I've been archiving shows on my S-VHS-ET machines, but lately most brands of tape have dissapeared from Walgreens (where I usually get my tape) and many other places have stoped carying tape all together so awhile back I bought two DVD recorders (I did want two, but one won't record so I'm still looking for one
). I'm trying to switch to DVD only archiving as I'm sick of the small errors in tape surface, etc. that create occasional black horizontal line in the picture and noise pulse in the HIFI track, and it is easier, and less time consumeing to edit out comercials, etc in DVD format after puting the discs on my computer using some software I bought a while back. This will facilitate editing and back up quite well once I get a larger external hard drive, and stop archiving the series that are currently being finished up on VHS. I also need to figure out why the timer record isn't working right. I like DVD as I don't have or particularly waht a HD TV, and know that DVD will continue to be supported for a decent amount of time. I have no doubt that I can keep my tube color sets running as long as I live and have enough spare VCRs that I don't wory about them loosing them all to wear.
Tom C.