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I have cable on the TV's in my home but not out in the shop, so when they first came out I bought a Zenith box and use it out there for repair work: it works great and picks up a number of channels steadily on just rabbit ears.
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The Magnavox I have works OK, but the remote is dying. I can't scan channels or do mkuch else except use the power button and the channel up/down buttons.
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11-11-2012, 05:10 PM
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11-11-2012, 08:37 PM
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I have an APEX TV from 2001. 20", and it sucked.
It had good picture, but it's OSD didn't genlock right and would start shaking after the TV warmed up, and the picture's rotation was off, on only the bottom. On the top it was fine though. Odd. And on top of that, it did some kind of weird AGC that would cause the black level to brighten and darken depending what was on the picture. The CRT itself was Samsung though.
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11-11-2012, 10:02 PM
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I've thrown out two apex DTV boxes with low hours on them. Both had symptoms of bad power supply capacitors; but, that was not the problem.
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11-12-2012, 08:18 AM
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Magnavox's and their clones are totally useless without the remote. Lucky thing I was able to use an RCA universal remote.
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11-12-2012, 08:54 AM
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Don't forget Coby boxes! Junk!
Best DXer is Digital Stream, then Insignia (LG), then Channel Master. What gets me is the Coby has S video out and the box is garbage! It runs so hot you can keep coffee warm on it.
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11-13-2012, 03:05 PM
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My channel master has been in the shop about 5 years now, left on through power blinks and extreme temperatures. Many channels (even some skip-DX from DC and NYC) have been scanned in but finally its power on LED "went red" indicating a fault. Leaving it un plugged for weeks dint help. Guess I need to look at the caps.
BTW, I have a Tivax in my attic that seems to operate as well as my LG-Zenith and Digital Stream boxes with different OSd's. My father in law got the coupons, went to walmart and came home with 4 Magnavox boxes before I could set him straight.
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11-16-2012, 10:01 PM
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I have an Apex. It was the only box I could find that had S Video out. It is a crummy box with slow channel change. And if the signal is marginal, it will lock up and need rebooting.
However, the benefit of Apex over all other boxes is that it was the only box I could find which allows you (from the S Video) to extract the luminance (black and white) signal without the interleaved chroma. This is especially important with early sets employing full bandwidth 4 MHz response like my late '40's RCA sets. It means that the black and white image will not have the crawling dots: its just like going back to the old fully black and white days! I also have a Zenith DTT901. It was one of the first boxes to automatically format the image to a 4x3 screen using the broadcast signal AFD (Active Format Descriptor). If the broadcaster is sending the signal out correctly (many do not) then the DTT901 will automatically format full frame 16x9 and 16x9, 4x3 "pillarbox" video to the screen. Last edited by Penthode; 11-16-2012 at 10:05 PM.
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