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I have never owned an Apex product before buying this converter box. It is a piece of sh*t. They should be recalled. I have 2 days left on my waarranty and the remmote died. Did everything prescribed to remedy the problem. Nothing worked. Unplugged all cables, everything. The box is hot to the touch wheneber it is on. Now, I cannopt tell whether it is just the remote that is bad or the u nit itself.

Meanwhile, I bought an Insignia box from Best Buy at the same time that I bought the Apex DT250. I hooked up the Insignia box to the cables that were on the Apex box. Guess what? Without any reorienting of the antenna or reprogramming, I was able to pull in 7 new channels. Called Apex and they want me to pay to send in the remote. You would think a company would send something as cheap as a remote without asking for the old part. When I called Apex, I asked for the part number and they told me that there is none and I would have to order it from them. They would not me the code for the box. I asked if it was an 8 bit, 16 bit, or what. They said they didn't know. I don't believe a word they said. There is no way that I am going to spend almost $20.00, a third of the cost of a new remote to run this piece of sh*t box.

NEVER, EVER BUY ANYTHING MADE BY APEX. YOU WILL REGRET IT. I am going to report it to the FCC. TALK ABOUT BUILT IN OBSOLECENCE! THIS IS THE WORST EXAMPLE THAT I HAVE EVER SEEN.