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Originally Posted by moon
Out of curiosity why is the PVR worth it no doubt?
Doesn't seem to be any better than a VCR form what I have seen of them. Maybe I am missing something with them.
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The biggest difference is simply the quality.
With your HDTV plasma, regular Standard Definition (SD) will look awful. It will look grainy, blocky, blurry, and generally pathetic. Think of a cheap VHS tape recorded on over and over, say 500 times, and then played back in a VCR with a dirty head. SD will look about that bad!
You will find that all you watch is HD programming. In order to record that, you would need a HD VCR, which are rare, and where/are very expensive. A regular VCR cannot record HD. So, you need the HD-PVR in order to record your HD programming.
I'm telling you that you need a PVR just to replace the functionality you'll lose from removing your VCR. In addition, you get a lot of convienent features (already pointed out). The only catch? The small Hard Drives they put in the latest PVR's (on Bell and Shaw) only hold 25 hours of HD programming.