial free TV, then get adds anyways. Please don't go down that path.
@@zulumax1
Patreon has gone nowhere. Had it gone differently there would have been more content offered but I gave it a few years and 99.9% gave me a thumbs down. Then patreon started collecting tax from supporters and taking it off on the creator side too.
Nice I like how you did the disclaimer about the Ad's
TH-cam premium is worth having. No ads period and creators still get paid.
Yes
My LG VCR SAFE Mode, but i have no remote for this VCR. help me anyone
I watch Instagram, and since Facebook took over, they have really gone downhill with ads. A couple of accounts I followed are half ads now, so I unfollowed them. One I really like is now 75% ads, so I'm going to drop them as well. Frankly, from what I'm reading on the web is that Google (who owns TH-cam), is sucking most the money away from content creators. One TH-cam creator I follow said they lose money when they feature their children, and then have their comments disabled. There needs to be a major competitor to TH-cam, who will share profits with the creators. My two cents worth.
Great repair BTW.
Content authors have no control over adds. I can't even watch my own videos on my own channel without getting hammered by adds. A few months ago TH-cam changed things, they obviously want everyone on a subscription. Adds every 3 minutes is now the norm, and sometimes non skipable ones, depends on the traffic viewership. Sorry folks, now you have to pay to play.
I have just two words of advice for you;
ublock origin
@@countzero1136 It is an annoyance to me, why would I want to give a disinterested 3rd party my money to block adds? The message was to those whining about it.
And when they finally have everyone hooked on a subscription... Ads once again! :D
@@enzoperruccio Just like cable TV did!
@@zulumax1 Yep, exactly
Somebody watched The Marathon Man on this VCR.
I had a vcr a long time ago that had a light on that seid dew, and it would not turn off!
It happened to me once when the Backup Battery was empty and i didnt had the remote Control to enter the code
We`ve hardly had a drop of rain here in Edinburgh so think yourself lucky
must of browned out and kicked the microcontroller into a weird state.
Well i fixed it up and sold it. Put it up and got a reasonable offer right away and it was picked up and on its way to a new home. Having the remote helped it sell quick.
this is like my VCR the only one i have
dont need youtube premiem just use adblock
What a strange acting machine, if it had a mode switch i would say it was that.
But it hasn't.
Puffed up psu caps would be a good reason, but it's not that eather.
Yep u.k weather is rather random as well.
Very dark clouds that look ready to drop there load, but they don't.
The second you go outside, it rains.
The god of rain hates us lol :-D
i could be moisture .
Plot twist: It says safe because it thinks it's OK with the fault and isn't in any danger.
Not sure why anybody would be whining about ads in your videos as there's not really that many. Maybe 5 in 30 minutes? And you can usually skip those after 5 seconds of play. Otherwise one or two might run 15 senconds with no skip option.....big deal.......smh
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People do like to bitch about ANYTHING on TH-cam.
Hold down power on vcr unit or the remote for 8 seconds. It turns the SAFE mode on or off.
Yes I agree...I think it was a child lock?
Thought he tried that, didn't he?
@@zulumax1 I tried that, on camera at that.
@@12voltvids Thought so, remote too from what I recall. I was going to watch it again.
Easy fix no parts needed
Now only if they all was just that easy lol
I pay for TH-cam Premium. Have for years.
it has a safe mode
Aparantly.
Which means?