Death of video recorder in sight

"The death of the video cassette recorder appears to be in sight after the UK's largest electrical chain said it is to stop selling them." (BBC)

It makes total sense. It is not uncommon to see the average DVD player sold for $40 and stand-alone DVD recorders can be found for less than $200.

The prices of blank DVD-R discs are falling like a rock and unlike analog tapes, the image quality does not deteriorate, regardless of the number of times it is being used.

Personally, I prefer a hard disk based Digital Video Recorder (DVR) because I don't archive the shows that I record. There are Disk Drives DVR & DVD-R combos available too.