Too many of my tapes have a line damn near halfway through the picture. If you track it until it goes away, the picture shakes more than Precious' fat rolls. Before I had my own recorder, I used another person's with their VCR connected to it and could transfer practically any tape with no lines, no shaky picture, nothing. And some of my recorded tapes still transfer pretty well, but I have some that just won't and it annoys me.