I have heard that my great Mitsubishi VCR, which is not digital will not be any use after February 17th. I do not have cable or dish, nor do I have a HD TV. My main question here is will I have to get a digital VCR to record shows off regular network?

You will have to get two converter boxes. One for the VCR and one for the TV. Forget about programming the recording multiple channels on the VCR.