my parents use their vcr a TON because they want to watch like every show in the world. they actually have 3 vcr's in the house, and sometimes they're taping something on all 3, and watching a fourth program on the one tv that you can record from one channel but be watcing a different channel.
here at jay's, we have a vcr... but that's mainly because we have a lot of movies on vhs, and less for actually recording. i would love to get one of those vcr's that record to dvd, because when i was 11/12/13, i used to watch tv all the time and tape everything i thought was cool (which was a lot of stuff), so i have like 20 tapes full of random stuff... and when i watch it, it's like opening a time-capsule from the late '90s because there are commercials and news segments and all kinds of stuff on there. i would so hate to lose these things.