Damn, I wish I'd asked on this board awhile ago. Mine cost $8 per, and I lost one before I got it home! I'm not surprised that yours didn't look so good (since you were downconverting to the display device), but mine upconverts (not really) from the media reader to the display device, so there shouldn't be too much of a decrease (and NO increase) in quality. Besides, it's a VCR. I only use it when I have to offload stuff from the TiVo. :-)

I am the Doctor, and THIS... is my SPOON!