Video Recorders

andrewsummers

Call me old fashioned but I still tend to use video recorders rather dvd recorders and my current video recorder is broken, Where is the best place to buy a good and cheap video recorder?

James_B_2

Do places even still sell them?

Your best bet might be eBay!

magyar

Why don't you look on Freecycle?
http://uk.freecycle.org/

lamnicholas

Tesco and Asda still sell them. Around £35.

compmad1

Does anyone know of a cheap one that does VideoPlus with 2 scarts? My mum needs one. She is 78 and can't set up a recording without VideoPlus. I have tried to show her. All the cheap videos do not have VideoPlus. A combined VCR and DVD player would be OK. Any ideas? Thanks.

Trixxie

I bought my last one off eBay about 4 years ago - cost about £15 and has been brilliant. It is a Sharp stereo one with 2 scarts. We also have had a Samsung mono Videoplus (only one scart) for 6+ years with no problem. Our only disastrous one was a Matsui.

Link to VCRs on eBay:

http://electronics.listings.ebay.co.uk/VCRs_W0QQfclZ3QQfromZR11QQsacatZ3318QQsocmdZListingItemList

As I am sure you know!, you can search from there in the descriptions for the features you want and also for ones situated within pick-up distance if you don't want to pay postage.

Other places to look would be for ones advertised locally on online classified sites like adtrader.co.uk and gumtree.co.uk.

HTH
Trixxie

andrewsummers

thanks guys

dc

Have you thought about a PVR, similar to Sky+, recording onto a hard drive so no tape and the epg (prog guide) is used to set the recording times easier than Videoplus as no magazine or newspaper needed. Can be got for less than a ton.

hilstep2000

I got a combined VCR recorder and DVD player in Asda for my son's room for £64.

thegoon

theres one in toys r us for £19.99 i saw the other day

eilz

I need one of those really old vhs recorder with the big SILVER press button type recorder, the kind most peoples probably have bined for a project at home, can anyone help, knowone seems to have these anymore, anywhere not even on Ebay!