VCR

Do you still have a tube TV?

For some reason, I find a post about a VCR in the technology forum to be an oxymoron. You need to check the output sources on the cable box to see what formats it supports. Then see if your VCR supports any of those formats. If it does, you could record the show the cable box is tuned to. But it sure is going to be much better to get a DVR and drop last century's technology.

If you are required to use their cable box to see anything, then your VCR is useless unless the cable box has analog outputs and you plan on recording what you watch.

Bcsdguy: You are running on borrowed time with your analog system. The FCC cleared the cable companies to shut down their analog systems and go full digital if they want. TWC quietly killed what analog service they had left on my system about a year ago.

i assume you mean to record?

My vcr works fine on our cable service and I don't even have one of their service boxes. I get up to 72 channels which is fine with me.
Did you try to use your vcr on the cable or are you taking their word for it?

Not easily, get a DVR from the cable company...