Additional FeaturesOther features include Parental Control, EPG, Signal Quality Indicator, Closed Captioning, and more, all in a full-function remote control.Analog Pass-Through Channel 3/4Are analog signals are still present in your area? With the 3500STB's analog pass-through capabilities, you can keep watching these stations through channels 3 or 4.This eliminates the need to purchase any other video player. The 3500STB is also a universal media player, and automatically recognizes most of the popular video or audio file formats. Enjoy the luxury of high definition by connecting an HDMI cable from the 3500STB HDMI output to your television. Multimedia FunctionsPlay all your music, video, and movies from your USB flash or HDD drives, and watch video on any resolution: 1080p, 1080i, 72-p, or even 576p.Using the Time shift function you will be able to pause and rewind live TV. All you need is a stick with a large enough capacity and record live TV. PVR FunctionWith PVR function, the IVIEW 3500STB records TV programs directly onto a memory stick.Watch them on your television without using any additional set-top box, for which you may have to pay a monthly subscription. With a supporting OTA (Over-the-Air) and QAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) tuner built in, the 3500STB can pull certain unencrypted digital cable channels. Digital-to-Analog ConverterThe IVIEW 3500STB converts digital signals to your analog TV.We recommend you to buy the complete bundle or iView 3500STBII and an indoor antenna, if you don’t need a HDMI cable. The iView 3500STBII is no different from the earlier model we tested and we don’t understand the real significance of suffix ‘II’ in the product code. But reaffirmed the need of indoor antenna, which came with the bundle (Homeworx Flat DTV Antenna). It is worth mentioning that we were satisfied with performance and quality of earlier variant. Having said that, iView could have innovated a little more when it comes to the box design. We guess the company is supplying same remote for both variants now a days. The remote need not to be directed towards the box for using. There is no addition or remove of features between the upgrades? We must point out that the remote is slightly improved from what we got last time. Both variants come with basic features like media recording, media playback through USB port, auto tuning and electronic program guide. We still feel an external indoor antenna is much required for catching week signals.Įven on functionality front we didn’t notice any difference. Having used the device for few days, we didn’t find any significant difference in signal reception capability. Our main point of interest if its signal reception capability. But we reserve judgment on the similarity between variants till a detailed review. iView 3500STBII doesn’t come with an indoor antenna and HDMI cable along with the box as compared to earlier model we reviewed. One obvious deference we noticed is the earlier variant came with bundled freebies. Supports video recording and media playback from USB flash drives. Does these models really differ from each other variants from the company and does these models overcome the cons of its predecessor (one we reviewed)? Let’s find it out in our iView HDTV 3500STBII review.ĭecent digital converter box at affordable price, much responsive remote control, catches even few cable QAM signals with a good indoor antenna. We were curious to get one more variant of them test in detail. All these three digital converter boxes look exactly same in terms of design and size. We found that the company has two more variant in the market with product names ‘Multi-function Digital Converter Box’ and ‘iView HDTV 3500STBII’. We reviewed its predecessor iView HDTV 3500STB sometime back.
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