Zinwell ZAT-970A Digital to Analog TV Converter Box

The product, while different from the Magnivox version I had purchased from Wal-Mart, works fine and was as easy to install.

I searched for the the full product manual online before buying this item in order to insure that it would work for me. I wanted to use it as a DTV converter for cable. After installing it and doing a channel "search" several times without it finding any channels I reread the user manual to find that it explicitly does not work with cable. This is bizzare given that my 20 year old TV sees 24 channels on the cable line, but the Zinwell box won't see one of them, analog or digital.

THIS UNIT ONLY WORKS WITH "OVER THE AIR" SIGNAL.

ALSO THE AMAZON RETURN POLICY ON THIS UNIT IS NO RETURN.

This equipment works well but requires a digital antenna. It will not work with tv rabbit ears. Once we purchased the antenna, all was well.

Easy to set up,simple instructions and ability to pick up different stations as weather changes or time of day/night changes.. We have rooftop antenna with rotor and the unit is easy to re-program for southern or northern direction and most of the time you do not even have to re-program..Also you can fine tune antenna for reception without re-programing. Only complaint is with Amazon themselves, as once again the packaging was inadequate as the converter was in a box with a "blister" type bubble wrap sitting on top of the unit with nothing under it or on the ends...luckily it arrived undamaged. In the past two years we have purchased about a dozen items from Amazon and half of the items were damaged in transit mainly due to poor packaging but also it seems UPS throws some of them out of their jets to avoid the expense of landing...FedEx does a better job any day...

Weak product, needs to have a manual rabbit ear antenae in order to pick-up any signals and even then you are limited to the actual channels (FOX/NBC) DON'T BUY THIS piece of Sh--. BUYER BEWARE...