Ok, I took the bait too.
Watching FOX HD on it now. It's no better or worse than the typical DTV converters. Real easy to get it to block up and no-signal. I'm in an urban area right now and it picks up DTV ok inside a wood-frame building. Will try countryside reception pretty soon. Analog reception is poor so far.
It's not much bigger than a remote but it came with a remote too which was interesting. You wouldn't normally sit more than a few feet from it so I don't know how useful the remote would ever be. The volume control and brightness are regular pots, so they're not remote controllable either. It has an AV-in port, so it would make a good bullet-cam monitor. RF-in port for external antenna. Little 1-inch speakers are pretty tinny, but headphones sound pretty good. Setup menus and channel selection are comparable to the DTV converter boxes. No signal strength meter.
HD channels are nice and clear, but not enough pixels to do full HD clarity. But clarity seems as good or better than, say, a Trinitron from a decade ago. Pretty good contrast for an LCD. It's a good deal for the money.
Probably will have to have an outdoor antenna setup with a cable end available in the storm cellar, to use it as a bad-weather set. I don't think it would get anything on its own underground.
And the Phillies just won, game over for the Dodgers, so I'm out.