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About this product
Product Identifiers
BrandViewtv
MPNAT-163
UPC0689719482569, 0848441023727
eBay Product ID (ePID)27019363503
Product Key Features
TypeTv Converter Box
Dimensions
Width9.8 inches
Ratings and Reviews
Most relevant reviews
- Mar 07, 2016
Nice product
Had it about a week now. Works very nice ....but difficult to figure out lots of guess work involved. Symbols at bottom of the screen for navigation are difficult if at all possible to read. Recording is a great feature but .....there is a mode (don't know how I got there or how I got out) where you have small screen in corner, video plays 5 minutes or so, freezes up. Then you mash buttons including power button till you eventually get out. Somehow eventually got out of that mode and now it's playing and recording normally. TV guide, depending on the channel goes foreword 12 hours to 2 days. Could be I just haven't figured out how to advance it further yet! Still all in all for 33 bucks I'm pleased with it. Got a great picture 45 channels, 18 of which are useful, Roku with Sling TV and Netflix, and had Comcast cut off today! I recommend it!Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- Jul 19, 2016
Has USB input
I purchased the AT-163 so I could play movies with the USB input. It works good for that. Using it for a converter it works good also. However, using it as a converter, it has annoying characteristics. First you can't delete channels you don't want i.e. shopping channels. When changing channels the channel display stays on a full 10 seconds. It shows in the middle of the screen with a signal strength meter and upcoming programs. You can't select a channel that hasn't been programmed into memory. (Just to see if anything is there). You can't see the remote control information unless you have a light when the room is dark. The operation manual has very little information. Basically how to hook it up. In features it shows "antenna power" since I use an amplified antenna I would like to know what voltage it puts out, so I may be able to eliminate the power block for it. So far I haven't had any problems with it, and it pulls in the channels very goodVerified purchase: YesCondition: New
- Nov 22, 2016
Cool Little Off Air DVR
This is a cool little DVR for broadcast TV in your area. The tuner is pretty sensitive and picked up stations from my own town and one about 50 miles away. This is driven mostly by the antenna but the one I'm using is the size of a book and indoors so it works pretty well. All the stuff I read about these said add a flash drive so that you have something to record to. -- I suspected a usb hard drive world work and it does. I hooked up a WD 1TB hard drive and it works just fine. I chose this drive because it was cheap. With 1TB of space I could have many many hours of recorded video stored. -- The command structure of this system takes a little getting used to as there are a ton of buttons on the remote and not all commands are straight forward. With a little work the on screen prompts will get you there but you might make some wrong turns on the journey. -- To record a show just scroll thru the guide Digital broadcast TV provides and select the show(s) you want recorded. Remember this has one tuner so you can only record 1 show at a time. You can pick the shows, times and any of your channels as long as they don't conflict. Set them up and when you come back they will be there waiting to be watched. -- Playback is easy. Press the USB button and scroll thru a list of dates of the programs. You can rename them but they are stored only by date. -- Video recorded plays back in a very clear format. In some cases it seemed better than the original broadcast but at the very least you don't lose anything in the translation. -- If you need a small DVR for off air broadcast in your area you won't go wrong with this unit. It works as advertised and the seller got it delivered to me in a very fast way.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- Sep 21, 2016
Over-the-air converter and recorder
Picks up stations better than my TV's tuner. Recording feature is nice (You provide USB stick or USB hard drive). Programming recordings is not as easy as a TIVO. Front display doesn't show channel info, but instead, shows a channel "index". If you're watching the fifth channel it found in the setup scan, it will show C005 instead of the actual channel number like 19-2 or whatever. On-screen, it does show the actual channel info like 19-2 for example. I couldn't find a way to manually add a channel to the list it makes when it scans channels, so if you have an antenna rotator, you will only get the channels that show up when the antenna is pointing wherever it was when you did the scan. Overall, for the price, quite a good value.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- Apr 19, 2019
Good tuner, not so good recorder.
It does ATSC OTA very well. I am happy with the overall features, except its ability to record. The channels I have recorded look fine when viewing live, but on playback there are noticable and annoying skips. There does not appear to be newer firmware. I have V3. One thing I have not tried, is recording a sub-channel (.2, .3, etc). The are typically lower resolution (480, 720). Not sure what that will prove, as the shows I want to record are on the primary (.1) channel. So, other than that, it's decent. Have not tried playing music of the USB drive, which BTW, is where shows are recorded to. The unit itself has no memory for recording. On last thing. It has several built in games. Amusing, but not very fun via a remote as the controller.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Sep 09, 2016
It is capable of doing what it is intended for... barely.
Considering how inexpensive this is they had to cut corners somewhere. The cables they provided were worthless, might as well not include them, less aggravating. The remote was decent enough. The box can bring in digital channels. The display will show some crazy number that is indecipherable and doesn't appear to have any relation to the channel. This I could have lived with. We got this to bring in one local channel that broadcast in digital only. It did that ok once the cable were swapped. Unfortunately when not using the box all the over the air channels are degraded. To get around this I could install a switch like we use to do back in the 80's but seriously why can't this box act as a simple passthru when not in use. So we did get it to watch that one channel and that worked but couldn't watch any of the other ones. Spend you $ on Netflix or pizza or throw it at a stranger... this would be more entertaining than this box.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- Aug 03, 2016
great price...records well
this is a great item....great price...but...hard to use....many buttons on remote control...too confusing.. also it shows everything in military time....also after it records you have to search for it on the menu.. it is all written in code numbers.... if they would make it more user friendly it would be a great item to use.. still worth the money.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- Aug 07, 2019
TV converter box.
The TV converter box media player works really good. It has a time display on it and you can also change channels manually if you have weak batteries in the remote it also has a TV Guide. and it comes with a booklet that has large enough letters to easily read and understand. The first converter box that I ordered was a different brand. And it was nowhere near as good as this one.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- Oct 15, 2017
WORKS GREAT ON OLD TVs!
After hooking up the box to my old 90's Fisher brand TV, this box worked great using channel 3 as a default. My remote did not come with the 2 needed AAA batteries for it. Glad I had already had some on hand. If you're planning on hooking up an old TV without HDMI (like I did), be sure to get an antenna to use with this box. The antenna goes into the RF IN and an additional cable (also not included) goes to the RF OUT which then goes to your TV's cable input. The RCA cables that come with the box are a bit short. I had an extra set of longer RCA cables that I used. Be sure to hook them up correctly according to how they go on your TV's Audio and Video RCA ports. I got a lot of channels on my TV with this box. And they're all very clear too. I also accessed the USB port with my own USB flash drive to watch my own downloaded movie files. The box reads MKV, AVI, MP4, MP3, JPG files and other formats. If you need one, get it! Works Great!Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- Aug 07, 2016
Does the job
Product connected to the right antenna works well. I connected it to an antenna with a 20 mile range. Problem is that the TV stations are between 20 and 24 miles distant. It found 4 channels, one of which was clear. But I attached it to an old powered antenna in my attic and it found 9 channels. Most of them are clear. Make certain this unit is connected to the correct antenna for best results.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
