Customer Ratings & Reviews

the converter box works just right and is easy to use, easy to scan. the recorder is a little clunky. setting it is like the way you used to have to set the old vcr's to record. I am still happy because I have the ability to record over the air programming, but I wish it were a tad easier.

Easy to set up and worked perfectly connected to projector and when we updated to surround system, worked great also. As a note may want to use hdmi for best picture.

It does a good job for what I got it for, recording off the air using a flash drive. It does however cause interference with my scanner.

I love the Aluratek digital video converter box! I like that it has recording capability also !!

No problems hooking up and works well. Haven’t figured out how to set favorites yet.

Updated older converter box model. Set up was very easy. Records easily to usb.

This tv box comes in handy. I can watch channels that my tv doesn’t show. Also I can record shows and watch them later. That’s a big plus for my wife and me.

The Aluratek digital video recorder does exactly what I was looking for. It records TV programs onto an external hard drive. The Aluratek DVR cost $50 and the external hard drive cost $79. This is a very inexpensive way to record future programs that I would otherwise miss.

I needed this to hook up an antenna and the tv did not have a coaxial plug. It was easy to install and connect. I would recommend this. It picked up 50 plus stations.

The Aluratek Digital TV Converter Box was a great deal. The fact that it came with a remote was the reason I bought it. It is very easy to use and I would definitely recommend it to others. In fact, I intend to buy my Mom a converter box as well

Easy to set up, intuitive to operate. Tuner manages signal well. Good value. Only wish it had dual or quad tuners.

With the Aluratek Digital TV Converter Box, you can watch and save TV channels without any extra fees. Simply plug in a regular USB drive or external hard drive to the USB port on the front panel, and keep your recordings as long as you desire.

Freezes up frequently. Has to reboot itself at least twice a week. Hard to enter programs to record. Must leave TV on to record. Instructions for watching while recording are not available. But still a good product.

Basic Set-Up and easy to Program. 2 Negative things about this Converter Box is: 1- The Time keeps changing back to Military Time. 2- The moving of the voice to the lips of the person speaking doesn't fully match, but that's what you get with Analog HookUps.

Works good. Instructions a little to vague. Easy purchase.

Easy to set up. Although we had to have a grandson come over an help program to our existing TV.

This Digital Converter Box has been a life saver! It's an interface between an antenna and a TV. I don't have Cable TV and my TV is not equipped to connect a coaxial cable to it--so I can't connect an antenna directly to the TV. Now, after connecting the Converter to my TV through an HDMI, I am able to connect an antenna to the Converter, receive an analog signal (since the Box converts the signal from digital to analog), and program and watch all my local channels within the antenna broadcasting range.

The box will get television channels. This is the fourth box that I've had that just suddenly stops working after 2 years. Seemingly the two boxes that I had purchased on the same day both stopped working within one week of each other. I have owned four of them and all of them have broken and just stopped turning on. Don't waste your money. Buy a different brand. It's not even worth buying the warranty

Setup was pretty easy. I could get acceptable quality from HDMI. I attached 1 TB external hard drive and was able to record about 20 hours of different programs. Less than 3 weeks after the purchase and less than a week before I could return it, USB port stopped working. The message keeps saying no external drive found. No matter how many times I tried to restart, or use other flash drives. Looks like USB port is out. What a waste of time and money. Bestbuy should take this item off the shelf. I would not recommend this product to a friend, unless I want to lose a friend.

This unit works very well otherwise. It converts and uses an obsolete format originally from Sony which is very inefficient and doesn't record for very long on a 32gb stick which is the largest size supported. I use it to record TV shows to watch over the weekend so I don't miss them. The reason they claimed won't work on cable is that internal software doesn't detect if channel is scrambled. It doesn't skip over them so fills channel log up with them until full so can't access the unscrambled ones that are usually located in the upper numbers where cable companies put them. Problem proably could be fixed with a software update. My antenna is not strong enough for it to pick up all the channels my TV does though. It does get the three major ones that I normally watch so I am happy about that. I would buy another one to get another show or two but it seems no longer available.