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Re: VCR Plus..Will we ever get it back?

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From: Sanders Kaufman
Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 22:52
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Jim wrote:
> Anybody know why this convenient service disappeared?

Yeah.  It was only good on older systems.  It cost a lot to 
implement.  Hardly anyone used it, and noone stepped up when the 
networks asked if anyone objected.

Newer systems have a more digital-centric, feature-rich form of 
the same thing.
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