Hello Everyone . Here's a question/suggestion...Build a mod so I can play my 8-9 year old vhs tapes(rec in "EP" )in  a vhs player that I just bought which only has sp and lp playback.Maybe a dimmer switch to reduce power to the device?

EP/SLP is short for extended play. Extended play is similar to LP, but actually provides you even more recording time. EP was primarily used to document long, continuous events without the need to change video tapes every 2 hours. Due to the fact that the video is not of optimal quality, many times this setting was not used in order to preserve the quality of your footage. Tapes recorded at EP usually are the most problematic after years of storage, displaying a wide variety of tape damage symptoms including color loss, audio loss, frame skipping, and tracking issues.

EP/SLP is short for extended play. Extended play is similar to LP, but actually provides you even more recording time. EP was primarily used to document long, continuous events without the need to change video tapes every 2 hours. Due to the fact that the video is not of optimal quality, many times this setting was not used in order to preserve the quality of your footage. Tapes recorded at EP usually are the most problematic after years of storage, displaying a wide variety of tape damage symptoms including color loss, audio loss, frame skipping, and tracking issues.

Yes All this I know  but I had a addiction back in the day and I had to record everything on tv and when I finished waching what I rec. I would rec. over it, I usually recorded 5 times before throwing tape away because of the tape quallity.. I recorded series mostly and I can't watch ep 3 before watching ep 1 and 2 so I was constantly recording. Over the years I would rec a full tape,then watch the epesods of the series in order so I could follow the story.......trying to make this short lol! anyway I was recording more a week than I could watch and over the years my collection of 8 hour tapes is probably well over 300...maybe almost 400 ....never counted I got over my addiction of having to rec  (the last tape recorded was sometime in 2013)   but i can't seem to be able to get rid of all the tapes without watching them first. The thought of throwing them away before watching them makes me sick to the  stomach LOL!   By the way... The first 100 or so tapes I recorded in lp till I started recording close to 7 or 8 hours a day.....EP to the rescue LOL I am still watching the tapes, now with my new vhs/dvd player (FUNAI) in order....and am in the year 2007......Hello, my name is Robert, And I am a vhs-oholic