A:Answer You probably will be able to do this. First, I bought my Aluratek ADTB01F as a digital TV converter box, which we use with an old but still surprisingly good analog TV that relies on an outside antenna for reception. That it also is able to record over-the-air broadcasts on a flash drive is a bonus. However, there are some limitations.
Unless I’m doing something wrong, I’ve not been able to watch a recorded program while recording another program. In addition, I haven’t been able to watch the program being recorded from the beginning while recording continues to the end of the broadcast. So, if I come home half way through a program I’m recording, I have to wait until the recording session has ended to watch it.
Setting up recordings is a little clunky. My biggest gripe is that there is no Mon-Fri option. Select “daily” for a regular program you want to record Monday through Friday and it will also record on Saturday and Sunday. In addition the video files it creates are not recognized by my Panasonic TV with a USB input or by my computer. If I want to watch a program on the flash drive the only option I have is to play it using the Aluratec Digital Converter.
Also, the box that my Aluratek came in proclaims that it is a dual-tuner unit, and that I can watch one program while recording another. I’ve not found any evidence of a second tuner and I think that this is probably a boxing error.
On the plus side, the picture is crisp when watched live or from the flash drive and the tuner does a reasonable job of pulling in weaker stations.
