Still have an old big screen, tube style, Toshiba. Works great on this TV. Allows me to watch over air signals on analogue TV. Easy to install.

Update: ViewTV Box died completely on May 9, 2021, after only 7 months use. It was on and stuck on a channel....would not respond to the remote or pressing the front channel keys on the box. Unplugged unit to let it reset for a couple minutes, plugged it back in & it never turned on again. Contacted the manufacturer, ViewTV, and they said the product has a 1 year warranty BUT they don't deal with Canadians either selling product or fulfilling warranty claims. They also said, and I am quoting EXACTLY what their customer service rep told me, that they expect the seller of the product to fulfill any warranty claims and that for every unit the seller buys to resell, ViewTV gives them a second unit to use to fulfill warranty claims. So, I contacted the seller on Amazon whom I purchased the product from, Botley Store, and received a reply from Burt within a day. He said they would look into warranty prodedure with their supplier & get back to me. 2 weeks go by, & they never did. I sent them 2 more emails, stating that I was DEMANDING the product be replaced OR ELSE I was approaching Amazon & having them deal with Botley Store for not fulfilling their contractual obligations with ViewTV, & in addition I found YouTube reviews for this product & I will be warning everyone:DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT & STAY AWAY FROM BOTLEY STORE!!!This company is sleazy, & all they care about is ripping people off! Look at their store rating - why do you think it's only 78% positive?!Also, DO NOT BUY ANYTHING MADE BY ViewTV! Their products are Chinese made GARBAGE, poor quality, unreliable & don't last very long. Also, the company is unreputable - any reputable company handles warranty claims for manufacturers defects THEMSELVES! The fact they passed the buck onto the seller, who was so greedy & money hungry to NOT fulfill their contractual obligations to ViewTV proves this company is BAD NEWS! AVOID THIS COMPANY & ANYTHING THEY MAKE!!!!!!Original review:Bought this to use with a AmazonBasics tv antenna on a 2008 Toshiba LCD tv so I could PVR programs. While this is a good tv tuner, surprisingly it's not as good as the digital tuner built into my 2008 Toshiba! Unbelievable that a 12 yr old tv has a better tuner than this brand new one! I had to use 2 preamplifiers with this tuner just to get the same channels that I got with 1 amplifier on the Toshiba's built in tuner.In addition, the remote is VERY finicky and a pain to use. Many times, you have to point the remote "just right" at the box in order for it to get the infrared signal from the remote and work. And almost constantly, I am having to move & get closer to the box just for the remote to even work!! Also, when it DOES start working, the remote will jump over channels and over react when you press the button you want to work. I will also point out that before moving to get the remote to work, I am usually seated a reasonable distance away from the box that one would expect a remote to still work. So there's ZERO excuse for the remote not to work properly, let alone be as finicky as it is!I contacted the manufacturer, who reassured me that they knew of the issues I pointed out & would send a new improved remote when it becomes available. However, I was also unimpressed that they suggested I should use my smartphone & a app from their website to replace their junky remote control! As much as this box does the job and has more outputs than other tv tuner boxes available here on Amazon, until the manufacturer improves the quality of the remote & the tuner, I cannot recommend this product.

sa fonctionne bien

Do not like

I received the ViewTV AT-263 ATSC Digital TV Converter Box April 15th and on the morning of the July 26th it died and won't power on again. Seller says they can't replace it. Better to choose a different product.

It wasn't comparable with my TV.

Rating 0 stars not worth the money very cheap design as far as PVR goes does not have a hard drive very very cheap not worth the money very disappointing

waste of money , havent been able to load up any channels to watch tv .

ViewTV AT-300 - 5 starsAs you can see from the reviews posted here, this is the page where the AT-300 was sold. But, at the moment, "currently unavailable". Information on the page changed over time, but still carried the terms, "AT-300" and (New Model). In late 2017, I received an AT-300 thru this page. But in early 2019, I ordered thru the link in My Purchases to this page, and received an AT-263 which I had to return. There was no error on my part, I checked the info on the page before placing my order.When this item arrived back in November of 2017, I tested the device with an analog TV that had composite video only, and was satisfied with the operation and performance. The box that I received - Model: ATSC / SW version: Oct. 28, 2016, 14:00:41 / HW version: 7802-ATSC-26.In February of 2018, I pulled the box from storage, and learned that when using an HDMI cable, the audio was silent. The settings in the box (and the TV) were not at fault, and I checked the HDMI for audio in PCM and RAW modes, but no sound. Changing the cable did not help. Still, I'm happy with audio & video thru the red/white/yellow composite wiring, and the box works great. But should COMPOSITE fail, I would not have the option of HDMI.The remote for this device has large dimensions, great buttons, and works fine. The only problem is, the remote must be pointed directly at the box. There are many buttons on the remote, and some of them serve dual purposes. For that reason, there may be several features, hiding among the buttons. The manual does not help with this. Included in the package, is a pair of AAA batteries, a rather stiff HDMI cable, (and unlike previous models) an A/C power supply that can be replaced. The AT-300 does not need or have vents on top, and is nearly twice the size of the smaller AT-263. The AT-300 case has a very nice appearance and a large green display. The software appears to be the same in both models.There are a number of lesser and greater bugs.Bug 1 - when playing files with the media player, every time a file is closed, the menu kicks the selection bar, back to the beginning of the list. To find a file and resume play, an annoying search must be conducted.Bug 2 - when the media player is in-use and the ASPECT button is pressed, "Invalid" is displayed on screen. The aspect feature does work, but only during a live broadcast. Together with Bug #1, this makes performance during playback, much less than expected.Bug 3 - when playing a recorded file, the info box that displays is too small. Add to that, a fuzzy shade of light gray, and little contrast shows, making the text hard to read. The date & time of a file in the pvrlist, helps with finding that file, and resuming play (as in Bug #1).Bug 4 - when viewing a live broadcast, the info box that displays, sits too low on the screen, and the extreme lower portion of the message box isn't visible.Bug 5 - bug 5 is scratched, cancelled, trash-canned. A "direct access to the book list" was found thru on-screen instructions. Just press EPG, then INFO, and the scheduled recordings (the book list) will appear.Bug 6 - the clock insists on displaying a time that is two hours later than my time zone.Bug 7 - occasionally, the EPG will display program start-times that are minutes earlier than top-of-the-hour, along with stop-times that are also minutes early. The clock is set to Auto. Is this faulty broadcast information, or does the clock lose sync with the broadcaster ?Bug 8 - the file sizes written to the flash drive are double what I expected.Bug 9 - the manual needs more detail concerning operation of the remote & box. There are buttons on the remote having a dual-purpose, but the functions are not listed in the manual. There is a PAUSE button and a HOLD button. The Hold is Full-Screen, not Pause, and that's okay. But the dual-purpose buttons have no label, and a hidden secondary function works only when a specific screen is displayed. The manual could help.The most unusual bug, and I still find this hard to believe, is that after 3 days of power-on, the menu is displaying bits of color. A green hi-lite bar appeared in the list of movies that lie outside of the PVR folder. The gray bar still made the selections, but the brite green bar marked the previous file, and that helped. In the EPG, a small orange dot appeared from nowhere, and marked each show (or book event) as I entered them into the Book List (schedule). A welcome feature, because I could now see what was programmed in the EPG, without going to the Book List. Perhaps there will be additional color embellishments that awaken soon. :)Here is an unknown feature that I discovered with the remote. Description: Using the on-screen keyboard, you can rename .mts files in the "pvrlist". Just press the PVRLIST button on the remote, then press the TIMER button, and the on-screen keyboard will appear. This is a lot like the remote command in Bug #5.Hit the PAUSE button on the remote during a live broadcast, and a blue/red indicator bar will appear at the bottom of the screen. Whatever you see from that point on, will now be recorded until STOP is pressed. Hit the PLAY button to see the recorded live video again, during the current broadcast. I believe this is the Timeshift feature. Whether the recorded file will remain afterwards, I don't know.I have the AT-300 connected to a digital TV. My main interest lies in recording, and using the box as a media player. During a book event (when the PVR is writing a file), I like to watch other channels. With no existing analog TV, the digital-to-analog conversion on Ch3/4 serves no purpose. So I have the loop-through function enabled, rather than Channel 3 or 4. LOOP THROUGH allows the aerial signal to be routed thru a second co-ax, and fed to the antenna connection on the back of the digital TV. Antenna-Composite-HDMI-(and others) can be selected from the TV input menu. In my case, COMPOSITE is the signal processed thru the AT-300 tuner, and the channel currently recording. By selecting ANTENNA from the TV input menu (and leaving COMPOSITE) all of the aerial TV channels can be viewed, including the one that is recording. That is the function of LOOP THROUGH. You can switch to the TV tuner & Antenna, while the AT-300 tuner is in-use. Or monitor your recorded channel with a second HDTV, if you wish.The AT-300 can write to a 64GB/USB 2.0 flash drive without any difficulty. I also tested a 32GB/USB 3.1 flash drive. You may find that flash drives under 64GB are best for recording, and larger flash drives are best for playing files (and storage). During a recording, a press of the info button will display the available write time (recording time). The available write time for my 64GB flash drive was 47 hours. 90 minutes of writing to this flash drive produced a 2.0 GB .mts video file at 704 x 480p, with a frame rate of 29.976 Hz. Note, I use an extension cable to prevent damage to the USB port when a large flash drive is used. I also switch to Windows 7 or later, when formatting a flash drive greater than 32GB.Examples of file sizes written by the PVR: 2 1/2 hrs (3.3 gb), 2 1/2 hrs (3.5 gb), 60 min (1.2 - 1.5 gb), and 30 min (625 - 725 mb). The last 4 digits of the .mts file name is the start-time stated in 24 hour format, preceded by the date. The time set by the AT-300 clock, the broadcast time shown in the EPG, and the time listed in TV schedules on the internet can cause scheduling errors. The problem is worse, when there are a dozen clocks in a home, and there is no time to adjust them all to Daylight Savings Time. The AT-300 will program directly from the EPG, and make the scheduling process fast and easy.Any book event (the channel-to-record, plus start/end time) can be set quickly and directly from the on-screen broadcast information displayed in the EPG. Examine display choices in "Sort". Press the EPG button on the remote and go directly to scheduling, or navigate thru MENU. Programming can also be done from the TIMER button on the remote. Just enter 01 to add a book event. All start/stop times can be edited.When the PVR begins a recording, a numerical display with a flashing yellow dot will appear in the upper left-hand corner of the screen. If you do not see this, the recording process has failed. Try starting with the box OFF. If nothing again, the book list may need to be emptied and refilled, good luck... If the box is ON, the channel in-use is displayed. If the box is OFF, the clock is displayed. The AT-300 displays channels in this manner: 3-3 is 0303, 10-2 is 1002, 15-1 is 1501, etc. (channels are no longer displayed as C001, C002, C003 as with the AT-263). If a book event is scheduled, and the box is OFF & displaying the time, the device will power-on, display the channel, start recording, and power-off when done !The AT-300 works great, and only lacks refinement. Except for playing files in the pvrlist, operation thru the menu is never difficult. Also, the box is not slow or sluggish, and any channel can be locked out for dubious content. The picture quality seems to be quite good, but my viewing distance is less than 10 feet, and my TV isn't the size of a billboard. 480p looked very sharp to me, and I just can't see the need for anything over 720p.Watching recorded TV is much more enjoyable than watching 'live' TV. Never miss a minute, and come back to see a recorded show, right where you left off. Just look for "Resume or Cancel" at the top of the screen. The AT-300 plays many formats & recent codecs. There is a nice ViewTV logo when the device boots. A second AT-300 will allow recording on different channels at the same time, and you will acquire a spare A/C adapter and another remote ... think about it.For the features, the price, and the satisfaction, the ViewTV AT-300 gets a rating of 5.A new refined/enhanced/polished product at double the price would be quite acceptable !.

I wrote this same review for a Channel Master digital converter. This review includes a "continuing saga" which now includes the ViewTV AT-300 unit. Read on.....Channel Master:For about five minutes it was working OK. It booted up with no problems. But..... When I was deleting channels I did not want it: froze on one channel, the screen went blank, the audio was being broadcast of that channel and NOTHING worked to unfreeze the box or even shut off the box. So, I unplugged everything. When I plugged everything back together it automatically re-booted. And..... It continued being stuck on the same channel with no picture at all but the audio could be heard. Oh well. Sent it back.(I have two "real" Channel Master DVRs. They are $400.00 units. They are first and second generation units. I have had them for years. On occasion they freeze up and I have to unplug and re-boot them. Problem solved. Channel Master doesn't even list the CM-7003 on their website.)***UPDATE***I returned the Channel Master unit.ViewTV AT-300:I had previously purchased an Ematic digital converter box, Model: AT103B. It worked OK. It didn't freeze up and become useless. What I didn't care for on the Ematic unit was the poorly designed remote. The buttons for controlling the playback were almost an afterthought. They are: located at the bottom of the remote, each button is the same size, the buttons are tiny and they are not logically laid out. But the unit did work and I didn't know what I had: A unit that works and doesn't freeze up. So I returned it too.Soooo.... Next I tried a ViewTV AT-300 digital converter. And.... It froze up at the exact same channel as the Channel Master (Trust me: NO pun intended.) It also became useless and would not un-freeze. Many people have written in and described the EXACT same problem. So it is either a design flaw or evidence of problems in the manufacturing process. So now that one will be returned too.I tried calling the ViewTV 1-800 number and all I got was an answering machine. (A friendly voice said to leave a message and phone number. I didn't bother. Another Amazon customer said he left a message and never got a returned call.) I tried the internet and the website for ViewTV is not operational. Both dead ends.Now: Having been the (proud?) owner of three different units from three manufacturers, I can report that ALL three use the exact same chip/programming. Their screen images, set-up procedures, screen layouts are absolutely identical. So it probably doesn't matter what brand you buy. You will get the same hardware/software package.Why did the Ematic NOT freeze up? I have no idea.So I guess you get what you pay for. Any of these units for $30-$45 dollars is a bargain and great technology.....if they work.

There are some less expensive models that use the identical hardware — the AT-163 is $ 30, compared to this one at $ 38.00. The fundamental difference is that the AT-300 includes built-in recording capabilities. And there are other benefits over just getting local channels on your TV.* It’s got a more sensitive tuner. It found 3 channels that neither of my TV’s did.* It makes a list of channels that can be sorted in different ways. You can make a list of favorites too.* It provides a program directory for all the channels, and not just what’s currently on, but for up to a week.* You get a nice digital clock synchronized to the PBS time signal.* The AT-300 can be programmed to turn on and record the programs you select.* There’s an antenna loop-through connector so you can still connect the antenna to your TV or FM receiver without a splitter.* Batteries (for the remote) are included.Since it plugs into the A/V receiver, I can more easily switch from off-the-air to streaming. I no longer have to change TV inputs. Video and audio quality are very good. You can use the antenna out connector as a channel 3 RF modulator if you want to use this with an old TV that can’t receive HD. This was a good addition that really unifies my TV sources. It requires an initial setup, and worked flawlessly when that was completed (select language, daylight savings time on/off, scan for channels). It comes with a highly functional remote (the buttons feel cheap) and worked from at least 15 feet away. It’s software updatable via USB memory, and there’s an update I haven’t installed yet, but haven’t encountered any problems.The only drawback I’ve found is that it only works with USB devices (memory stick and disk drive) formatted FAT32, so file size will be limited to 2 GB. With NTFS support it would be a 5-star product.

The wonder is not that it does the job well, but that it does it at all. If you're only looking for a box to convert digital TV to watch on an analog set, it may be OK...provided you can tolerate the loop-through problem other folks have described (my solution was to buy a Channel Master amplified signal splitter), and provided you don't mind having to hold the remote control at just EXACTLY the right angle for the beam to reach the sensor on the box! These flaws should be enough to earn it no more than 3 stars in any case, but the real disappointment is the added feature that's used as delicious bait for these products: the personal video recorder (PVR) function.If you're going to include such a feature in a product, why not at least make it useful? Most people will be unable to ever record much more than 8 hours on a single flash drive. That's because this unit will only recognize drives that have been formatted with FAT32 partitions. Now, the manual CLAIMS you can use drives up to 1 Terabyte (1000 GB), but then it goes on to admit some drives won't work, yet offers no further guidance on which ones won't or why. Well, here's the story.The FAT32 file system can handle much larger drives than that, bit it does have a limit on the size of individual files: 4 GB is all the data the file system can keep track of in a single chunk. No problem if you're willing to record your material in individual files that are no bigger than 4 GB in size, and link them together in playback; lots of home digital VCRs do exactly that, and it appears this unit does as well. The real problem is, you CAN'T BUY either a USB flash drive or solid state disk (SSD) drive larger than 32 GB that comes already formatted with FAT32!This is a little trade secret I didn't realize until after buying this box. I'd used flash drives of all sizes for years without ever having a reason to check how they were formatted. I'd bought a Seagate 500 GB drive to accompany the AT-300 box, and Windows 7 recognized it just fine, but the AT-300 said no drive is attached! That's when I researched file systems and realized every drive larger than 32 GB comes formatted with exFAT, a slightly newer file system with practically no limit on file size. OK, I thought, let's reformat. Nope! Can't do that because the disk tools in Windows are limited to 32 GB partitions on any FAT drive. And because Windows' tool kit can't work with larger FAT partitions, no one sells drives larger than 32 GB already partitioned that way--even though that's not a limitation of FAT32 itself.You can have a larger FAT32 drive, as I said before, but you have to have a Linux computer or else a Mac or PC with special (read: costly and/or virus-risky) third party disk tools to do the job. I used to do that sort of thing years ago, but I'm not eager to pay my Official Nerd dues once again just to timeshift a little local television.The pro's of this box:-It works, sort of. With a modest outside antenna, it found all 25 program channels that are available from our six local stations.-It has a built-in electronic program guide that is actually useful, provided the station is actually transmitting full program info. But it works only on the channel you're tuned to right now, and is a bit clunky to get in and out of.-The video quality is not terrible. If you're using it as a tuner for an older set, it may yield a cleaner picture than you ever had with analog TV. Using the HDMI cable to drive a decent HDTV, however, the picture may be contrastier and the color less realistic than you're used to seeing from its internal tuner.-The PVR function does enable time shifting, sort of, which is why I bought it. My live-TV streaming service does not offer local channels, so my cloud DVR doesn't let me record the evening news or local programs, while the AT-300 does. It does the job cheaper than Amazon's wi-fi dependent box that requires a confounded smartphone app (and hence, a smartphone) just to set up! But on the other hand...The cons of this box:-The PVR can only record one program at a time. You wanna watch two shows that are on at the same time? You'll have to be in front of the set, or do without.-Recording time is seriously limited unless you're a professional nerd. See above.-The menus in general are a bit clunky, and not everything about Setup works the way the manual suggests. Example: Time setting was harder than it should have been. All would have been fine had it correctly identified the time zone, but it thought I lived one hour east of here.-The manual leaves out important information. It also is printed in such small type that even people much younger than I am complain about it. The screen shots of the menus are so tiny as to be USELESS and obscured, even with a magnifying glass.-The RF loop-through issues mentioned by others.-The precision required in aiming the remote.-Depending where you live, it may not tune all your available channels! Any station that's unfortunate enough to carry its digital signal on RF channel 6 or lower simply will NOT be tuned. Most digital stations (regardless of their original analog channel number that they still carry around like baggage) now actually transmit on high-band VHF or low UHF channels these days, meaning channel 7 or above. That's all this box is designed for! Any station that's stuck on low-band VHF won't ever show up on this box.This product is better than nothing, but it also ought to be a lot better thought out in terms of ergonomics, even if that makes the price a tad higher.

I bought this back in 2017 after we shockingly discovered our new Vizio "Home Theater" did not have a built-in tuner. This unit fit the bill very well. I chose this unit over the others because it has an LED display showing the channel number right on the front panel. Most of the other units did not have this feature. Also, the remote control is quite large and well laid out for ease of use.So far, it's been working great. The setup was very easy and intuitive and it has been working perfect ever since. I leave it on 24 hours per day. It hardly gets warm at all which means it is using practically no energy, about 7 watts maximum. The picture quality is excellent. Also, I live in what is called a "fringe" area about 65 miles from the TV stations. I use a roof mounted antenna and this pulls in the stations as well or better than our previous TV.I have only two complaints with this unit. First, the channel selection is very slow. It could take up to 5 seconds to change stations. This is not much of a problem for us because we usually only watch one channel anyway. The second problem is that the remote has a very narrow beam. You need to point it directly towards the unit or it won't take. Once you get used to that, it is no longer a problem.This unit does so much more, but we haven't used most of the extras. We only use it as a tuner and it excels at that. Overall, I would say this unit is very well built and does the job of bringing in distant TV station in HD very well. I would recommend it for anyone who requires a tuner for a big-screen TV.