Last year, when I got a quote of $65 to repair the VCR, and Target had a SONY VCR/DVD combo for $125 bucks..I bought it...The durn manual is like 200 pages...and probably written in Japanese originally, then translated in pigdin English by an outsourced Pakisgtani..trying to record a show on the VCR while simultaneously watching a DVD is totally beyond my abilities.. I've failed abjectly, miserably, . I both stuned and beebed by it.. This Christmas I'm gonna buy a DVDR ..screw the tapes...going digital all the way baby...
I just got the HD-DVR box from Comcast. It's really kewl. You can record anything or 2 things at once, and it stores up to 60 hours.
All for an extra$9.98 a month. The HD box without the DVR was $5.00 extra so it's really only an extra 5 bucks.
MY suggestion, don't wait till Christmas, do it NOW.
You owe me a keyboard, I laughed so hard! Get a teenager, they have all this stuff down.