GoVideo DVR5000 DVD-VCR Combo
VCR going bad after a year or so
My GoVideo DVR5000 DVD/VCR combo worked well for quite a while, but now the VCR half is starting to go bad.  I'm not sure how long I've had it - at least a year, maybe closer to two.  Recently, when I play back videos recorded with this unit, the tint is frequently (but not always) off for the top third of the screen.  At first I thought I was imagining it, but then I started noticing backgrounds that should be a solid color changed color towards the top of the screen.  For example, I was watching an interview that was conducted against an all-blue background, but towards the top of the picture the background turned more and more green.  Things that should be red near the top of the screen are usually purple.<br />After a lot of playing around with various tapes, and then playing around with the connections in the back of the player, I think I've narrowed the problem down to the composite video output jack.  When I switched from using that to using the coaxial video output, the problem went away.  But that's not really a solution, so I bought a new player and moved the Go Video to another room where the TV uses coaxial.<br />Oddly, the composite video problem only seemed to affect the VCR half of the unit, and not the DVD half.<br />I haven't had many problems with the DVD half of the unit.  It will occasionally freeze up, or refuse to read a DVD when I first put it in the player, but after a few tries it eventually reads them.<br />I'm really bummed that the VCR is going bad, because other than that problem I really like this unit.  I've been reading reviews to decide what to get as a replacement, and it doesn't seem like anyone makes a reliable DVD/VCR combination anymore.