That happened with my previous combo. The VCR was starting to get weary by the beginning of 2019, and then a few months later it ate whatever tape I put in.
I called it quits there mainly because my dvd section was also starting to act up and sometimes it took awhile for it to even recognize a disc was in there. With this one, my vcr section is fine but my dvd section is toast. So at this point I’m pretty much just using this for the vcr until it decides to crap up on me.