On Sep 6, 9:23 pm, OldBill wrote:
bugbear wrote:
Two nights ago my VCR refused to play a tape;
the tape was already in, and had been recorded

Its last century's electro-mechanical technology. Dump it and get
something modern.
Skip DVD recorders which are last year's gadgets and get a harddisk
recorder.

How do you archive material when the disk is full? What happens when
the disk fails and you lose everything as you were unable to archive
all your favourite material?

I suggest you keep the DVD recorder.

MBQ