Okay, Okay I know I'm in the stone age. I have a VCR DVD combo, and YES, I use the VCR quite frequently. For one thing, I don't have the money to replace all my old VHS with a DVD copy (why buy a movie I already have?) and the local Library has lots of good stuff on VHS that they don't have on DVD..

Anyway.. today I went to pop in a tape and encountered a problem I'd had before..

Once in awhile (this is the 2nd or 3rd time it's happened) I try to watch a VHS and it's really fuzzy.. like the tracking is way off.. BUT.. please read the following points...

1. It's not the tape.. If I pop in another tape and another and another, they all are fuzzy...later the "problem tapes" are just fine

2. It's not the tracking (I think) I've tried ajusting it until I'm blue in the face...I see the tracking changing, but the fuzziness I'm talking about doesn't change

3. It's not the TV.. plays a DVD clear as a bell..

4. Yes I HAVE tried using a VHS head cleaning tape. DIdn't work (unless it was a delayed effect)

Any other thoughts on what could be the problem? Last time it did this, I tried several tapes, tried cleaning the head (with a VHS head cleaning "tape".. still the same afterward) a few days later, tried again and it was fine!!

But It's very inconvenient to "wait" and hope it gets better on it's own

Any other thoughts on what could be the problem???

Please??