If it’s old-school that the millennials are after, you should include one of the longest-running and most popular options still in use today...repurpose a Windows 7 PC as a home theater PC. Use Windows Media Center as your DVR by adding a cheap OTA tuner card like the Hauppage WinTV HVR 2250, which you can pick up…

Pffffft . . . That’s nothin’! My family had a model that did not even have its own clock or timer. A separate clock and timer was used to turn the machine on to record at the appropriate time.

We should start the discussion again:

Pfft... you kids. This is how you record OTA TV: a 1975 Betamax. I was there, and yes I had one.