Well, obviously you haven't used a ReplayTV. In fact, you can do all the stuff you want to do with ReplayTV with no subscription--it has a manual record option like your VCR. However, it's far easier to have a program listing on your ReplayTV. I can, for example, tell it to record any five most recent episodes of the Simpsons on any channel whenever they happen to be on. It will just record them day after day without my having to mess with it. If the network changes the time it starts, that's no problem. It will adjust. Your VCR can't do that. Nor can it do any of the other nice things, like recording 20/30/60/150 hours of programming without having to change any tapes, and jump right to the episode you want to see when you want it. Not to mention skip the annoying commercials.
Once I got a ReplayTV, my VCR was effectively dead. I only keep it around to play old tapes.
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Well, obviously you haven't used a ReplayTV. In fact, you can do all the stuff you want to do with ReplayTV with no subscription--it has a manual record option like your VCR. However, it's far easier to have a program listing on your ReplayTV. I can, for example, tell it to record any five most recent episodes of the Simpsons on any channel whenever they happen to be on. It will just record them day after day without my having to mess with it. If the network changes the time it starts, that's no problem. It will adjust. Your VCR can't do that. Nor can it do any of the other nice things, like recording 20/30/60/150 hours of programming without having to change any tapes, and jump right to the episode you want to see when you want it. Not to mention skip the annoying commercials.
Once I got a ReplayTV, my VCR was effectively dead. I only keep it around to play old tapes.