Audiovox RCA ANT1450 Multidirectional HDTV Antenna

I bought this product with relatively low expectations. I live far away from any broadcast stations, so I needed a powerful antenna to get reception. This product took awhile to adjust but I got 12 more channels from it than rabbit ears. The picture quality is OK (I asume that it would work much better if you lived close to a broadcast station). Even so, this product is of fairly good quality. I recommend buying it. Note: Every antenna works differently in different locations. It is not guaranteed to give the same results anywhere.

Been reading alot about different hdtv antennas and decided to give this one a try. I would like to get rid of my cable bill and just hook up a powerfull antenna to my lcd screen. I hooked this one up direct to my bedroom tv Philips 26" LCD. I tried it without the amp first to try my test. I picked up a bunch of stations. Alot of the digital ones would come in and out, the analog ones just stank. Try the amp on it now, moved it around a bit to find a sweet spot and connected the little metal stand thingy that comes with it. Basicly it looks like a ramp with the metal bracket. Wow, I got like 40 digital stations and a bunch of analog. 2 - 13 digital staions came in crystal clear. The other stations where Spanish and Korean, some english ones and they came in very nice. I will most likely return this one and look for a little bit better one. But all in all if I did not want to pay for cable anymore and go the cheap route this would of did fine for my bedroom. I did hook it up in my living room too and it worked just as well if not better. I'm going to shop around and see what other ones they have, even if I just hook it up as an emergency antenna in case cable goes out. So far I'll keep cable only because I don't understand Spanish or Korean. If I understood Spanish I would most likely get rid of cable.

I live in Justice, IL. just outside Chicago, and it works pretty good for me. I first tried it with the amplifier, (separate unit). I get a better stronger signal without it though. It definitely increased the signal over my indoor rabbit ears antenna. It might require a little adjusting (direction) to get the best reception. For the price, it works pretty good for me with a DTV converter. TRY IT AND IF IT DOESN'T WORK GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU, TAKE IT BACK.

My house is a reception anomaly. Radio, cell phones and TV's get no signal. I had a rabbit-ear antenna because I was too cheap to pay for cable. But, after having to adjust them for each channel, every time, I broke down and got basic cable. I wasn't going to buy a DTV converter because I have cable and will not lose reception. But, I wanted to make sure if the day came that I didn't want to pay for cable it wouldn't mean having to buy a new TV. I did some research and I noticed that people were talking about getting HD channels, in addition to the DTV! So I figured if I could get a decent selection of channels, great picture quality, without paying for it each month, that was worth looking into. Besides, I planned on opening the packages carefully in case the claims of great TV were exaggerated. Then I would just stick with cable and return the stuff. For what I pay for 2 months of cable, I got the converter box and the antenna. I get 20 channels with flawless reception! THE ONLY ADJUSTMENTS I HAD TO MAKE WAS PLACING IT WHERE IT WASN”T BLOCKED FROM THE SIGNALS. There was none of the usual adjusting knobs and antennas like with rabbit ears. I plugged it in and it worked. It does not get any easier than that. I get ALL the local HDTV, all the DTV channels (ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CW, PBS, and some other random ones; qubo, ION, etc). My advice; First, make sure the antenna can pick up UHF/VHF, DTV and HDTV. This one does. If it doesn't, you'll probably just get the DTV channels. I don't have an HDTV, you don't need one. I assume the picture may look better, but I can't imagine how much better it could get! I can not understand how it is possible this wouldn't have worked for others. Especially since the only thing you do is plug it in! Also, not mentioned any where except inside the package, you can paint it! It's a thin, flat, light weight square. Paint it the color of your wall you'll never see it. This thing is astounding!

As many have said, this antenna will not perform as well as a basic set of "rabbit ears". The design is an attempt to make a more aesthetic antenna without loosing too much functionality. It works reasonably well for a cheap antenna as long as your near the broadcast source. However, it is far from omnidirectional as the manufacturer claims. Other than that there's nothing wrong with this product that I can tell. The signal amplifier seems to work well too, in my case it was required to pick up more than 2 channels. I made a mistake by picking this product, I will be returning it and purchasing a better quality model. Remember you get what you pay for, and this model is inexpensive. This product should only be purchased by those: - who can't install an outdoor antenna - find the appearance of "rabbit ears" unsightly enough to sacrifice a bit of reception quality - live very close to broadcast sources (as in can get at least some signal from stations with NO antenna)

The package is nice to be able to hang on a wall or hide away somewhere. The problem is that it works much worse than basic rabbit ears for VHF reception, even with the amplifier. This product should only be used if you are <20 miles from the TV transmitter. I couldn't test the UHF reception because where I live I get the local UHF channels even without an antenna. But, it sure didn't work at all to pick up UHF stations a little further away. I returned the unit to Walmart. If you want a really good basic antenna, the only one I was able to find that actually works is a Philips SDV2270/17. I found that one at Lowes. The SDV2270 really pulled in the VHF stations far better than three other antennas I tried, and it is far less expensive.

and get something that really does the job. This unit would not pull in as many channels as my old rabbit ears would. I thought with the RCA name it would be solid quality, but I was sadly mistaken. It might work close to the city, but it does nothing beyond that. This one is going back to the store in the morning.

This is not worth the thirty dollars i spent on it. I can pick up more channels with a cheap $10 pair of rabbit ears.

We have been trying to get our dtv converter boxes to work.. they csr guy from teh converter box company said to get an amplified digital antenna.. we got this one.. our old anolog rabbit ears worked better and we still didnt get a signal for our converter box. We got a crystal clear image from our old analog rabbit ears.. and with this thing, in any position its fuzzy. now we have to return it and get another one.

I purchased this antenna today and was disappointed that it provided much worse reception (with and without the amplied attachment) than my broken down and taped up old rabbit ears! So, it's back to square one. I'm taking it back and will search for another pair of rabbit ears. This goes to show ya that fancier and more expensive doesn't necessarily mean "better" when it comes to electronics!