My latest VHS Player Find

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Originally Posted by Captainclock

Well the Oscilloscope I have has its original manual with it but its an older unit that has tubes in it (the really small five pin tubes) so I don't know if the manual will say anything about how to check video paths on a VCR o not (at least not a VHS unit, maybe a U-Matic deck unit but not a VHS unit).

That will be covered in a VCR service manual. They will probably tell you to sync to the square wave from the head switching, but I usually just set the scope sync on "line" so it syncs to 60 Hz AC line freq. Anyway, once you see enough of them you'll almost instinctively know where to look for that test point to hook to. Some mfgrs used a common name like "TP6" or "RF-TP" across many models.