Zenith HDR230 High Definition Receiver Reviews

I used to be an editor for a trade magazine in the television industry and this had a few perqs. One was that I occasionally was given equipment to use, so that I could better understand the technology I was writing about. One of these was a Zenith HDR230, an off-the-air HDTV receiver with a built-in digital recorder. It is something of an odd-duck piece of gear with some VERY cool features.

What It Is

The Zenith HDR230 has two primary functions: It can receive digital TV broadcasts either off-the-air or over a digital cable system, and it can record this digital stream on a built-in hard drive....