On Jan 16, 11:34*am, "Tomsic" wrote:
"Jules Richardson" wrote in message

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On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:38:28 -0500, Tomsic wrote:
The VCR worked great; but it doesn't make sense to use tape any more.

Why not? I mean, if it didn't do what they needed, or supplies (i.e.
tapes) were hard to get hold of, then OK - but you say it worked great,
so I assume neither of those were a problem (otherwise it wouldn't be
great :-)

Yes, that's logical. *Tapes will work and they might even be an economical
choice at the moment. *But, the TV signal has to go through the converter
box for analog recording and the tapes have to be played back via the analog
TV.

And with a VCR you're not going to record anything in
HD. SVHS at best.


Once that TV dies, *there's a useless VCR and a stack of tapes that
would have to be converted.

Yes, I know there are analog to digital converters. *I have one of those,
but I'm less than happy with the picture quality.

I appreciate all of the good suggestions. *Seems like the market still needs
some better choices though.

Thanks,

Tomsic