It tells the VCR how quickly to pull the tape past the drum (since the tape may stretch or shrink over time). It gets the heads lined up with the bands during playback. When you play with the "tracking" control on your VCR, what you are doing is adjusting the skew between the cont...
I recommend tracking your progress for each day on a calendar so you can see even the slightest progression. Do not expect perfection. You may sometimes feel like Tom Hanks in the movie “Cast Away” trying to get over those big waves and off the island. Just keep trying no matter how ...
If you’re using an S-Video cable for higher quality, leave the yellow RCA plug disconnected and put the S-Video cable into the S-Video sockets on your VCR and your VHS to digital connector. Step 3. Insert your VHS cassette Finally, switch on your computer (and if your capture device...
Every mainframe and supercomputer is normally connected to hundreds of them, while even VCR-type devices and camcorders use hard disks instead of tape. So, what is a hard drive, and how does it operate these countless hard disks? A hard disk drive is a data storage device that uses one ...
I pulled a 1/4 watt from old vcr and I gather the resistance to have been 3400. My car will not start and I was wondering if a dead pass lock sensor will cut power so this isn’t going to work? Also, I saw a tutorial where it seems the guy was saying to place resistor in ...
Mount the motor horizontally on a board with the shaft extending over the edge. Take a model airplane propeller and fix it to the motor's shaft, perpendicular to the board. Make sure the propeller fits tightly on the shaft or screws down so that when the propeller turns, it turns the ...
DVD+ ("plus") and DVD- ("dash") are two competing DVD formats. You may remember the "war" between the Betamax and VHS formats for domination of theVCRmarket. The big difference with DVD+R vs. DVD-R is that there are hybrid (dual-format) drives capable of reading both types. Many...
Most of us don't think about what's going on inside a copier while we wait for it to shoot out the copies. Find out how, in mere seconds, you can produce an exact replica of what's on a sheet of paper!
pretend that you're an AP clerk tracking payments to vendors, for instance. Excel is fast, it's accurate, it makes tracking payments simple, there's little or no mystery about what's going to happen next... Excel is an insanely great product from that perspective. Anonymous ...
I can upgrade my own computer (although, admittedly, that used to be a lot easier) and, in college, I helped my mom program her VCR so many times that I could talk her through it blindly over the phone, like a tower jockey walking a non-pilot through landing a 747. It's just ...