First Look: Dish Network's DTVPal Digital Converter

[Smith, P.]

Umm, Scott ? Pictures inside ?

[Scott Greczkowski]

No inside pictures. The unit is sealed plastic with no screws. I dont want to break it as I think I an going to be using this thing a lot.

My Touchsmart PC has an ATSC tuner built in to it, but it cant pick up half of the OTA Digital channels the DTVPal can. I am still surprised at what I am pulling in here from my desk with a $2 antenna.

[Smith, P.]

Give it to me. If you even break the plastic, the Dpal will works OK, don't worry.

[partsman_ba]

It was strange to see it airing over the commercial. I have been tuned to that channel for over an hour now and have not see the crawl go by again.

Scott, I have one local that runs a crawl with that same info once a day at the same time in the evening - think it's part of the requirements of the FCC for the changeover.

[TalkingRat]

Thanks for the review!!! Can you ask them what big parts they are using? Wiki had it as MicroTune.

So to be sure, it has an on/off for cc instead of having to go through 15 settings to turn it off/on? That would be very cool.

[riffjim4069]

I always wondered what those darn G-Spot, er...I mean, G_Link cables were be used for. Anyway, although I have never used them, I thought the G-link was an output port on my Sony HD DVR used for controlling timed recordings done by a VCR or other recording device. In any case, I am pretty sure the G-link is output only so this still doesn't explain how the analog TVGOS device gets fed it's datastream from the DTV Pal.

[Scott Greczkowski]

The device which has TVGOS would control the DTVPal.

[Scott Greczkowski]

So to be sure, it has an on/off for cc instead of having to go through 15 settings to turn it off/on? That would be very cool.

Correct, push the page down arrow and CC is on...press it again and the CC is off.

Very simple. I also like the fact that you can change the font, color etc...

[ReconPJ]

Was that Days of our Lives on there?

[brownover]

Scott, do you have to push the analog pass thru button when you want to watch a satellite program on the tv? Of course, I am feeding it from a 622.