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RCA DTA800 Digital to Analog TV Converter Box

The DTA800 receives over-the-air TV broadcasts and converts them to analog signals that your current TV can display. The DTA800 receives over-the-air TV broadcasts and converts them to analog signals that your current TV can display.

User Ratings and Reviews

1 Star Waste time/money Try another brand
Your next step after this purchase is contacting your local cable or satellite provider. Plan on watching tv th….th…th…th…that….just stutters. Quite frustrating. Stations that come in one day might not the next day or an hour later.

5 Stars Even a Caveman can do it
Bought one of these for an elderly friend. Couldn’t believe how easy it was to connect! Antenna in, antenna out, plug in power, answer a few onscreen questions and digital TV! Didn’t know there were some stations already broadcasting in digital. What a difference in picture quality!

This is connected to a roof antenna in the SF Bay Area. Great product!

5 Stars Wish I had bought this sooner
I too bought two of the RCA tuners at Walmart for $49.95 with my “coupons” so the units only cost me $9.95 each. Like the other writer, I wish I had gotten them sooner. There is a great TV guide listing function which tells you what’s on and even what’s coming on next. Set up was easy. The reception is great and I couldn’t be happier. They even pick up about 5 additional channels being broadcast in my area in digital that I didn’t even know about. Makes watching plain old local channels MUCH better.

1 Star Short Lived
It had some problems from the beginning. It would receive one station with all the program data and a good signal, but still could not assemble a picture. Sometimes there would be audio, sometimes not. I thought it was the station, so I waited. A month later, it could not produce a picture or audio from any station. It will be my cost to send it in, so I may just scrap it. I have the Zenith now, and it is made better, has very nice menus, and more features. Time will tell on this one too.

1 Star Poor Design and Engineering
I described the functionality of this product as less than basic, and that is why it is for $50 = $9.99 + $40 coupon.

My review is centered around 3 points.

1- Box doesn’t have a Recall feature. So if you are watching Channel X and you switch to Channel Y, but you want to go back to Channel X, you can’t. You have to input Channel X digits manually.

2- If you perform channel scan procedure and you realize that the box missed a Channel from the list, it’s hard to capture that channel. So for example if you want to catch Channel 13-1 and the scanning procedure didn’t capture it, you can’t capture it. The box wouldn’t let you enter Channel 13-1 manually so you go and change the antenna position to capture it. You can’t force the box to latch to Channel 13-1.

3- Each time you use the menu, the box logs you out of what you are watching and takes you to the menu page where you can’t see the TV program. So let us say if you want to change the font size, the system logs you out and takes you to the font page. If you choose a font with size large, and you realize it is not what you wanted, you cannot do it on the fly. You have to exit the TV program and go to the font page to reset it, then go back to the TV program.

I would not recommend this converter box at all. Pay $20 plus the coupon and get a better box. The ultimate way to discover the features above primarily is by looking at the remote control.

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Philco TB100HH9 Digital to Analog TV Converter Box

The Philco TB100HH9 Digital to Analog TV converter plays an important role in the completion of the digital TV transition. Designed to easily receive over-the-air ATSC standard-definition and high-definition terrestrial broadcasts, the DTA800 comes equipped with a remote control unit and the ability to provide on-screen program information sent by local TV broadcasters to easily identify details about TV programming. The DTA800 is designed solely to receive digital TV signals with an over-the-air antenna and converts those signals into analog for display through a TV set’s analog connections.

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Magnavox DTV Digital to Analog Converter

This box receives over-the-air digital TV broadcasts for viewing on a TV that does not have a built-in digital (ATSC) tuner. Additional features include a trilingual on-screen display, audio/video output, antenna input (F-type connector), remote control and a digital audio output for use with optional surround sound systems.

User Ratings and Reviews

3 Stars works pretty good
Like everyone else I got this box at wal-mart for $9.99 with the coupon. Even though I only live 10 miles from the city, my rabbit ears could not pick up a consistant signal. People moving around and airplanes knocked it out. I ended up using a rooftop yagi style antenna. I get all six locals at a 95 strength signal, and 4 channels about 50 miles away from cincinnati around 40 strength. All pictures and sound are fine and very clear. It says its a Magnovox but its made by Funai from China. They use the Sylvania and Insignia labels too. The remote is awful awful. Tiny buttons that respond poorly, and to change screen ratio you have to go into the menu every time. Made from cheap plastic and it is so light the cable pulls it off the tv. Counting all the sub-channels I get around 21 channels. The trouble is there isnt much on them. One channel has a weather channel but, the rest are infomercials and judge shows. Its a shame too because the locals could compeat with cable if they offered 21 quality channels. Instead, we are treated to a long list of boring programming witch simply bores the viewer. My elderly father thought he would be seeing animal shows and movie channels and maybe local sports. Instead I find him in his chair depressed while watching Judge seymore rule on a case with two fat women, over and over and over. The infomercials are just as bad. Weedwackers that play music, people buying houses for $100 and sellig them for 2.8 milliom, floor mops that change a womens life, all sort of drinks to claen your colon out, bald guys swinging thier new hair all over the screen, You get it. Only prime time seems worth watching. There are a few sub-channels running a sign saying nothing is on. Things are getting worse too. Cable seems to have law and order on every channel over and over and over and we pay for this crap. I read in a mag that out of 200 available channels we watch only 20 consistantly, but every month we write that check to futillity.

2 Stars Basic box with recording problems and a tiny-button remote
A very plain box that works ok except for lining into a VCR. Couldn’t record with it. Setup was very easy. The remote has very tiny buttons and could be difficult to read/locate for some folks.

Ended up buying two Radio Shack DTX9950 boxes after setting up one for my Mom. It was the easiest of the three that I’ve set up (I also tried the Insignia NS-DXA1, which I also reviewed on Amazon). Also had no reception or recording problems. And the remote is also the best of the three.

1 Star P.O.S.
local walmart sells this box for $50. this was my first box. didn’t know i’ll have to use 2 remotes to watch tv. very annoying. guided setup was easy. picture quality was ok, sometimes choppy. remote is horrible. tiny buttons, requires 2 AA batteries. controls only channels. everything else must be controlled with tv remote. this box is very slow. going from one channel to another could take 6+ seconds to scan for signal. took it back, lost coupon. got a different brand box, very responsive, perfect reception with same antenna. this magnavox gets 1 star for being slow, poor reception, and ridiculous remote.

4 Stars Magnavox TB100MG9 is my model number
Let’s face it, TV is not the most important thing in my life and I am not spending a thousand bucks to continue watching. I ordered the government coupon and went to K-Mart where I got lucky. This cheapo thingy was just in and after the government paid their $40 share I paid $9.99. It’s made in China–I really question the policy of the US Congress to mandate HDTV just so they can resell various parts of the broadband spectrum. Most of the stuff people have to buy to adapt to this change is not made in the USA!

It’s a boring little box with rubbery pads that cling to the top of my sloping TV/VHS player. Installing it was not that bad. I choose to plug it into the antenna jack rather than setting it up serially with my DVD player. The remote with its tiny buttons and awful arrangement is REALLY annoying. I puzzled through the plug-in procedure and ran the setup screen, got two channels right away with auto setup and then went through the range adding channels.

I was only able to get five and one half usable channels before I installed the converter. Now I seem to have more than doubled the number and they are all sharp and clear! No color issues and my antenna is roughly in the same position as before. So all questions of policy aside, this thing works well right out of the box. It’s not the fault of the converter that the Congress and the stuff on TV are rather dumb. It works. Why pay more?

1 Star By an RCA converter instead at Wal-mart
I bought a Magnavox and an RCA converter at Wal-mart each for $50 minus the Government coupons final cost $10 each .

The Magnavox is awful. The Remote control has tiny buttons and the unit has bad reception.

The menu is just as bad.

The RCA has a Remote control with large buttons and it will even control my TV’s volume and power. The Reception is very good and signal strength meter for every channel.

It has a channel list just like a Satellite receiver.

Don’t waste you money on the Magnavox (Funi) :-{

Buy the RCA instead!! :-}

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