Well when I say software, I mean a program that will allow me to program in a schedule of shows to record and dump to the HD. I've read that there are alot of them out there but few that are good.
Haha and as for what happened to good old fashioned tv, the coax connector snapped off mine while it was sitting in the common room of my dorm suite, and no one knows anything about it....hmm so instead of dropping money to fix it and then get a vcr, I'm just going to connect it via s video and use a tuner card in my pc.