My VHS VCR of about 10 years just died, and my VCR with S-VHS appears
likely to die shortly.
Oh! All my tapes of my children that I intended to transfer to DVD from
20 years ago but never did may be lost; recording the latest
presidential debate tonight might not happen if the S-VHS fails.
For TV, I have both a roof-top antenna and a satellite dish. The
roof-top antenna delivers a better picture than satellite, plus I can
receive distant TV stations that I can't receive with satellite.
I am aware that (1) analog TV is nearly over, and (2) TiVo is a digital
recorder alternative. But my understanding of TiVo is that is mostly a
rental arrangement with monthly payments. I am paying almost $300 per
month already in digital stuff (cell phones, $130 or more; satellite TV
$80; internet $45; ground phone $45), so I don't want to add more
monthly payments to what I used to get for free.
Question: can you tell an old fuddy-duddy where to learn about what
options might be available for digital VCRs, that are actually owned by
me instead of rented, to record off the satellite and off the coming
digital signals? An ability to play analog VHS would be a plus. (So
far I still have a Beta recorder.)
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