They did have a VCR, and you can rent tapes from the trading post, but what I wanted to mention is that if you have a portable dvd player (we bought one for our son with autism for the long ride down) it is very easy to hook that up with the little audio/video ports in the front of the TV in the living room. The bedroom TV didn't have them. But that was nice.
You could also play those games that plug into the TV like sega and stuff. Charlie always needs something familiar on TV to fall asleep to, so that was nice to have.
Now the personal DVD players are so cheap it kills me that we paid over $200 for ours.