Betamax, cleaning heads?

[blacknorth]

Originally Posted by HIPPIEDAVE Betamax was much better than VHS, I had several really good machines, anyone remember V2000, I had a few of those too hehe.D

I bought a Philips Video2000 machine on ebay a couple of years ago, along with a stack of tapes with 80's TV recordings and a head cleaner. I set the machine up, put in one of the tapes and it played, not too badly. There was some picture interference - the tape had what I think was an old BBC Screen Two on it - two women on a remote farm or something. Happy days I thought, I'll just use the head cleaner to sort the interference.

Well, the machine never worked again after I used the head cleaner. I tried to bring it back from the ded by manually cleaning it but it was a goner.