VCR's are going away, unfortunately. I'm guessing yours is at least three years old. It's hard when the new technology turns over every 18 months or so, and planned obsolescence for items like that is like your average light bulb.

Oh, absolutely correct -- and, yes, the VCR was ancient (though newer than the other option, which didn't have stereo inputs). But the doggoned 75-ohm connections are still around, even on some DVD recorders -- and they're just nasty, with sharp hexagonic nuts and a needle that has to line up PRECISELY in order to permit the nuts to be turned. Snarl. (Not helped by the fact that, briefly, the Panasonic folks was making equipment that lodged the 75-ohm input in a recess that made the hexagon almost inaccessible.)