Well, right now, ATSC stands for "Advanced Television Systems Committee"; the group that worked on the standards for HD TV. The old (mostly-U.S.) standard is NTSC, which stands for "National Television Systems Committee" (a similar, earlier committee). The term NTSC has been corrupted over time to stand for "Never Twice the Same Color". :-)
So if I understand correctly, I currently record 8 programs a week via my VCR w/out a cable box involved. At some point in the next year or so when everything goes digital, that VCRs tuner will cease to work and I'll have 2 choices:
1) Get into the 1970s version of hooking the VCR to the cable box, programming to record channel 4 and leaving the cable box on antuner to whatever channel I wish to record AND not being able to watch anything else at that point.
However, if what you do is time shift, IE record a show, watch it, and then erase it, I have found it far easier to use a cable box with a built in hard drive recorder than trying to sync a VCR with a cable box.
If you want to archive something on a DVD you can then use the DVD recorder to do that.
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