My stepfather asked how he could record programs. He has an HDTV hooked up to antenna. Gets great picture quality. Currently he has a VCR. It looks like you could do that with a converter box, but picture quality would suffer. Looked at DVD recorders and HHD recorders with DVD. My head is spinning...My stepfather needs simple. He is starting to forget new information. Less cost is better. I am not sure those two will go together?