zylorian

"Purchased this product because it is free with coupon, and still have another coupon in case it dies. Setup The channel autoscan takes ~3-5 mintues. It finds all the local stations + some that the analog could not get at all, although some digital stations are weaker than the analog equivalent. Quality Picture quality is great, audio quality has a little added noise compared to analog of same channels. The RF output died after only 2 weeks of usage. We did not abuse the unit at all: we used it for less than 10 hours/day and unplugged it during the night, which should not be unreasonable. We have now resorted to the composite out and who knows how long that will last! Thankfully the composite output quality is the same as the RF output quality. Plan to give updates if the composite dies and what happens when we complain to HDAcess. Remote The box has only three buttons! Power on, channel up and channel down. Thus you NEED the remote to do necessary tasks, like add channels. Bad news if it breaks! Features You cannot scroll through the EPG without changing the channel, which I find annoying. The EPG does allow you to scroll through 12 hours of future programming on your current channel. The box has a signal strength indicator, which can be turned on from the SIGNAL button on the remote, and turns off upon channel change or the SIGNAL button. It gives you a number from 0-100, and it needs about 25+ to display the channel. The Menu has the following items: Auto Channel Searching [allows option of full scan OR add channels, which is very nice in case you can't get reception of all channels at once] Channel List Editing [you can manually "delete" (i.e. hide) a channel so that you skip it when you surf] Change Password [for Parental Controls] Parental Controls [V-chip] Advanced Closed Caption [Style, Size, Font, Text Color, Text Opacity, Background Color, Background Opacity, Edge Effect, Edge Color] Language [English, Spanish, French] Auto Power Down Timer [Off, 1, 2, 3, 4 Hours] Time Zone Overall Does what we want it to do, but VERY disappointed that the RF output died within a week of purchasing. " more