Arsvita VCR Head Cleaner Tape for VHS/VCR Players, Wet Type, ARVC-3

Wish I got the dry one because the compartment the liquid is stored is cheaply made, but it works soooo well. Very clear picture.

Terrible quality. Cheap and does not work. The tape inside the VHS casing gets stuck and pulls out of VHS case. It only plays for a few seconds and shuts off which does not allow it to clean the VCR heads at all.

My VCR is OLD and stopped working. I remember these vcr cleaning tapes from when I was a kid and was so glad to find a few options. I went with this one, ran it through twice, and my VCR is playing tapes again!

I bought this for my family because we couldn’t watch the tapes. Figured it might have been the very old player. Turned out the player just didn’t work anymore. Tried using it on another player we had but the tape had got stuck inside. Not sure if I misused it. Luckily the tape did not tear! We played our old tapes to watch and it worked, ig we didn’t need it completely. But we have it just in case we ever do.

Likely just like you, I have a VHS player that could not properly read tapes. I'm digitizing some tapes that likely haven't been played in decades, and are likely to be very dirty. Low and behold, after the first few tapes, I could not play anything else. No video or audio would come through. TLDR: My heads needed cleaning, shocker. You certainly get what you pay for with this "tape". The reels are loose and feel like there's almost nothing holding them in. My VHS player had a hard time moving it around, and it even gave up a few times (Assuming that it's a safety feature of the player, so that it doesn't rip tapes apart). After a few tries, though, I got it to play, and it did a good job cleaning. Good enough that I now get video and audio again. I did have to manually rewind the tape a bit, though. The reels make this item lose a star, but otherwise it worked as advertised.

Product performs as expected.

Do NOT buy this product: As other have reviewed, it IS true that is could potentially mess up your VCR. This is exactly what happened to me. Followed the directions, put the unit in, pressed play. Then, a noise and it stopped. It kicked the tape out and the white paperish thing that cleans it was all pulled out. I was able to get the tape out. When I went to put a real VHS tape in, it wouldn't go in. It was if something was stuck. So, I took the cover off and played around with it the hunges on the left and right moving from side to side and finally I heard a click and now my VCR is back to normal. My recommendation is to purchase a non fabric cloth that is smooth like those you would use on your eye glasses. Open the case if you're comfortable, fine the big silver head that has lines along the side. This is the Video Drum Head. You can put some Isyprobol (not rubbing alcohol) alcohol on the cloth. Then press gently side of the drum (the reading part) and then with your fingers, spin the head a few times. This cleaned my video head perfectly.

As a whole, the unit works as advertised. It cleaned up my VHS player that I hadn't used in years. I was able to convert VHS to digital on dozens of home movies. The tapes and the unit were so dirty, I ended up buying multiple cleaners to use after every couple of tapes to keep up the quality of these 30+ year old videos. Especially the first couple, the quality of the video was awful, but after using the cleaning tape (which came out almost black from all the neglect), the quality markedly improved. The caveats: These units are very cheaply made. In order to make them work properly I had to push my finger in the bottom where the gears are (the part you would turn to rewind it, if too much comes out) and then make sure they are centered. Seems the tolerances are too big and the sprocket wheel tends to slide to one side and get stuck when inserted. I also had to take the cover off the VCR because every so often, even using the above procedure, the sprockets wouldn't align properly once inserted and the cleaning tape would spew out into the inside of the unit. There isn't that much cleaning tape, so it wasn't a big issue. Just annoying. Make sure the tape isn't wound around anything important, eject the tape, manually rewind, align the sprockets and insert again. All in all, you get what you pay for and for the price, it did what it was supposed to do, as long as you are willing to do some monkeying around.

Perfect. I used it for the liquid to clean my Beta player. The liquid does a nice job. Thank you.

Cheap flimsy piece of garbage. Waste of money. I put this into my good working Sony vcr and ran it. Tried to eject and it wouldn’t come out. I had to pry it out with a screwdriver and found that one of the reels in the cleaner was jambed and the tape got all tangled inside the unit. Had to tear the tape to get it out. You know as soon as you remove this cleaning tape from the package, that its very cheaply made garbage. Spend a few dollars more and get a better one. I’m happy that I didn’t damage the player with this garbage.

Price Is Excellent & at my door& It Works !

A fait le travail bon résultat

Works.