These disappeared because of the stupid aZZ copyright laws that congress has changed from temporary to permanent.
I meant the DVD recorders, from which you can then transfer the recorded movie or T.V. show, are now gone ( so we keep getting them repaired ), because the makers of TIVO and other such machines, which did NOT allow one to make discs from, petitioned the government to get rid of them, and the stinking government ( who were being paid off ) stopped the others from ever again being made. Oh, we can still do that using the upgraded cablebox we have, but it’s not an improvement.