On 25/11/2011 18:49, Mark Carver wrote:
On 25/11/2011 18:42, J G Miller wrote:
On Friday, November 25th, 2011 at 18:14:33h +0000, Graham. wrote:

I had a VHS tape that would stop playing if a light was turned on

A particular VHS cassette, or do you mean a particular VHS cassette
player?

Something to do with the infra red control on the machine?

Assuming a particular deck, Optical sensor for the tape end ? Light was
leaking into the machine, and triggering the tape transport to stop ?

Precisely that.
The machine was a Hitachi top loader and the tape was a pre recorded one
in a yellow translucent cassette of cartoons belonging to my daughter.


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Graham.

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