The TR-40 is a digital-to-analog converter box that will get your analog TV ready for the Digital Transition. With the TR-40, you will be able to continue watching digital TV broadcasts with your analog TV.
Technical Details
- Easy to connect
- Analog pass-through
- On-Screen program guide
- Eligible for $40 off with government coupon
2009-09-28
By James P. Mccormick (Sandy, Utah United States)
I purchased a couple of these with the $40 government coupons. I paid the amount over the $80 with a credit card. Happily I got this money back.It took several months to receive the product. The first unit lasted two days the other worked for six months.There is no customer service and no warranty available from Dish Networks for these units.I wonder how many hundreds of thousand, perhaps millions, of dollars Dish Network made from selling this junk to the US government through the government coupon program.
2009-08-12
By Harry Widoff (Forest Hills, New York)
The DTV is terrible, doesn't get as many channels and some different, after being turned off it turns itself on at times. I had it change channels on me as well as having to be disconnected or shut off to clear a fuzzing picture
ALL BOXES - NEEDED BETTER SOFTWARE AND FEATURES AS WELL AS A "TV" BUTTON TO END REMOTE CLUTTER
2009-05-28
By mi
I only gave this product a poor review because of the horrible customer service. I had to return my box due to problems and was told that I needed to return everything, including the remote, etc. When I got my replacement box, the only thing included was the box, not the remote, the instructions, or the coaxial cable. I had to make numerous calls to customer service and tech support, and they all said that I should have only returned the box without any accessories. I kept telling them that was not what I was told , and if I sent everything to them, there was no reason they couldn't sent evrything back to me. I now had a completely unusable box. After I requested to be transferred to a supervisor, then to corporate resolution dept., I was finally told that I could be sent the remote, the instructions, and a coaxial cable. I received the remote and the instructions; but, no cable. I called the corporate rep (who left me his number & extension) at least 7 times times (long distance) over a few week period, and he never returned my call. I then called tech support again, and the girl who "helped" me said that I shouldn't have sent my cable, and they had no way of replacing it. She then told me to go out and buy a new cable myself. She started to get very nasty with me and informed me that I wasn't really a customer, because I only bought a Converter Box from Dish Network and wasn't a Dish Network subscriber. I finally ended hanging up on her. I had been very pleasant on the phone, and she had no reason to get nasty. It is not in my nature to hang up on someone. I have never before in my life received such poor customer service from a company. I did end up getting a cable from our local Dish Network dealer, who sells the DTV Pal Plus. He said that they are also having a horrible time getting replacement boxes from Dish Network on the few that they have had to return for customers. They have finally had to give the customers new boxes off their shelf, because they hadn't gotten the replacements from Dish Network.
2009-03-16
By M. Carter (Raleigh, NC USA)
This was the first converter I purchased back last summer. It works ok, but the Zenith DTT-901 digital converter box I bought at Circuit City (are they still around?) is better in several ways.
1. The remote on the Zenith is far superior, and has a power button for the TV. With the DTVPal you have to use your tv's separate remote to turn the tv on and off which is annoying.
2. The Zenith gets better reception and picks up channels that the DTVPal doesn't pick up.
3. The Zenith has both coax and composite video/audio outlets, whereas the DTVPal only has coax.
In fairness, the DTVPal has a better channel guide than the Zenith, but that doesn't make up for it's shortcomings. The Zenith is much better. My only complaint about the Zenith is that it does not have an S-video port, but then again neither does the DTVPal. I've also heard that the ChannelMonster is good, and I think it has S-video. Though the Channel Monster remote has some of the same drawbacks as the DTVPal (i.e. no power button for the tv).
2009-03-04
By Azrim67 (USA)
It is the best in the market right now. It has very user friendly menus and On screen program guide. With Analog pass through. Event Timers and On screen program guide.It works really great and I am very much delighted with this little wonder gadget. See it for yourself at : http://www.dishnetwork.com/dtvpal/plus.shtml
No comments:
Post a Comment