I have a canon ES 970 I was wondering, whether its possible to re use the cassette I have already recorded once on it and I have so many cassettes collected

It is often a bad idea to buy dual cassette type decks. They never work very well except for one unit I have seen which was the Sony ES model. It was not cheap at $1200 a unit. You might get it to work but the performance of these is poor even when new. Avoid dual cassette deck at all costs.

donaldws1018 I was wondering if the static problem was resolved yet. I have a pair of the VR970's that don't sound so good either.

There should be a button or switch that will select the recording deck and the dubbing deck. You put a blank tape into the recording deck and the pre-recorded one into the play deck. Pressing the record button on the dubbing deck, on some models should start the play deck running. If not press play on that deck.

No they are erected as a unit, then the house is built around it.

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Hi Andrew,
If You buy Canon Cassette feeder Unit-ad 1 please go this link
Canon iR 3570 C3200 C5030 C5180 Cassette Feed Roller Kit

From your question, it sounds like you are trying to view a video which has already been recorded on. If that is correct, the video cassette may need to be rewound to the beginning of the tape,

there are programs on the net that will copy from tape to cd via the computer if you have a cd writer on the pc hope this helps regards Jim

Take the side panel off to see whether the tape is damaged and will not retreat into the cassette ( this will prevent ejection ). Remove old damaged cassette and insert new one. If the unit chews the new cassette camera should go in for VTR service.

Have you taken a look at the edge of the tape? tracks 1 and 2 on a cassette are usually next to the edge and you may have a bad batch of tapes that have the edge damaged. Another possible but not a likley problem might be the tape is out of spec. for the width, and your heads MAY have a little wear from use, and are trying to act like tape guides. If the tape is slightly wider than the grove worn in the head, the tape would be lifted at the edge and not make contact to the head. It is not electronic as you have diagnosed this with other tapes. Give it a try and see!