I'VE never seen or heard of the horizontal little line or the bar that moved across the screen.  I think they're nuts.  Sometimes the tracking would be off and there would be a blur at the top or bottom.<br><br>For that guy to say the VCR died due to belt failure tells you how little he knows and actually dumb he is.   Belts can be replaced quite easily and I'm sure there's more than a hundred websites that an appropriate belt could have been bought for quite little.<br><br>On the whole, this was a not good video, misinformed and I don't know where he got his information but we know tom scott was around during the 70s so there's that.