Magnavox DTV Digital to Analog Converter

by Magnavox

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 6 x 9.7 x 1.7 inches ; 1.4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0045Y1IMQ
• Item model number: TB110MW9
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (118 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 20, 2010

Product Description

DTV Digital to Analog Converter

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

92 of 95 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Decent Converter Box, February 2, 2009

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Kyle J. Oboyle "bgkob" (Milwaukee, WI) - See all my reviews
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I thought this converter box was fine. It worked out of the box great. I think a lot of converter boxes, this one included, are getting bad reviews because a lot of people are not installing them correctly. You still have to have your rabbit ears plugged into your converter box for it to work correctly. Also, make sure you are on channel 3 if using the RF input options or if using the A/V Jacks tune your TV to the AUX. The positives of having this and any other converter box is that you are going to get more channels. In my area my mom now has about 5 more channels because she is using this. Most of the additions are from the local PBS adding a weather, traffic, classical, and jazz channels. But a few others were added as well. This converter box makes every channel come in perfect, when my mom used just her rabbit ears she always had to get up and tune her antenna, not anymore!

Two things I don't like about this box are:
1) No cable TV like guide available to see what is on. I know some other converter boxes have this option.

2) The remote is smaller and this gets a little annoying. I tried to get her RCA universal remote to work with it using multiple methods, codes, and an online search, with no luck.

Other than those hang ups it works great and gets the job done.

48 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Decent converter box, just don't pay a lot for it, July 23, 2009

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J. Wieland (Staten Island, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This is a good converter box, setup is a breeze and the picture and sound quality is good for something that is basically free with the coupon or $10 and under if you prowl the internet long and hard enough.
Like another reviewer stated, many people don't set these up right. First of all, rabbit ear antennas will not work unless it has a UHF loop. Most, if not all current DTV stations are on the UHF band. You need a proper antenna for these devices to work properly, a fact that is not readily mentioned. If you have an older UHF bowtie or set top antenna your set!
If you can, by all means use an outdoor antenna, the difference is incredible as compared to an indoor antenna.
Another misconception is that DTV is HDTV. IT IS NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The output of this and any other SDTV DTV box is standard definition.
This will not convert your current or older TV to HDTV, it's impossible.
And if you do have a modern flat panel HDTV the tuner is built in.
This device is only for existing televisions with analog tuners.
If you have an older version of an HD television with an analog only tuner, this will work but only at SDTV, you will need an HDTV converter box which puts out an HDTV signal.
DTV signals are much better than analog signals in terms of a much clearer picture and sound. But the signal is at much lower power than analog and requires an efficient antenna.

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Works well but don't pay more than $20 for it.., April 2, 2009

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Carl Rj Klitzke (Appleton, WI USA) - See all my reviews
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This box works ok, the channels come in about as clear as they can, and there is a composite video out on the back so you can get a decent signal to your tv. Unfortunately, the remote is terrible! The buttons are too small, and the cursor keys are laid out in a way that does not even make sense. In addition, the features that are on the remote on other boxes (aspect ratio, language) are buried deep in hard to understand menus. Other boxes, particularly the Channel Master also have a program guide listing, whereas this one will only show information on the show currently playing unless you feel like messing with the impossible-to-press-one arrow keys.

Don't get me wrong, this box works, and if you're not paying a whole lot it's worth it. But if you want the best, look elsewhere.