Bonnie, do you know, one time he calls me at one in the morning and says he needs a VCR?
"The real problem with PVRs is that, to make them different from VCRs, they need a great electronic programme guide," says Gartner's Mr O'Donovan.
Similarly, to transfer video from a VCR, camcorder or any other video input, computers need a graphics capture card, a video-port and audio-port adapter, which itself costs about $200.
For the full set features you'll need a newer Sony video camcorder (AVCHD), but it already has so many features that any manufacturer's camcorder/VCR will do fine.
This basically eliminates most of the need for a VCR, or for Blockbuster Video rental stores, because the Net gives you access to what amounts to a gigantic on-line video store — all past TV shows, movies, and lots of other rich data collections".
For computers without a video capture card and software, there are kits that promise everything needed to connect a VCR to a computer to convert the tapes.
The device works with a video recording card, sold separately, that enables it to capture video and audio directly from TV sets, VCRs and stereo systems, without needing a PC acting as a middleman.
Radio has long needed an equivalent to the TV's VCR.
No longer will people need separate VCRs, cable TV boxes, satellite decoder boxes or video game consoles like the Sony PlayStation.
She was eyeballing the automated ticket machine like it was a VCR that needed programming.
