Hey guys...uh...hi :miz:
I've kinda been AWOL, but I'm still alive and well. Still playing (or hoping to play) golf but haven't had the winter for it this year. Still working on fitness, triathlons, health, and almost done law school. Yay.
To the point...everyone here has always had great recommendations re products, so I figured I'd ask. Our DVD recorder was a piece of trash and needed to be replaced. Our VCR as well. SWMBO isn't willing to go VCR'less just yet, best I can tell. I'm hoping to find an all-round positive solution to this mess.
I'm leaning towards HD DVDrs, she's leaning towards the cheapest DVD player/vcr combo unit possible
her - "we'll just tape things on the VCR!" -
me - "oh, you mean those things that keep screwing up 75% of the way through any given episode of ANYTHING you record?" -
her - "right, good point."
so I'm wearing her down and going in the right direction...but I don't have much of a starting place
What do you guys use and/or recommend?
We have full cable included in our rent - they just got digital upstairs, so if we got a digital cable box, we could have whatever programming they choose upstairs. We have crappy, unimpressive TVs. No fancy A/V systems in here.
Thoughts are appreciated!
I've kinda been AWOL, but I'm still alive and well. Still playing (or hoping to play) golf but haven't had the winter for it this year. Still working on fitness, triathlons, health, and almost done law school. Yay.
To the point...everyone here has always had great recommendations re products, so I figured I'd ask. Our DVD recorder was a piece of trash and needed to be replaced. Our VCR as well. SWMBO isn't willing to go VCR'less just yet, best I can tell. I'm hoping to find an all-round positive solution to this mess.
I'm leaning towards HD DVDrs, she's leaning towards the cheapest DVD player/vcr combo unit possible
her - "we'll just tape things on the VCR!" -
me - "oh, you mean those things that keep screwing up 75% of the way through any given episode of ANYTHING you record?" -
her - "right, good point."
so I'm wearing her down and going in the right direction...but I don't have much of a starting place
What do you guys use and/or recommend?
We have full cable included in our rent - they just got digital upstairs, so if we got a digital cable box, we could have whatever programming they choose upstairs. We have crappy, unimpressive TVs. No fancy A/V systems in here.
Thoughts are appreciated!