On Jan 30, 11:01 am, "Jeff" wrote:
In Feb. 2009 when analog TV goes away you can pitch it. Unfortunately my
VCR died recently and I had to buy a new one for the next two years.


Not necessarily. Most people today have either cable or sat. With
either of these, every box I've seen still has an NTSC output that is
compatible with existing TVs and VCRs. If you rely on OTA, then you
would need a digital tuner, but you're going to need that for any TV
that doesn't already have a digital tuner. And if you have an old
VCR, I'm betting it's very likely you're going to have a TV that
doesn't have a digital tuner too. Plus the VCR still plays all your
old tapes, so no need to chuck anything.




"sherwindu" wrote in ...



My 10 year old Sony VCR ran out of time this year and the clock cannot be
reset
to
2007. Sony told me to set it to 2001, which they claim will do the same
job. I
tried it and so far it works for January, 2007 (gets the right day of the
week). How much
could it have cost Sony to extend the original clock beyond 10 years? The
VCR
is still very servicable, although I never could fix the capacitor that
holds up
the memory for supposedly 3 hours in a power outage. Now I have to reset
it for
even
the shortest power outages. It's probably tricky, because the last VCR
tech who
tried to fix that said he couldn't find the right capacitor to do the job.

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