Sony Premium Grade T-120 VHS Tapes used to be pretty darn good. These days that is not the case. The past few times that I have bought these tapes to record movies from the satellite dish,there have been to many flaws with the tape. One problem has been a line through the middle of the picture,like you sometimes have when you rent a movie thats about 20 years old,and also there have been jumping pictures,and small audio flaws as well. I use various brands of videotape,so I know that the problem lies here with the Sony videotape. Basically the record about as well as a tape you have recorded on over and over and over. They show too much wear way too soon. Get Maxell tapes instead.