Analog-to-Digital Converter-U-003 Digital Converter Box/Set-Top Box/ATSC Tuner for 1080P Live with HDMI Cable, TV Tuner, DVR TV Recording&Playback, EPG, USB Media Player, Local Channel Free

This can either be a lot of fun or a confounding product--depending on your experience and savvy with overseas inexpensive tech. To the "average user", there will be a ton of frustrations since there is really no documentation and you have to guess your way through the menus. If you are not geeky, do not buy.That being said, this black box has a very powerful and selective tuner so I can not only pick up my locals flawlessly, I can pick up signals from Canada about 100 miles north. The EPG is the biggest frustration, retaining only one day of programming. There are rumors of software upgrades, but the company keeps a very low profile.Understandable because the PVR (supplied) records to an external USB--which can then be plugged into a Windows 10 machine to copy, edit or share. This box eliminates the DRM from over the air broadcasts! That is certainly a big selling point.One important tip--the box ships with a deceptive plastic skin covering the top vents. You MUST peel it off completely before use or the box will overheat. It would be very easy to skip this step.

ORIGINAL REVIEW: Had an old analog Sony TV that I couldn't throw away because it still had such a great picture. Wanted to get those digital broadcasts on its screen. This unit did the job! Remote works fine. Shipping was fast, too. You will still need an antenna to receive the digital broadcasts. Some antennas are better than others, so you might want to look into that as far as getting more channels or better reception.UPDATE: Less than one year later, this thing stopped working. And it's not like I used it every day, either....just once in a while, especially since I got a digital TV and I use that far more often than my old analog set. This unit is just a simple circuit board, and it still didn't even last one year of infrequent use. Doesn't anybody sell quality stuff anymore?

What a pleasant surprise.The only reasons I gave this 4 stars instead of 5 are:1) It came without instructions.2) The remote is fully functioned, but doesn't have the ability to learn to turn the TV monitor on and off, so I still need two remotes.The set of features for this tuner are quite amazing. I bought this for a friend who recently terminated her Direct TV subscription, and wants to watch the local over-the air TV stations. Even though the TV had 1080i Component inputs, the built-in tuner was so old it was the old analog type. Even without instructions, the connections are clearly labeled and I was able to install it with only a little experimentation.This unit is a better than expected solution. It found 62 local channels just using an indoor flat antenna, and produces a clear HD video image and clear sound. It's a little strange in how it identifies the stations for selection via the remote--channel 001 is the first one found (2-1 in my area), 002 is the second one found (2-2 in my area), and so on, but the list function displays their call letters and ID ("KTCA PBS" for 2-1). The program information and signal strength displays are useful and easy to understand.

Update 8/1/2022:It hasn't quit yet, but it is already getting flakier. I had several entries to be recorded on Saturday 8/6/2022, but for no apparent reason those have been jettisoned. I was adding two recording selections today, that typically get a golden ball next to it's entry in the EPG list if entered that way. The first of these were entered and displayed the ball. The second was entered, but no ball was displayed. I tried to enter it again, but was informed it was in conflict with another entry. I went to the screen that displays all pending recordings and found it listed there, but when I returned to the EPG for that channel it was still not marked. It has failed to record at least one program that it was set to record. It has also been given a couple of programs to record separately, but then simply put itself into record mode. I discovered this after it had been recording everything on the channel for 6+ hours in one large file. At this point I am just waiting for it to fail power-on, after only owning it for about two months. I've only been using it regularly for half of that time. None of the others that I've owned acted strange before dying out, they just stopped powering up. Unless a seller reads my review and offers a replacement, my recommendation would be to avoid this one.I originally thought that I would like this, but I was wrong. I've had several of this type of device because none last long, but recording shows is convenient. Most of them work the same way and have interchangeable remotes. This one is not like the others though, and it has some very annoying differences.With the other boxes, shows can be scheduled for recording and then you turn off the device and the display will show only a small red standby light. This one shows both a bright red light and the entire display is lit up with the time. Not good for a backup box in the bedroom.When using the EPG, simply selecting a program is not enough because the default is to "view" rather than "record", so you have to get to the bottom of the entry and change that or there won't be anything to watch later.In spite of any information to the contrary, you will be lucky to get more than 8 hours of future program info to select from. This is unchanged from the other boxes that I've tried.Don't mix up remotes because the one from your other box won't work with this one at all. The buttons on this remote are mostly different from the other boxes of this kind, so realize that you will need to find them again. The names have been changed as well as the positions, so you will need to discover that you press a button in a different place that is named unlike the one you previously used to do things. The onscreen menu may tell you to choose a button of a certain color. If it does, ignore the name that button was given.I do hope that this box lasts longer or does something that is overall better. It does have a "zoom", but that doesn't work great. On one TV it works very poorly, on another it may be a little better.