>>96138331>TV to VHS tapes.Well, yes, but that's terrible quality.
>shit internet to download a poorly compressed videoJust leave the PC downloading over night, easy. It's not poorly compressed. Back in the day dudes could compress 1.5 hour long movies into 700 MB to fit nicely in a CD; and the quality was great for a regular 17 inch monitor. Nowadays 60 inch screens show you every detail of the image but you didn't care back then when you were watching in a monitor.
>40GB drivesA new drive, a hundred dollars. A recordable CD was $1. Affordable and you don't need to plug in an entire drive.
>PC that you can hook up to your TV to play things back.Huh? No. I bought a TV card for my PC, and then I would watch cable TV (coaxial) right on my desktop, that was cool.
