I earned a $75 visa gift card, two $25 gift cards, a $25 gift card from best buy and a $10 gift card from best buy in the last couple of weeks from my work. So I combined them all together and bought a new DVD recorder.

This is bringing me right to the edge of not needing a VCR, if I haven't passed that already. Anything that I want to keep forever, I can transfer to DVD. My normal "watch and erase" recording is covered by my TIVO. What few things I have on VHS can be transferred to DVD.

Plus, I needed a new DVD player anyways. My original one was having more and more trouble reading discs. I was playing more and more discs on my playstation these days.

I've played around a bit with my new toy over the weekend. I'm finding that using the six hour speed is not such a great idea. I'll try the four hour speed next. I don't really care if it's top-notch quality. I just want it to be presentable.