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Why don't you just use an old computer and a few tuners to it
and get better quality and very little wear & tear.
sagetv.com is what I use with 4 analog tuners and two HD tuners.
But there are others were software that is free as well.

I had 4 replaytv because I did not want to pay monthly fees of tivo.
But sold them when I switched to sagetv.
FAR better than tape any day of the week.

Ray

On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 09:05:35 -0700, Chops\ wrote:
>>>=A0EP mode was VERY common, and pretty much universally
>>>=A0compatible. It had
>>>=A0a recording time of 3X SP, so a 120 tape would record 6 hours,
>>>=A0a 160, 8
>>>=A0hours. I've also heard of 10 hour tapes, but I felt that 160s
>>>=A0were already pushing tape thinness a little far.
>>>
>
>=A0We've got something like 4 VHS VCRs in our home, all recording
>=A0"stuff" in 3x mode (what you call EP and some of the recorders call
>=A0SLP. =A0Six hours per tape.) =A0Tapes move "ok" between machines (som=
e
>=A0loss of quality; especially: "audio sounds odd.") =A0We don't save
>=A0anything; all those machines are for time-shifting. =A0Presumably, if
>=A0"quality" were an issue, we wouldn't need 4 VCRs; no tape
>=A0technology is capable of improving the quality of much of American
>=A0Television! (I won't speak for other countries.)
>=A0A beta recorder with 2H recording capability would never have been
>=A0a starter (the TIVO upgraded with a 300GB drive is nice, though!)
>=A0(Of course, by the time I bought my first VCR, Beta was pretty much
>=A0gone. =A0It's all my wife's fault.)
>
>=A0So Beta had higher "quality", but VHS had longer record time and
>=A0lower prices. =A0Seems like there's room for a lot of argument on
>=A0which was "better engineered."
>
>=A0BillW




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