20 Most Recent Goldstar GVR-DD1 VHS VCR Questions & Answers

Check these pictures that shows the assembly sequence and the parts list for your device.

This is the number one failure mode for a tape machine.
One drive is used to pull the tape out and run it across the heads very accurately, and another drive is used to pull the tape back into the cassette. This one uses a clutch to allow it to slip so that the takeup reel in the cassette can vary in speed depending on how much tape is on it. After a few years, it slips too much and can't pull the tape in fast enough. (older units use rubber idler wheels to do the same thing)
Either tighten up the clutch, or replace the rubber wheel.
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Is this a player or a camcorder?
Being a long time used unit it probably needs its rubber parts serviced which is consistant with your problem.

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Usaly there is a button on the remote for input but if you do not have that you might try changing chanels below chanel 1. Some Goldstars hide the front input down there

This is the problem with these combo units. When the VCR has trouble (this sounds like a mechanical one) it inhibits the TV from working as well cause they share the same power supply. It needs a VCR expert to fix ya up.
I tell people all the time not to buy these combo units unless they really need the conveinience cause you get to throw away the TV when the VCR goes bad.

Even the service manuals are pretty bad at helping with mech problems like this. You just have to be very mechanically inclined to figure it out. A lot of VCR mechs are very similar however so this is where experience helps. You do need to get the circuit board off however. Usually a few screws up from the bottom. Pretty smart huh! - put the least reliable parts (the belts) in the hardest place to get to. Look carefully for little broken plastic pieces. gear teeth etc. Since the motors work some of the time, they are not the problem. Could be the mode switches are out of time. They are a set of switch contacts buried in the mech which tell the brain what position the mech is in. Move the load motor by hand (I use a 5V power supply with a fwd/rev switch so I can run it back and forth and watch the action.
Goldstars are good mechs. They make a ton of them and pretty well get the design bugs out, but of course those little plastic parts break easily.
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VCR's automatically detect what speed the present tape was recorded at. It only gives you a choice of speeds when doing the recording. If you are saying that it won't playback a tape recorded in one of the slow speeds, it is most likely because VCR's with more than two heads use different combinations of them in different speeds and the ones used for slow speeds are maybe needing cleaning. If this is the case, the vcr will seem to be playing OK, but the video playback will be bad.

The alarm message usually means that the tape didn't load properly.  Instead of trying to play the tape and destroy it, the unit will just stop.  A common problem is that the tape heads don't spin.  Without a cushion of air between the heads and the tape, the tape will get ruined.  Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but this is a repair that needs to be done by a tech.  The positions of the tape and heads are very touchy and have to be perfect.  I would try to find a repair center that can give you a good estimate and then determine for yourself if repairing the unit is cost effective.


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