Got my digital TV box coupon, and bought a box "Insignia" brand

[wa2ise]

Got my digital set top digital TV converter box coupons today. They look like credit cards, with a magnetic strip on the back. Went to a Best Buy and used a coupon to get the $40 off an "Insignia" brand box. With the 7% NJ sales tax, I paid about $25. Model NS-DXA1

My review of this box:

It actually works quite well. My location is Oradell NJ, exit 165 off the parkway, 14 miles due north of the Empire State Building. It picked up all the local NYC digital stations with just an UHF hoop antenna (the kind that came with vacuum tube TVs with UHF in the mid 60's). And when connected to an outside roof UHF corner reflector, it gets channel 55 from Riverhead NY, and channel 58 (really on VHF 8) from central NJ. That's very good, considering that I'm using a UHF only antenna on the box.

I don't see any evidence of the front end getting overloaded.

The box comes with a remote control that can be programmed to turn the NTSC TV set on or off (if that TV has a remote eyeball). And you can adjust the volume up or down (inside the box itself, not the TV's volume directly) with the box's remote. For once they got it right. This volume control adjusts the RCA left and right output jacks and the volume level on the locally generated TV RF out.