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A friend of mine called me in a panic this week, his Sony Betamax was playing pictures full of white lines and ripples on his TV set. “Sounds like drop-out,” my friend said. “Wait a minute though, the cassette that made the white lines on the screen was sitting on the window sill for two days before I used it.