Re: What has happened to VCRs?

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 02:22:48 GMT, The Man Behind The Curtain
<johngrabowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>I am in the market for a new VCR. It doesn't have to be anything fancy.
> A $100 model will do nicely, and even that is overkill. I just want
>the basics.
>
>Yet I'm dismayed by the choices I'm seeing.

I went through something similar. My VCR died on a Sunday and I
seriously considered upgrading to a DVD recorder, but didn't really
have time to do the research (plus my computer was in the shop -- it
had been a rough week for electronics at the Brown household).

I visited Wal-mart and they had exactly ONE model, some weird brand,
not even stereo, for $39. K-mart had a stereo RCA for $49 but were
out of stock. Best Buy had a couple for $79 and I ended up paying
$59 for a stereo Magnavox MVR650 at Target. It's AWFULLY light, but
seems to work well enough; it's got auto-tracking and the heads are
self-cleaning (supposedly).

The thing that bugs me is that all of 'em, -- all of 'em -- are
programmed by some version of repeated "up" and "down" keypresses.
Why on earth, if I want to record starting at 1:15 pm, can't I enter
115 and then a 1 or 2 for AM or PM? I know the technology exists --
my older machines were programmed this way.

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
DVD FAQ: http://dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html
other FAQs: http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/faqget.htm
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