| Zenith DTT900 Digital to Analog Converter |
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| Written by Karl Zuk | |
| Saturday, 01 March 2008 | |
ZENITH DTT990 DIGITAL TO ANALOG CONVERTER BOX By WTFDA Member Karl Zuk First impressions of Zenith DTT900 DTV converter: Cool front panel display - red LED off - blue LED on Lame feature: You must have the remote to complete any functions beyond on/off and channel changing. You must have the remote to perform an initial set-up. No remote - no working converter box. The single AAA battery supplied with the remote has thin clear plastic over it. This can be tricky. It had me for a minute. The on screen display has the LG look and signature. The on screen channel display is nice and large. Channel scan is relatively fast. My first scan produced 51 stations! Picture and sound come on immediately when the scan is done. The unit has a self-setting auto time-of-day clock. The signal meter is a nice big on-screen display but includes an annoying whiny DirecTV-like sound registry, as well. I guess the intent was for antenna alignment when you can't see the screen but you can hear the audio? The audio volume control works well. The deep menu aspect ratio settings have two levels. If you set it to Normal 4:3 it will (kind of) select your screen display for you. If you select 16:9, a second menu becomes available with quite a choice of display sizes. The remote control also allows you to change the aspect ratio and display look. The deep menu captioning settings allow you to choose between relying on 608 analog or 708 digital captions. Cool. But there is no "auto" to have one default to the other. The unit has an auto-off feature with five settings: off, delay 1,2,3 or 4 hours. The audio out can be set for mono or stereo. The sensitivity and selectivity are not notably different than the Accurian box it replaced. I will watch the way if behaves with propagation fading and DXing. So far: nice but no amazing improvement in pick up. All in all, I'm very satisfied with it. It is very small (about the size of a small paperback book. It will only sit horizontally. It does not have an upright stand like the RCA. The signal meter (and the entire on-screen display) is almost identical to the LST-3100A from LG. Yes, it will show signal strengths of signals it can not resolve. Also, excellent feature, it allows you to enter complete virtual channel numbers (i.e 61-4) instead of just 61 and it also allows complete manual tuning. |
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