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by jcmil2 on January 10th, 2009
It's my understanding that you don't need any special equipment if you get cable, not even a digital TV.
Does anyone use a vcr? what format?
by bradleyt98 on January 2nd, 2011
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Do you still use a VCR?
by Ibanezmb on July 30th, 2010
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Does VCR support parental controls?
by XT on June 3rd, 2010
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Does the video type matter quality wise if 2 different video types have same bitrate?
by JohnS54816 on August 13th, 2010
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While recording, the electricity went out. Now, the vcr records snow. TV is fine. Checked connections, all is fine? What else do I check?
by Anij on October 30th, 2010
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You're reading I have been running cable through my VCR without needing a cable box. My question is this: After the digital changeover, can I run the same sort of setup using a VCR with a digital tuner?
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Whilst Bluesman may indeed be just fine, it may be the case that that applies only if the person subscribes to digital cable, as opposed to purely analog cable. Otherwise, cable or not, they may lose at least some of their existing analog channels and will not necessarily receive any of the new multicast channels.
As well as the government mandated switch to digital only broadcasting, some cable companies have also been doing their own separate and different transition, using the confusion around the DTV transition to hide the fact that they're moving channels from analog to digital and charging their customers more when they are forced to move up from basic analog to basic digital. Bluesman, check that your cable company is not moving your analog channels to digital any time soon and that you will in fact be able to hook up your connection straight to the convertor box without losing any channels.
See here for more details:
http://redtape.msnbc.com/2008/07/the-other-digit.html
by Anon y mouse on January 10th, 2009
Great comment... too bad I can't give it points. Here where I live, Comcast is transitioning all of its non-local channels to digital in the next couple of months. So if you have anything other than the lowest tier of service, you will need a cable box, or a DVR with a cableCard slot or two (e.g. HD TiVo).
by yeroco on January 10th, 2009