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I'm 24 hours in and it's a mixed bag of mostly FAILS.

- My local FOX affiliate is being broadcast on VHF 6.2. It often freezes, pixilates, audio drop outs and it's crashed the Hopper twice so far. Sometimes if I just leave it and the picture returns but most of the time I need to change the channel. When I return the picture is fine but it inevitably starts again. In order to test this I ran my antenna directly to my 5 year old Samsung LED and it tuned 6.1 perfectly with no freezing, pixilation or audio drop outs. There's something wrong with the tuner or the Hopper software because this is a FAIL.

-My local PBS does not tune via the adapter. Again, I tested it by going directly to the TV and it tuned fine along with the accompanying sub channels. It's being broadcast on 10.1 locally and the sub channels are 10.2 and 10.3. This is another FAIL.

- One group of channels in the 44.1-44.6 group is unwatchable. Once again, straight to the TV and while it's watchable there is some audio drop outs. Only a partial FAIL.

- Other than the FOX mess and PBS the rest of my locals tune fine with the adapter. The 44 group of channels I won't be watching anyway.

- I put a high quality splitter(-3.5dB) in after my antenna with one going to the adapter and the other to the TV. It works fine for my local FOX and PBS (rarely watch) but completely FAILS in wifey approval rating because of the remote control gymnastics. I have to change the input with the TV remote, change my audio source with my AVR remote then back to the TV remote to tune FOX then the AVR remote to control volume. Juggling 3 remotes is not going to go over well with wifey so I may have to stick with the locals through DISH even after spending money on the adapter and new OTA antenna. I do get the local channel I lost with the dispute but this is a poor solution and I'm likely stuck still paying for locals.

Hopefully a solution can be figured out as to why the adapter doesn't tune all the available channels and why one is so bad. Never thought the standard ATSC tuner in a TV would work better than a Hopper or a piece of Dish equipment. FAIL

EDIT: Just realized if I did drop locals I would lose the ability to DVR my local FOX station. Another point of FAIL for dropping locals