Core Innovations OTA Digital TV Converter Box DVR Review - DTV Converter Box with PVR Recording

that brand is rebranded as AFFORDABOX in the Philippines

Great video and well explained.

Who sells these Core converter?How to access radio stations on converter?

Will record the sound if the tv is muted with the tv remote?

these are junk ....i have went thru 6 of them

Sir, I have a same set top box, but I left the control at home. How I can I operation it without control. Thanks

Hi, will it record longer than one hour, for an example a whole football game, thanks

Can I hook it up to my projector?

What a lovely video. Thank you for all the information.

I have the iview 3500STBii, and the features are almost identical to this one. The problem i hate is when i scan my local channels in, but one of my channels, CBS, never gets scanned in. Wishing i could ADD a channel, like in the days of having a VCR, in order to get CBS. This unit won't let me do that.

Has anyone else had the problem of not being able to exit the menu?? I did a channel rescan and now the menu will NOT ho away! I press the menu button as the manual says but it just toggles between the main menu and the Installation Guide. I’ve unplugged it, factory reset it, and nothing works!😡😡

The plastic film you suggest removing (which makes total sense because it covers the vents) has a sticker on it that says “DO NOT REMOVE QCPassed”! It’s like they WANT it to overheat and stop working!🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

I went though 2 convertir boxes, picture just rolls

These are absolute garbage. Expect to replace it within months. Bought 2 for 2 tv's and both failed; the first failed after 2 months, the second failed after 11. A friend purchased one and it failed in less than a year. Crap product. 100% shit.

When it works it is great. I got one at Walmart lasted about a week. Took it back and got another one, they took the broke one and gave me a new one. It lasted about a week. I recorded about 2 hrs with it and it died. Never got to watch what it recorded. The remote take some getting use to.

i noticed your set-up showed RADIO...waiting for more info on that...okay, you didn't share that info. i'd like to know about that

these are $19.99 at a store near me. you've had 8 months to gage it: Worth it?

Does the converter need to be on to record programming

What size usb will i need

Do any of the ota receivers support HDMI-CEC, the automatic switch thing? I have cable tv for my folks and would like to setup some in-house channels with uhf/catv rf modulators I have. The cable tv box supports the CEC and switches to it no problem, but it is not as easy to switch to the internal tuner of the TV. I'd have to find a simple universal remote with macro functions. I'm hoping one of the converter boxes supports CEC so I can use that instead, unless there are other solutions out there.

is that an isdbt box or not

That thing is a piece of crap. Don't lay it side ways. I live in L.A and has a hard time getting local channels compared to a previous one I bought. Dosnt even tell time on the face and can't delete channels you don't want

Can you connect it to universal remote and I know it comes with a remote, but I also want to connect a universal remote

Can I connect an Xbox one s

how do i rescan my box

If you hit the center navigation OK button while on a program, it will bring up a program listing of all the other channels that have been scanned in and those that do have program listings will show up. You can then scroll up and down to that channel and hit OK to tune into that channel. Much easer than hitting CH up down or entering the channel number manually, plus you can see what the other channels have on currently. That is if those channels are broadcasting the EPG guide data; not all stations do this unfortunately and it's not mandated, at least in the U.S. Most all full power major network stations do broadcast an EPG, the low power and religious tend to not do this. Your explanations of features on this digital set top box were pretty comprehensive, nice job.

Why won’t my remote work. I’ve put the batteries in. There is no infrared light

So my father bought this converter box 4 days ago, and the box went out for days later he didn’t have the receipt nor the box. I called customer service that the box came from the converter box came from and they told me that they cannot do anything about it so either keep your receipt in the box or just don’t buy.

Let’s just get to the point there’s no point in buying this I took the plastic off put the box up in four days the box went out. I couldn’t go get another box because I threw the receipt away and I don’t have the box either so I called the customer service number for the box and they told me since I don’t have the box since I don’t have a receipt and they check the status from the side to see that the box was out and they said they couldn’t do anything about it so now I don’t spend almost $50 on a box and I can’t even get my money back because even the company that the bucks come from the converter box come from cannot be replaced not even by them so either you keep your receipt and keep your box so you can return it back to the store. Keep it I mean if it’s like much too much just don’t throw it away. Keep the box in a receipt because if you don’t when you wanna return it, you’re not gonna get your money back even from the company come from Nor would they re place another box

I have zjbox and can’t set time to anything but military time and am unable to att a single channel, ever time you do auto channel search you lose all your set outs cording future shoes, o you have any pointers on these issues . Thanks

Hi. Can I use a 3.0 usb flash drive with this box?

It ook the plastic off and it sill crapped out in 2 weeks!

Will this work as a dvr or similar to how presumably dvd recorders when I finally make myself hook I 9ne or both of them up to hopefully if either one or prefferably both work then will first use to digitize and hopefully for many years if not decades to come— a vhs vcr tape of 21 to 23 year old home movie/diy vacation movie or really just a noncopyprotected type tape but also for inevitably to reduce wear if not also compliment a dvd recorder- with a more or less decades l9ng life type of dvr device

Great video! I have had two of these devices and love them...way better quality than a VCR! However there is one issue that has me perplexed: while watching programs that I recorded with my original unit from Ematic, if I stopped playback in the middle of the program and then resumed watching it later I had the option to either start at the beginning of the show or pick up where I had left off. Then all of a sudden one day it stopped giving me that option and would only start at the beginning. A year later I purchased a new unit (from Core Innovations) expecting to have this function restored, but it is nowhere to be found. I have never done any kind of update and am wondering if I may have accidentally changed some setting that disabled this feature. Any ideas? Thanks!!

R u doing a scan on the converter or from the actual tv?

The fact that a USB Hub works is kinda puzzling and funky, that being that you can only have up to two media devices at the same time (well for me that is) Of course USB 3.0 works well, and the only annoying thing with the PVR function is the fact that it splits .mts files not into separate .mts files, but .mts1 and .mts2 . Which is done bc the format of the USB drive is FAT 32 (Which can't hold past 4 GiBs) and it's aa pain to convert those. Luckily, I use both VLC and Handbrake to convert these files.

I don’t know if I’d recommend Core Innovations models, since it cost twice the amount (almost) of an Ematic models, which you pay wayyy less. My unit died after weeks of use, and I switched to an Ematic. Just saying this because the ones from Walmart are $40+. I mean, it works, but my model died after several weeks of use. Ematic ones are what I recommend, and plus they are nearly identical in OS and software/encoders.

But an Ematic, I’ve had mine for almost a year now, and no issues!

EDIT: Yes, some models are clone of others, it’s just that Ematics are cheaper and for me, seem to work much better. I bet I could use the same remote of my Core Innovations on my Ematic

I’m planning on designing my own home theater system and I had the idea of installing the EMATIC converter box to my home theater AV rack if you didn’t know what AV stands for it is Audio Video rack it’s one of my video sources of my home theater build

Can i use this box just as a media player? Like judt to view my mp4 files? Is it posible

Correct me if I am wrong but the only drawback is you can't record one channel and watch a different channel at the same time? Great video. Thanks again.