That was a problem. You have to keep monkeying with it. Try it with the machine unplugged. Try pushing tape back in repeatedly. Try pushing tape in and down if possible. You just have to keep workign...
We have a combo Panasonic TV/VCR and the tape has gotten stuck several times. We unplugged the TV, waited a few seconds, and we replugged it in while holding the eject button at the same time on the...
Use a donor cassette.
This is what I have done in the past:
Take a good tape of little value. For instance a promotional tape.
Open both the good and bad tape.
Discard the actual tape of the...
Super VHS was an 'improved' version of VHS. The picture was much better. But, while you could play a VHS on a Super machine, you could NOT play a Super tape on a regular VHS machine. It never matched...