I wanted to transfer some 30 year old videos recently and thought that my video camera was faulty, I couldn’t playback any of the tapes at all, just fuzzy image on the camera. Two option , (1) buy a refurbished camera , option (2) buy a tape cleaner, I went for the cheaper option , my problem was fixed right away and without any hassle, just insert the tape,press play wait until the tape ends, eject it and that’s it.