We still rent our TV for exactly that reason: easier to upgrade to something new.
When I went to college (1990), I bought one of those combined TV and video units second-hand: it was unusual to have a telly, never mind a video (hence all those people borrowing my key to watch videos). Being a combo unit, you couldn't watch one channel and tape another, and being second-hand it would occasionally start chewing up tapes (you could save them if you listened for the tell-tale sounds and moved quickly enough). But problems aside it was worth having.
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Date: 2008-08-02 10:27 am (UTC)When I went to college (1990), I bought one of those combined TV and video units second-hand: it was unusual to have a telly, never mind a video (hence all those people borrowing my key to watch videos). Being a combo unit, you couldn't watch one channel and tape another, and being second-hand it would occasionally start chewing up tapes (you could save them if you listened for the tell-tale sounds and moved quickly enough). But problems aside it was worth having.