{"product":{"product_id":"075069940X","title":"VCR Troubleshooting and Repair","price":"27.96","image_url":"https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51RiG1KTlrL._SL500_.jpg","url":"https://www.amazon.com/dp/075069940X"},"comments":[{"body":"From a fundamentals level [this book](https://www.amazon.com/VCR-Troubleshooting-Repair-Robert-Brenner/dp/075069940X) is a good read. Some of the information is pretty dated, but the core stuff hasn't changed.\r\n\r\nAlso I recommend browsing old webforums on broken VCR questions (videokarma is a good one) and there's a bunch of YouTube channels with good repair stuff - 12voltvids and video99.co.uk have a lot of good in-depth VCR repair videos.\r\n\r\nAlso if you have a VCR fail, might as well try to fix it before tossing it. Even if you don't succeed, you will still learn something. Just be careful and aware of where the dangerous voltages are (modern VCRs tend to have the switch-mode power supply just sitting there, exposed).","subreddit_name":"VHS","author":"probnot"},{"body":"\u0026gt;     General Information:\r\n\u0026gt; \r\n\u0026gt; \r\n\u0026gt; \r\n\u0026gt; https://spectrum.ieee.org/revisiting-the-vcrs-origins\r\n\u0026gt; \r\n\u0026gt; \r\n\u0026gt; \r\n\u0026gt;     Service Literature (specific by VCR model):\r\n\u0026gt; \r\n\u0026gt; \r\n\u0026gt; \r\n\u0026gt; https://www.owner-manuals.com/index.php?main_page=index\r\n\u0026gt; \r\n\u0026gt; \r\n\u0026gt; \r\n\u0026gt; http://www.digitalfaq.com/forum/vcr-repair/2668-index-user-manuals.html\r\n\u0026gt; \r\n\u0026gt; \r\n\u0026gt; \r\n\u0026gt; https://elektrotanya.com/keres\r\n\u0026gt; \r\n\u0026gt; \r\n\u0026gt; \r\n\u0026gt;     Repair Literature:\r\n\u0026gt; \r\n\u0026gt; \r\n\u0026gt; \r\n\u0026gt; https://www.amazon.ca/VCR-Troubleshooting-Repair-Robert-Brenner/dp/075069940X/ -- I have this one. Goes into great detail about theory of operation\r\n\u0026gt; \r\n\u0026gt; \r\n\u0026gt; \r\n\u0026gt; https://www.amazon.ca/Practical-VCR-Repair-David-Ronan/dp/0827365837\r\n\u0026gt; \r\n\u0026gt; \r\n\u0026gt; \r\n\u0026gt; https://www.amazon.ca/Home-Repair-Illustrated-Richard-Wilkins/dp/0070707693\r\n\u0026gt; \r\n\u0026gt; \r\n\u0026gt; \r\n\u0026gt; https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=M3NE84APLxIC\r\n\u0026gt; \r\n\u0026gt; \r\n\u0026gt; \r\n\u0026gt; I originally thought that the patent or general information about VHS would be avalaiable somewhere, but I couldn't find it with a cursory search.\r\n\r\nThank you!","subreddit_name":"VHS","author":"omgsoftcats"},{"body":"* General Information:\r\n\r\nhttps://spectrum.ieee.org/revisiting-the-vcrs-origins\r\n\r\n* Service Literature (specific by VCR model):\r\n\r\nhttps://www.owner-manuals.com/index.php?main_page=index\r\n\r\nhttp://www.digitalfaq.com/forum/vcr-repair/2668-index-user-manuals.html\r\n\r\nhttps://elektrotanya.com/keres\r\n\r\n* Repair Literature:\r\n\r\nhttps://www.amazon.ca/VCR-Troubleshooting-Repair-Robert-Brenner/dp/075069940X/ -- I have this one. Goes into great detail about theory of operation\r\n\r\nhttps://www.amazon.ca/Practical-VCR-Repair-David-Ronan/dp/0827365837\r\n\r\nhttps://www.amazon.ca/Home-Repair-Illustrated-Richard-Wilkins/dp/0070707693\r\n\r\nhttps://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=M3NE84APLxIC\r\n\r\nI originally thought that the patent or general information about VHS would be avalaiable somewhere, but I couldn't find it with a cursory search.","subreddit_name":"VHS","author":"probnot"}]}