Every day, a rich bounty of bizarre public access programming slips into the ether. Noticed by few and recorded by none, these genuine artifacts of American eccentricity are at risk of being lost forever. Someday, fortunes will trade hands over grainy videotaped fragments of Erotic Taxidermy Report, while a complete run of Fun With Volko! The White Nationalist Clown will be as treasured as the Dead Sea Scrolls. Future generations of historians, pop-culture analysts, and mental health professionals will curse our folly, wondering how we could possibly have stood by and done nothing to preserve these masterpieces.

They won’t be able to blame you, because you’ll have the RCA Dual Format DVD Recorder w/ DivX and HD Upconversion. Take your pick of formats, either DVD+R/+RW (tastes great!) or DVD-R/-RW (less filling!), and this recorder will preserve any teevee program you tell it to, no matter how unsettling or psychologically disturbed. It does plenty of other stuff, too, like upconverting your existing DVDs to near HD-quality and easy digital recording of audio and video from camcorders, mp3 players, and whatnot. And it’ll play Divx videos from DVD, so you can cram several (legally) downloaded feature films onto a single disc.

“But Woot,” you whine in that insufferable mewl of yours, “how can I take advantage of this unit’s HDMI output when I don’t have an HDMI cable? They’re expensive, Woot! Expensive!” Hey, settle down, you big baby. This recorder includes an HDMI cable – and those things don't come cheap. Will that shut up your whimpering? Here, here’s a tissue. Clean yourself up, for God’s sake.

Anyway, we’d go on all day about the RCA Dual Format DVD Recorder’s features, if we didn’t have any paint to watch dry. Suffice to say that with its easy-access front input jacks and user-friendly interface, there’s no simpler way to preserve the video ephemera of postmodern life.

We’ve all been there: your friends don’t believe you when you talk about that infomercial where Vicki, Empress of Flooring rides her magic linoleum past the Sphinx and the Taj Mahal before coming in for a landing at Vicki’s Carpet & Tile Megamart on Route 71. Thanks to the RCA Dual Format DVD Recorder w/ DivX and HD Upconversion, you’ll finally have proof.

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