Zinwell ZAT-970A Digital to Analog TV Converter Box Customer Review:The Zinwell ZAT-970A has been reported to be one of the best converter boxes on the market, and for the most part i agree.Aside from the remote for this unit having a toyish "feel" to it, I really have qualms or gripes for this converter box .
The Zinkwell synchronizes its clock signal from the digital output,as a result every event i have scheduled has went off without a hitch. If you are buying this to schedule timed events, you can rest assured that your scheduled taping of American Idol will indeed be recorded should the sudden urge to make a frozen yougurt run arise. The Zinwell has no daylight savings on/off (but hey, what can you do?), If its any consolation. The Zinwell has the option of letting you manually you can manually set the time. Not to be a complete blowhard,but after manually setting the time in the Zinwell, I found it loses 1-2 minutes per week and also loses the clock time completely if power goes out even for a second (most devices will hold the time for 2-3 minutes in a power outage). I have mine on a UPS (backup battery) to keep it from losing time in a brief power outage. In this respect, the Zinwell permits you to control the time.
On at least one occasion, the Zinwell mysteriously changed the number of channels (ch. 5 suddenly became 31) with no way of changing the numbers back-even re-recognizing does not help. The Zinwell has a quirk at the end of the timer scheduling process that makes it easy to cancel your timer event, so be aware.
In analog pass-thru mode ,The Zinwell puts a little interference on the analog signal, but if you connect all cables (both RF/coax and RCA/composite) it keeps digital operation alive while in pass-thru mode so it is easy to switch back and forth between digital and analog channels. As such the Zinwell cpnvertor must be powered on in order to use analog pass-thru.
If you like on-screen program guides, theZinwell will be your kind of convertor box, You can even schedule timer events direct from the program guide .Be you a seasoned pro or total newbie, If you get a Zinwell, it would be wise to keep as well as consult the manual. Zinwell for some strange reason decided to set a password on some of the channel functions, so you will need to look up the default password in the manual if you try to access these functions.
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