The Mediasonic Homeworx HW130STB is up there with the most versatile and full-featured digital converters. You'll also be able to play VC-1 videos, which is not necessarily the best format out there but there aren't too many digital converter boxes that support this format, so the ability alone is always a plus. The FLV format that the device supports too is not as prevalent though, which's unfortunate for the devices that are missing this format and great for this particular because you're able to listen to lossless music. Sure, there's nothing impressive about this box being able to run Divx, AVI, MKV, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264/AVC, VOB, and MOV. Among those reasons are the formats that the device supports.

There are many reasons why this digital converter box is better than most prospects on the market right now. Interestingly, besides perfect configuration, the manufacturer tried to provide this model with different additional peculiarities including a capacity to record any live broadcast on the external devices, an information guide, a content multimedia playback function via USB, parental control, closed-caption display function, autotuning, and the creation of your favorite channels list. It's a good addition considering the money it costs. Thus, with an appropriate socket on your TV, you can efficiently transfer high-quality images from the tuner to a TV panel. It's rare to see this connectivity option among the competitors. The first thing you'll notice when connecting the Viewtv AT-163 digital converter is that there is an HDMI cable besides a composite one.

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