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What have you done with your VCR?

I have an old Sony VCR (SLV-750HF). It works great, as good as it did the day I got it over a decade ago. All those features and buttons...all I ever did was hit play and stop. It has been sitting in its box (with everything it came with, even the little twisties and baggies stuff comes in...sigh...am I the only one who keeps *everything*?) for over two years. I can't remember the last time I used it. I have two - yes, two - video tapes that I bought. (I never watched them more than once, but, you know, I could if I wanted to.)

I want to get rid of it, and I don't think I'll ever need it (but you never know...). (I'm still in apartment living, and it just seems to take up space.)

Do you still have your VCR?
If you do, do you still use it, or does it collect dust?
If not, what did you do with it?

dailW

Re: What have you done with your VCR?

mines still hooked up to the lcd i have. play movies from time to time on it.

Phil A

Re: What have you done with your VCR?

I have one hooked up in by basement system which barely gets used (sometimes daytime sporting events in HD over the winter on my old 64 inch CRT). Every few yrs. perhaps someone asks me to put an old vacation tape or old tape of their kids onto DVD and I usually bring it upstairs and dub it onto DVD for them with the DVD recorder. It was used last about 2 yrs. ago to play back a recorded TV show for someone (I did not record it but we were watching a football game upstairs on the 100 inch screen and the women wanted to watch Desparate Housewives from last week so it made it easy as the person recorded it on VHS).

MielR

Re: What have you done with your VCR?

I still use mine occasionally. There are times when I'm out and there are two things on TV that I want to watch that happen to be on at the same time. In those cases I use the DVD-recorder to record one and the VCR for recording the other.

I'm also still in the process of transferring old tapes onto DVD-R.

DarrenHo

Re: What have you done with your VCR?

i still use mine to record tv. no dvr here. use it a couple times a week.

LanceJ

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^ my answer is the same as Darren's.

Though I am a MST3K fan so use it 4-5 times a week to watch one of the many episodes I have on VHS* and the numerous movies in that format I own that aren't quite good enough to blow $15 for the disc version.

* when I get a dvd recorder I'll transfer them but due to reports and personal experience with CD-Rs and DVD-R discs randomly failing even when taken care of (unstable ink?), I will not be throwing out those tapes anytime soon. Actually I have tapes that are almost 15 years that still work perfectly.

Andrew Pratt

Re: What have you done with your VCR?

We still use ours...as a clock

TylerZ

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Got 3: one in the family room system, one in the kids basement recroom system, and one VCR/DVD recorder in the kitchen. Gotta agree with Andrew Pratt, the clock has been the only thing that is used on the FR and RR systems. I guess I'm too lazy to move the racks away from the wall and disconnect them.

Cameron Yee

Re: What have you done with your VCR?

Which begs the question, why don't DVD players have clocks on them? I've never owned a DVD recorder so do those have the clock function?

mylan

Re: What have you done with your VCR?

I would imagine it is because the VCR has a timer, and tuner, so that you can see if the clock is set correctly to record your show.
I still have the one and only one I ever bought, a Mitsubishi 4 head, that cost over $400 when new in '92. I was thinking of buying another one to record more than one show but got TIVO instead four years ago. That VCR hasn't been fired up since shortly there-after except for watching our wedding video once. I'll probably disconnect it one of these days since it is just taking up space.

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