Customer Ratings & Reviews

This product was purchased at short notice and it was great

I am "cutting the cable cord". I bought this Insignia converter to run Over The Air (OTA) TV signals from my new digital antenna (the "Cord Cutter") through my TiVO Series 2 (which is so old it only accepts analog signals -- thus the need for the digital-to-analog converter box) and then to my flat screen digital TV. The TV works fine with the antenna already, but I miss being able to pause and record with my TiVO Series 2. I paid for the TiVO lifetime subscription in 2005, so I'd like to keep using it until this TiVO dies. At that point I'll upgrade to a newer system and, if I go with TiVO I'll pay the new monthly or lifetime fee. But not yet with this new Insignia converter box which is working well right out of the box. When it arrived, I first I plugged the coaxial cable coming from the digital antenna into the RF coaxial outlet on the converter box and performed the set up and channel scan per instructions that came with the converter with the TV on channel 3. It was very easy and fast. The converter box has a nice feature where it displays the antenna's current signal strength on a bar chart, so you can move the antenna around the room and see instantly how signal strength is affected. It's not a sexy interface, but very useful. To start the antenna-to-TiVO-to-TV set up, I unscrewed the coaxial cable coming from the back of the Comcast cable box that was previously carrying the cable signal into the TiVO Series 2 (meaning NOT the coax carrying the cable signal from the wall jack to the Comcast box which is now useless since I'm not using Comcast services for this set up). I attached that cable to the back of the Insignia converter box. In other words, I basically swapped the Comcast cable box for the Insignia converter. The TV signal came through the TiVO to my TV just fine. I can use the TiVO remote to change channels, check the TiVO Guide, pause, and record with the TiVO just like before. My TiVO Series 2 only had one tuner, so I can't watch 2 channels at once, but I never could before either. The only challenge has been to get the TiVO Series 2 "automatic channel changing to record" function to work properly with the Insignia converter box when I'm not around. This requires the IR cables from the back of the TiVO to sit in front of the IR bulb in the Insignia converter box that same way they did for the older version of the Comcast box. I haven't gotten that to work yet with the Insignia, and this will impair the TiVO Series 2's ability to change channels automatically to record programs when I'm not here to change the channel for it. But it's not clear yet if the problem is with TiVO compatibility, Insignia's, or both. I have a few more troubleshooting steps to go, so it may work in time. Given the amount of $ I'll be saving by running just off the antenna, I don't mind fiddling with this to make it work. Other than the automatic channel changing through TiVO, I have only one complaint about the Insignia -- it has something small rattling around inside. Not sure what it is or if it matters, but it's disconcerting. I can only here it when I pick the box up and move it around the room.

plugged it into TV ran the scan and it works very well since

Good product it works well most of the time hopefully I'll get better

If you are still using a converter box, this one should work for you.

Very easy to set up. We get the channels we want. We are quite pleased. When we set a TV in the garage we are converting to a game room, we will buy another converter box like this one.

If you dont want to pay for cable then this does the job. However an antenna that is not included is required to pickup a signal for this box to work. I picked up 48 channels and im quite pleased.

Although I had to run the setup twice, (because one of the channels didn't program), it was easy to get working. The only compliant is that as you change the channel, it lags a few seconds and the channel caption and show title lags about 10secs.

easy to set up and use. it's of decent size and fit anywhere. but the best part is it actually works!!!! unlike others

does what it's supposed to do for the older TV"s, thank you

This product does the function that I expected quite well.

Easy to install, set up and operate. Needs analog input to TV.

Fantastic.Out of sight it is just what I needed.God bless.

This box, along with buying a Clear TV antenna for $15, has freed us from our $35/month satellite bill! We were able to get 12 channels, which is 8 more than I thought we could get! The box and remote are very easy to use. I'm very happy!

needed a converter for my analog TV. This converter fit my needs

A great way to forego a cable or satellite TV bill!

Great for an extra TV that you do not want to connect to cable.

I have a RCA box and this one from Insignia is or even better than the RCA

Awesome alternative for cable box to get free channel.

Great product for getting channels after cutting the cable wire.