On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 15:13:07 GMT, peterw@u.genie.co.uk (Peter Watkinson) wrote:

>We have an Akai video model no. VS-F410EK and the top of the picture
>on the TV is slightly skewed mainly on pre-recorded tapes - on
>recorded tapes it's mainly OK. Is the a common problem with Akai VCRs?
>Does it happen with other makes of Video recorders? Does anyone know
>of a possible solution?

Welcome to the wunnerful worl' o' Macrovision,
a copy-protection system. Some VCRs are more
sensitive to it than others, and you can sometimes
improve things with "little black box" copy-protection
removers...