Customer Ratings & Reviews

it was very easy for a 70 year old man to install. it also picked up all the channels. it records perfect. I can watch a show and pause because it starts recording. I will fast forward during comercials and catch up. I can set time recording easy. I am 110% pleased with performance.

This thing works great! Very easy to install. I have an old analog TV with a built in video tape machine which we use when the grand kids want to watch a Bambi movie. I connected the D to A converter, turned on the power and it scanned for channels. We get about 25 channels. This old TV was made in 2002. Amazing!

I love the ease of this digital recorder. I still have an old tv but now I can not only watch it, but I can record ( with a USB) it has an EPG so you know what’s on for a few hours in advance.

Does as advertised. Nice clear picture and easy to use.

Good for the price but the way of using it a bit old and the guide should improve it.

I had been looking for a extender for my tv for the longest. The lady at best buy told me I needed a converter box instead. I purchased the box and went home and connected it to my tv. I was able to catch over 30 channels depending on where and how the antenna was positioned. I caught the channels I wanted to watch and then some

I own 2 of these DVR's and they work as described. The operation instructions leave a lot to be desired. It took me a couple weeks to figure out all of the operation features because the instructions are very difficult to follow. Someone in the US need to re-write the instructions in a format we can follow. I am recommending this product only to people that are patient in figuring how something works.

Given the reception problems I have (low elevation of location, high surrounding bldgs, etc.) it does about as well as can be expected. Must adjust the location of the antenna for different stations, depending on the time of day and the wind direction. Still learning the remote, which lacks some features of the remote of the previous converter box. Don't like the compulsory numbering of channels, which makes the actual channel numbers of TV stations irrelevant. Digital recorder of no use to me.

This si advertised as a "dual receiver" digital TV converter box and DVR... that is a bold-faced LIE! I have had this unit for several months now, and wish I had returned it at the first sign of trouble. It claims that you can watch one channel while recording an other, which is not true. Unless you use the antenna signal pass-through to your compatible television, you cannot watch one thing and record another, be3cause this unit only has a single digital tuner, not a dual tuner as advertised. In addition to this shortcoming, the unit has proved to be very glitchy, frequently freezing and resetting. It often loses my favorite TV channel presets. The user interface is hardly intuitive, like the designers chose to assign functions to different buttons on the remote completely at random. I didn't expect a lot for the money, but I at least expected a product that would work as advertised, and I didn't even get that much!

Works well. Remote could be a little bigger though.

I gave it a 5 star rating as the benefit of the doubt. It was intact when I picked it up at Best Buy. But I couldn't get it to record consistantly with any flash drive. I then exchanged it for a Mediasonic brand similiar converter, which behaved the same way. I returned it, also, to Best Buy and was looking for yet another brand to try. But first, I visited a manufacturers online forum about the matter of the Mediasonic unit not working properly. I learned that flash drives are not recommended for these converter/recorders, that flash drives are unsuitable. It was said that an #external hard drive should be used instead. I had mixed feelings, it was good to know that there was a reason I was having little success with flash drives and a remedy by using an #external hard drive, but flash drives for recording would be so convenient. I bought a 1TB #external harddrive and another Mediasonic unit, and it has been doing ok, as it is supposed to. And I'm thinking there is a very good chance that the Aluratek unit will do just as well with an #external hard drive instead of a flash drive. I think these 2 diffrent brand of converter/recorders are just about the same inside, and the instruction manuals look almost exactly alike.,

Bought this because we cut cable and needed a way to run the sound through our home theater system. Install was a little tricky due to the instructions not being 100% clear but overall it wasn't too bad. Part of the issue could have been our receiver is several years old. We haven't tried the record a show function so I can't comment on it. The box is very small in size which makes it nice to be able to hid behind things.

So far It’s good a little hard to get around all the things it does but it works. I cut the cable because of cost and really nothing to see with aluratek tv and a antenna I get all my local tv that’s good enough. One last thing the remote is very cheap be careful.

Cat knocked over TV broke coaxial cable input off tv Body. Hooked this up to coax and HDMI to TV works great with a little lag time to get synced.

Bought it for the recording aspect.no problem as of now. Tried a thumb drive first then switched to a external hard drive which works better. Always came up about 12 minutes short on a one hour program with the thumb drive. Works good with my antenna. Just have to be patient while using the remote sometimes it doesn’t respond as fast as it should.maybe I’m doing something that is causing that

we did buy one in the store and found it to be just okay, but then found out it mainly defective. HOW? We returned it to try another but had to order one in. No problem at all and had it in 2 days. Once we figured out a few more things with it, it is working great. It will record what we ask and the bigger hard drive and now no issues. If you are looking to save $ this is a great product for recording local and watch it later. We would recommend it and all for about $100 with the bigger hd.

I bought this converter box when I lost my local channels on Directv. I've used this device to record over the air channels when I'm not at home. It works just like a VCR from the olden days, but the shows record digitally to a USB thumb drive.

Works well, but programs stick if the unit has been on constantly. Need to be turned off over night. Records well. Not sure if it can be downloaded to a computer since it has a PVR extension, Better than some other boxes.

Setup and instillation instructions are somewhat confusing but can be managed via trial and error. Unit works fine initially, I can not talk about longevity.

We bought this to watch and record tv shows when the old converter box became obsolete-it works well but the playback graphics are choppy sometimes and the audio is louder than regular tv, I have to turn the volume up to 19 in order to hear. The best part, I can get some of the channels the living room tv doesn't get which is a very good thing.