A small furry Dennis Jenkins once said:
DJ>FI> Ouch, with 4 heads it's for sure gonna be an expensive exercise. Funny
DJ>FI> is that the hi-fi tracks seem stable when using it as a normal deck to
DJ>FI> record tv shows or dubbing and so forth, but not when audio only is
DJ>FI> rec Maybe I should do mastering with Simulcast enabled? :) 
DJ> Yeah, you need a video signal present for most vcrs to function.
Get hold of a black burst generator and feed the output into the VCR. :-)
If you don't have one of these, make one! Get an old home computer with a TV
standard output (whoops, nearly said PAL there) and connect the composite
output to the VCR input. Set the computer to display a black screen.
An old VIC-20, C64 or BBC Micro (aka Acorn Proton) is ideal for this. Type
POKE 36879,8 followed by CTRL-1 on the Commodore machines IIRC, or type
VDU12,23;8202;0;0;0;0;21 on an Acorn machine.
Other machines - pass! Should be possible though.
Glenn
... Anything not nailed down is a cat's toy
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