OTA High def programming is going to be limited to NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS and maybe the WB ocasionally. FOX is in EDTV right now, but is supposed to be moving to HDTV later this year. That is 5 or 6 HD sources OTA in most areas. Throw in an independant that may brodcast HD ocasionaly (actually they all are just ocasionally) and you would be lucky to get 7 sources OTA and those mainly in prime time only. Go to cable or the major satellite providers and you add 6 or so at a pretty tall price, but they are full time. Voom (I think you meant Voom instead of Zoom) will give you the most full time HD channels.
As far as the connection of a Voom receiver it has connections to connect to a VCR. Some VCRs that have sentisive copy guard circuits have been reported to not record on some Voom receivers, but I suspect these are older VCRs. Mine records with no problem, other than it is only poor SD.
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