Ah, a person after my own heart! All my friends here are always raving about how much they love TIVO, and I can't really justify that much money when I have a perfectly functional VCR. It's true that it is getting harder to *find* blank tapes any more (and most of my local video stores should now be called DVD stores, since you can't rent VHS any more), but fortunately my VCR is fairly new, so with luck it will keep functioning for a while.

I wish I still had a dual cassette player--the last one I had wore out after I copied an old roommates' entire cassette collection one week right before I moved out.