Zenith DTT901 Digital TV Tuner Converter Box with Analog Pass-Through

Best clearest images, great product, easy setup .

Digital TV Tuner Is So Helpful, I love that I get a lot of channels with great reception and I don't pay any monthly fees and I don't need any Wi-Fi

This earned 4 rather than 5 stars because I had to try several different configurations and wound up having to buy an amplified antenna to get this to work. It has features which give detailed information channel by channel about the current show and also lists the current and upcoming show (regardless of how long each might be). It also gives choices about the aspect ratio, i.e. viewing something in letter box format or cropping a widescreen broadast to fill the old 4:5 TV screen or compressing the widescreen image to fit the old proportions.In my situation the device will pay for itself in a few months (since Comcast wanted $15 a month, forever, to rent a tuner). Also, with it the reception is quite good, better than basic cable with Comcast. With this and the amplified antenna there might be a moment or two of pixillation in an evening's viewing versus repeated freeze ups and pixillation (often many times in a single show on some stations) on Comcast.The device was originally purchased because the current VCR/DVD recorders do not have a tuner built in and my old recorder died. The tuner received 4 rather than 5 stars because it would not work with cable (as I thought it might, as if the cable were an antenna feed for an apartment building), required the additional purchase of an amplified antenna, and even then I could not get it to work with my VCR/DVD recorder. It is good enough, however, that I wound up keeping the basic cable, this digital tuner, and the amplied antenna, too. Overall I'm pretty happy with the mix even though I miss the ability to record shows and watch them later.The rest of this may be applicable just to Philadelphia, but may be similar in your area. This digital TV tuner converter box when coupled with an amplified indoor antenna brings in about 35 stations in Philadelphia (versus about 65 for basic Comcast). The stations lost include CSPAN, TBS, MeTV, several shopping channels, many religious stations, many Spanish-language stations. Other than MeTV (a station with shows from decades ago)I can't say I miss many of those stations. Two odd things which probably apply only to Philadelphia: with this regained the New Jersey public station but the Philadelphia PBS station appears some days and not others. Also, I am not getting the local ABC station. Switching between this device (with the amplified antenna) and basic cable is convenient enough. Add in Netflix for movies and shows from premium cable stations and you have what seems the most economical way to go.

I bought this waaay after the digital transition, so I payed full price for a used one, but to be honest, it is a high quality unit. Low noise and clear picture, good sound. Very pleased with my purchase. Compared to an APEX digital converter, the Zenith is far superior. I bought the APEX a couple of years ago from Best Buy for $50 and it was just terrible. The remote works when it wants to. You hit the foward channel button, it goes back a channel, if it does anything at all. You practically have to be within 2 feet of the box for the remote to work. Glitched constantly and high noise. Also, no buttons on the front of the unit itself except for the power button. No channel buttons, and even the power button is tempermental. Had me wondering why they even bothered to make such a crappy product. You can't even find digital converters at the store anymore. But the zenith is wonderful, remote works perfectly, guides are excellent, low noise, and just an all around wonderful device. Would recommend the zenith to anyone. APEX, not so much.

This item was returned. Out of the box the Zenith converter box appeared new -- as advertised, but when plugged in no light appeared. (This unit sports a red light when off -- blue light when on). Through trial and error I found that to get a red or blue light the unit had to be plugged in for a few minutes ... then unplugged and plugged back in. After the unit sat in the off position (red light) the only way to get it on was to unplug and plug back in. A bit too much plugging and unplugging for me. Especially for the almost $80.00 price tag. I found another new unit (that came right on when plugged in) for $30.00 less on another web site.

I wanted to late to set up only to find out the unit actually don’t work. I stuck with a paper weight and SMH.

The best DTV converter is an oldie. Made in January, 2009, this converter outperforms any currently made product of its type. Although it lacks the recently added features, such as an HDMI output jack or TV programming titles, it shines in the reliability, sensitivity and picture quality categories. What a pleasure to see a properly performing converter come out of its 7 year old box. Too bad LC/Samsung no longer manufactures converters. Maybe because this unit was manufactured when digital transmissions were mandated would account for its high quality, or it could simply be the quality control of the manufacturer; whatever the reason, this is a great product. It's only minor downside is the printing of the control functions on the remote control. The letters are too dull and too small to read easily in a semi-lit room. Otherwise, this is the best DTV converter I have used, and I've gone through too many of them.

We are downsizing and when we moved from a house to an apartment, we decided to cut Cable TV back to only internet. That dropped our bill from $160/month to $50/month. After a few weeks, we noticed that the only thing we really missed was local news. Since our TV was old, we need a converter box. There were a lot of other cheaper units, but they all seemed to have quality problems. This unit in combination with a "RCA ANT1450BR Multi-Directional Amplified Digital Antenna" delivers outstanding reception - more than 20 channels in our North Austin apartment.By the way -> when we dropped cable and switched to (free) digital broadcasting we discovered that our channel selection actually got BETTER in that the cable companies only allocate one channel to the local PBS station (KLRU) while in the digital broadcast realm, that same station broadcasts 4 channels of interesting content that is uniformly more interesting than the 80 channels of lowest-common-denominator drivel that that Cable company was broadcasting...