Gregory's Server@JigmeDatse @textfiles I'm not sure if you could get a new VCR in 2007, but lots of people including me were still using them out of inertia if they skipped the TiVo boomlet. I was experimenting with a video capture/encoding card in a G5 Mac around 2006-2007, but still using the VCR for time-shifting TV. I think mid 2007 we got a cable-company DVR.
@JigmeDatse @textfiles Actually, my memory is a little faulty there - I think we retired the VCR in favor of a generic DVR sometime around 2005, but that was made obsolete by the cable companies integrating the tuner with a DVR. The generic DVR had this little "IR blaster" that it used to switch channels on the standalone cable tuner. Man, things were so different (checks notes) 17 years ago.