The VHS
tape is still a problem. Our player doesn't seem to like it,
no picture appears but we can hear the audio moving along at something
like twice normal speed. Can anyone tell me what's up with that and if
there's some way to fix it ?
Your tape is likely in the PAL format, the European standard for TV
broadcasting. It has a different number of lines scanned per second
than the NTSC format used in the US. I think your only option here
is to find someone with a PAL VCR and get them to dub a copy onto an
NTSC VCR.
IIRC Italy uses *two* formats, both flavours of PAL. I don't know about
interoperability between the two formats.