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Sony fast fwds, rewinds, pauses, pause plays but won't play?

I gave a friend a VHS tape of a film (genuine, I think) and it has ruined his Sony VHS recorder {SLVE70} . It can do forwarding, rewinding, pausing, pause/play but won't play the tape. He put in another tape and it now does the same to this known to be ok tape ...
Poppy Smith, January 2008
The most common cause of faults such as this is a worn Play Idler or mode switch.

Tony, February 2008
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