Tivax DT-01 Amplified Indoor Digital TV Antenna-Black

This antenna came fully assembled and was in perfect condition. However, it is important that a customer first consult their television manual before hooking it up. This is basically because most of the current TVs have a program in their menu section that searches out digital signals which the antenna will pick up. I did this with my TV and it worked perfectly. When I press the up or down button on my TV remote, I never have static channels. The picture always comes in perfectly. Another important suggestion is to make sure the antenna is no more than 15 feet away from a window inside a room. Also, be careful handling the antenna because it is very sensitive, and it needs to receive digital signals. I was very impressed with this antenna for broadcast TV. I never thought it would do such a great job. I was pleasantly surprised because I also have cable TV in my home. If I had to give up cable TV, I would not hesitate to use this antenna for broadcast programs on my other TV.

I've been quite disappointed with this antenna -- so much so that we went back to having cable television rather than working through over-the-air broadcasts.The set-up itself is quite easy. However, there is a major limitation: You can't use your own coaxial cable to connect to a tv or converter box. The coax cable is built into the unit, and is very short, making it difficult to adjust the set-up if the reception is poor and you need to move the antenna.Reception has been unimpressive at best. We live in an area that should, according to all of the DTV transmitter maps, have excellent reception for a large number of stations. However, I have yet to be able to get ABC, CBS, and NBC (all of which broadcast from a similar direction from our house) to work simultaneously. When I adjust the antenna to work for one network, the other cuts out. At best I've been able to get 5 channels. The instruction manual is unhelpful with regards to adjusting the antenna for better reception.One positive feature is the amplification. Turning on the amplification, and increasing the gain, makes a very large difference in reception.Indoor antennas are notoriously poor and almost uniformly inferior to outdoor antennas. Nevertheless, I was particularly disappointed with this item.

I live in the Hollywood foothills. I'm probably 10-15 feet up with 300-500 feet of hills across the street from my living room. U-verse doesn't offer its full package here yet and I refuse to pay Time-Warner for two boxes just because they suddenly decided to put every single channel behind a box at $12 per. I have two TVs and I decided to try the every channel plan for a few months to see how it compared. The small converter box for the second TV does not have many of the channels that were on my plan. If I wanted to watch HBO in my room I had to watch it on the HBOGo App. I could get some channels on the Time Warner app on my Roku. I quickly decide it was not worth it and looked into OTA-TV. I tried a couple of cheap RCA ones. They didn't work but I figured what so I expect for $12. I moved up to the Mohu Leaf amplified antennas which were running $50, $60, $70 per antenna - I still had 0 reception. I has resigned myself to paying Time-Warner something silly for too many channels that I can't see in my room.During this time I had to place my mom in a nursing home. Those places are on a budget. She is one of the lucky ones, she got a room with a nice view and a circa 1980 25 inch CRT with a digital converter box and some old looking rabbit ears. The home is also in a hilly area a bit east of my place but she gets reception. I had to look online to see if they still made rabbit ears. I saw this product. It comes with a built in amplifier that plugs into the wall. I get great reception and I have many channels to choose from. I also have Netflix and Amazon Prime to keep me entertained. Now if I could only figure out how to get rid of Time-Warner for my high speed internet?

I bought this [as suggested by amazon) along with the Zinwell ZAT-970A 'Digital to Analog Converter Box,' to put on my second elderly pre-digital TV (which has been only used for DVDs in recent months)...so that I could watch broadcast TV on either set. I thought I'd Git Real Bright and hook this Fancy New 'Amplified' Antenna to the oldest TV (a 1998 Philips-Magnavox model PR1905X101), which doesn't have DVD capabilities. And then I'd put my $5.99 old funky rabbit ears on the newer TV (a 2006 Polaroid TTM-2003) which also needs a Converter Box...'cause the Polaroid has a built-in DVD player, and so I wouldn't care if it didn't get so many channels with the old funky cheapo rabbit ears, eh. Well-then...I hooked up yon Fab New Antenna to the elderly Philips-Magnavox TV with a Magnavox converter box model E175216. And :::: no matter what I did, I could only get ONE CHANNEL and *IT* kept breaking up, hunh! This caused me to become Quite Peevish, and I was fixin' to return this-here antenna with a Bitter Complaint. So I put the cheapo rabbit ears back on the 1998 set (with the same Philips-Magnavox converter box it had been usin'....where it gets, like 3-and-a-half channels, even though I only live two miles from the TV towers in a major metropolitan area, eh). But before returning it, I said, wot-th-heck...I'll try this antenna on the Zinwell converter and the newer Polaroid set. Bingo! Works dandy. What I'm gettin' at here :::: is mebbe this antenna will work with YOUR converter box and TV combo....and mebbe it WON'T. Caveat emptor.