DVD players are relatively cheap today.  You can get "off-brand" for seventy
bucks or less.  Most of these are made by the same factory in PRC or South
Korea.  Mechanically, DVD players are much simpler than VCRs, so the cheapie
DVD players last longer than the cheapie VCRs.  We purchased a "Symphony"
DVD player Jan. 2001 for $65 as an electronics store loss-leader and it has
many hundreds hours play time on it with no problems.

Another good alternative is to get a NTSC video out card for your PC and
connect your TV to your computer.

Kyle

-----Original Message-----
From: BG Greer, PhD [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 12:57 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: i feel really rather pathedic at times


In a message dated 6/10/2003 9:16:13 PM Central Standard Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:


> am i the only one with this kind of block? i am hoping
> that dvd recorders come soon so i can record dvds for
> later viewing becouse vhs is getting to be hard to get
> in the latest movies. but, if i had a dvd recorder, i
> do not even know that i could get it to work given my
> record with the vcr.
>