I've never heard of one with a VCR built in - they may exist (maybe you've researched it?) but I'd be surprised if they're easy to find; VCRs are dying out as a technology.
If you want a built-in DVD player/recorder, that's a different animal. I once had one with a built-in DVD recorder and it was pointless. This was several years ago and the tech may have changed, but at the time, the quality of the image was nowhere near as clean as what I would get if I .. um... ahem'd the episode on my computer and burned it to DVD. Plus, the DVR recognized copy protect software, so there was lots of stuff I couldn't record at all. And, I don't know what kind of TV set up you have, but I just have a regular TV and cable. Many stations broadcast widescreen shows in standard size format - i.e., they chop off the edges so that, say, Supernatural, which is a widescreen image, doesn't appear with letterboxing but loses part of the image on the sides. If you record that to a DVD, you still have the same problem- but if you... ahem the episode, you'll get the full widescreen.
If you have cable, I recommend contacting your cable company. Many of them offer DVRs instead of a regular cable box. You pay a higher monthly fee, but they work well, they coordinate well with your cable, you can record two shows at once, etc.
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Date: 2009-03-14 05:03 pm (UTC)I've never heard of one with a VCR built in - they may exist (maybe you've researched it?) but I'd be surprised if they're easy to find; VCRs are dying out as a technology.
If you want a built-in DVD player/recorder, that's a different animal. I once had one with a built-in DVD recorder and it was pointless. This was several years ago and the tech may have changed, but at the time, the quality of the image was nowhere near as clean as what I would get if I .. um... ahem'd the episode on my computer and burned it to DVD. Plus, the DVR recognized copy protect software, so there was lots of stuff I couldn't record at all. And, I don't know what kind of TV set up you have, but I just have a regular TV and cable. Many stations broadcast widescreen shows in standard size format - i.e., they chop off the edges so that, say, Supernatural, which is a widescreen image, doesn't appear with letterboxing but loses part of the image on the sides. If you record that to a DVD, you still have the same problem- but if you... ahem the episode, you'll get the full widescreen.
If you have cable, I recommend contacting your cable company. Many of them offer DVRs instead of a regular cable box. You pay a higher monthly fee, but they work well, they coordinate well with your cable, you can record two shows at once, etc.