Oh, I see what you are after; a vcr that can change the channel on the tuner on the converter box. Not sure if any can or ever will.

I guess that 1% group is going to be pissed Sorry you are in it.

Seriously though, you are on this forum so you probably bought around a $300 internet tablet and are obviously not a luddite; what do you have against buying some type of DVR that has a digital tuner?

OR

You could get some kind of IR thingy setup, some vcrs used to come with those to control cable boxes and maybe you can get it to work

OR

according to some, the echostar tr40 converter box MIGHT have this capability(timed channel changing)