works well, but needs someone to translate the manual for a lay person
589424
The printer orks beautifully, but the first time use and set up was challenging for a lay person like me. I needed someone to translate some of the language used into more lay person terms.
1508736
Works great and the price is awesome, but a manual would have been nice.
768709
Received the converter on time and in excellent condition.  The device itself has many useful features - HDMI, a USB port, and recording features to flash drive, or USB external hard drive.  I bought the set to be able to use the older DVD recorder that could not access digital signals after I quit using my cable TV system and switched over to using an indoor antenna.  The antenna worked fine for the digital TV tuner, but would not work on the DVD player's old analog tuner.  I'm in an area that has access to a lot of TV stations that can be received through the air - I can get 80 channels with my indoor antenna.  Some of them are even worth watching; fortunately, some ones i was actually hoping for.
  So far, the only thing I don't like about the purchase is the truly awful user's manual.  It's practically unusable, with difficult English phrasing, and useless, tiny pictures.  If this is your first electronic device, this manual will be no help at all.
  However, what the set will do is worth the price, easily.  The HDMI hookup is now my main use for watching TV - it is not only delivering beautiful pictures and sound, but it makes the signals from the antenna rock solid - much better than those from the TV tuner. And, recording is quite easy too.  You plug in a FAT32 formatted USB flash drive to the front of the set, and push Record on the remote, and it starts recording.  You have to hunt in the menu a bit to find the file, and do the playback of it, but the file itself is perfect.  The manual does not even cover how to check for the file after recording it.
  Really, the manufacturer should have done away with the manual long ago, and spent some money to hire someone who can write correct English, and correct descriptions of how to do things, or the other languages offered in the manual, which, I assume are equally useless.  The manual also needs to be at least 3 times the size so the pictures would be of some use, and they should be in color, since the menu icons are.

  So far - the device gets a 10  the manual gets a 1

Update:  The converter box has formatting, and can only format in FAT 32, or NTFS.  I tried the exFAT format on a flash drive, formatting it on a Mac running OS10.6, which can make drives work on both PCs and Macs, but not in this case.  The converter does not recognize the exFAT format, and for a flash drive to be
recognized by the box, you have to re-format the drive in FAT 32, which you can do on the box.  3.5" external USB hard drives can be formatted only in NTFS to work on the box, but 2.5" and 1.8" drives can be formatted in either FAT 32 or NTFS and be recognized by the box.  Unfortunately, NTFS is a PC format that only works on PCs, unlike FAT 32.  NTFS does not have the 4GB file limitation for recording as FAT 32 does.
  The recorded file created by the converter box is readable by player applications like VLC, and others, and VLC is also able to burn the file to disc within the application, where my version of Toast (8) cannot - it doesn't recognize the file format.
  Although the NTFS format is not native to the Mac, there is a good application that can be purchased that will load the format into the Format section in the Erase function window in the Disk Utility application in the Utilities Folder.  With the NTFS format in there, you can erase any USB hard drive - 3.5", 2.5", and 1.8" - and format it with NTFS, and the disc will mount on the desktop, and be usable as a record drive on the converter box.  Files can be recorded without having 4GB limits as with the FAT32 format.
With the NTFS format, the converter recognizes the hard drive as a USB device.  The NTFS formatting application should work well with Mac operating systems from 10.4.
The recorded file from the converter can be played on a Mac computer using player applications like VLC; also, VLC can burn the file to disc within the application.
4509603
English. If somebody could just write an owners manual and simple to read easy to understand English it would be much appreciated. I don't know who writes these manuals,  but they should not be allowed to do this anymore. Good product confusing to use ridiculously stupid manual.  It should not be this difficult to learn how to use a product.
3201610
I think the calculator is a good one, but the manual that came with it was in Chinese or some other oriental language - just a flimsy and impractical fold out in English.  I returned the first one I got for that reason, with assurance from the Amazon rep that the next one should have a manual in English.  Unbelievable!  I don't really fault Amazon, but the seller, Port Trading US.  Product should have been clearly marked as having manual in Chinese, and not English.

My daughter is leaving for college in next day or so, so she'll just have to download a pdf and deal with it.
4835110
The product itself is good. However, I really think there is huge improvement in its manual. The manual should be color printed otherwise it's really difficult to see the in black and white. It should be really helpful if they can record some video instruction and upload that.
4907327
There were no instructions on how to use it. For example how to change channels and how to parr the device. The instruction booklet is all about bar codes and little about the device and on how to program the reader. I had purchased the cheaper model and have it working well. The booklet tells how to read, transfer the data, and clear the device. it will insert the single or multiple reads into Microsoft Word and Excel. I was hoping that the more expensive model would allow a distant transmission of the data to the computer, but so far no luck. THE COMPANY HAS CONTACTED ME ON A FEW OCCASIONS AND HAS HELPED TO SOLVE ALL THE PROBLEMS. SO I AM NOW VERY SATISFIED WITH THE DEVICE AND THE SUPPORT.
661895
Very handy.  Not the same as my cooker so there is some translation necessary.
406828
Took some trial and error because there are no English instructions, but once it was set up it worked great
248
For the price, I'm happy with this and it will satisfy any of my small wood working needs. The instruction manual however is something absurd. There's no way you'll learn anything from it except maybe what you can discern from the illustrations (they call them 'plans' ). Here's a couple of examples and verbatim: 'The cent of product has no class to adjust soon with single soon two kinds', 'In stallwith adjust this machine current public affairs to cut off the power supply necessarily.' , 'by rule usage rev.' , 'The operation insureses before headstock covers.' , it goes on and on. If you can figure out what any of this is saying you're a sharper person than me. It came with 2 small springs, and 2 little little shim pedestals which I have no clue what for. They're not even in the manual's illustrations.
2756395
I like the clock/radio/alarm now that I'm getting used to the settings. You may want to open one up and read the instructions. Who ever did the translation didn't do a very good job. It's readable but confusing.
4724573
I am still trying to figure out how to get it to work. The manual could be written in that little used language ENGISH! rather than pictograms.
4908831
I have to agree with most of the other posters that the instructions are not ready for prime time. In this day and age translations should be much much better.  With that said if you dump the instructions and skate around the menus you can figure out almost anything quickly and remember them as there really isn't much to any of the settings unless you are seriously memory-strapped and must rely on instructions! I find the product pretty good for the price and its size and features. No one that I have seen has touched this price-wise so we should all be grateful for someone from Asia coming up with the goods for the masses at a very reasonable price. Bluetooth works pretty good and once connected it stays on course without much fanfare. MP3 formatted songs work for me and that it can handle pretty much any quality is good enuf for me. Scap the extras and the video and the rest of the extras and you have a fine MP3 player wirelessly. The 64gb card slot also works just fine and my card is ExFat formatted which is just fine too!  The only real issue I have with the device is that, like others, you have to stop where you are at, shut down basically, and relaunch to get to the extra music settings but then the song resets back to the beginning if not back up a few folder levels. Ugghhh!!
4574713
Someone really really needs to tell these people to hire a professional to write their user manual.  Really.  Manual refers to buttons that are not marked and not in picture.  Word choices border on bizarre.  The reason I gave it 3 stars and not zero is that it works and sounds fantastic. This is the best clock radio I have ever had including Sony, Panasonic, and a bunch of others over the years.  The problem is I shouldn't have had to spend a week figuring out how to get basic functions to work, like turning off the alarm in the morning. And, I had to give up on a couple features just due to lack of time with that "manual".
2623028
Not the best language reader I have used, but it works.  Difficult structure used sometimes; no explanations.  I wish I could reproduce the audio so I could carry it with me.
1784357
Works great. Instructions are hard to follow because they were written by someone that isn't great at english. I just followed a youtube video of how to set it up instead of trying to decipher the written instructions.
543912
The user manual is not so good but if you search on Velleman DVM13MFC2 you will find a better User Manual.