Antennas Direct DB4 Multi-Directional HDTV Antenna
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Customer Review: Inexpensive Solution
Summary: 5 Stars
Recently when my wife and I decided to cancel our cable service we were faced with having to purchase a new HDTV antenna for our house. I spent a lot of time shopping in store and online trying to find something that would work reliably without breaking the bank. Many of the store associates suggested large boom style antennas that cost well over $100. I happened upon this model and after reading all the positive reviews took the plunge.
First of all, this antenna is small. Since we were mounting outdoors and our roof line is rather low, I was concerned about having a huge antenna jutting from our roof. This one tucks out of sight nicely which is a definite plus. We chose to mount the antenna on the Antennas Direct 75 Cm J-mount/mast which works perfectly. It took less than an hour to get our antenna and mast mounted and ready to go.
Some of my relatives have experienced issues with signal loss in our area, however, we have had no issues with this antenna. We live in a suburban area outside of a major city and have many mature trees around our house. We have strong signals across the band and have not experienced any issues with interference from weather or anything else. I have been very happy with this antenna. Do yourself a favor and bypass the store antennas for $100+ and pick this one up now!
Customer Review: Works well for Raleigh area digital HDTV
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought my stepfather one of these for Father's Day and set it up at my parents' house yesterday. They are south of Garner, but still in Raleigh. After the digital switch, they lost reception of Univision & Ion, and they've always received blocky reception using a run-of-the-mill indoor antenna. With the DB4, my parents can watch Univision crisply and clearly, as well as receiving all of the other channels much better than before.
I have the antenna pointing approx. 230 degrees (or roughly southwest) to accommodate the Univision signal [check out antennaweb.org for compass directions]. This is just about the opposite direction from the major networks' signals, but they all receive perfectly except for channels 5.1 and 22.1, which have minor blockiness. This quality of reception is all from the ground floor (indoors) of a multi-story house, with trees and a hill in the way. I was unable to receive the UNC public television channels, and would likely need to purchase another antenna, a signal combiner, and mount the second antenna higher up in the house pointing toward the signal from Chapel Hill (which is coming from roughly the NW direction).
My technophile friend who advised me on this gift purchase recommended the DB8, but I chose this model, as it is still small enough to be a convenient indoor antenna. Perhaps the DB8 would have a better time at picking up the signal from UNC TV.
Customer Review: This is an excellent antenna.
Summary: 5 Stars
Mother-in-law in suburban Tampa doesn't have cable, and with the analog-TV sunset looming we knew she would be in trouble because with the old rabbit ears she was using, she hardly got any analog signals. The few she got were snowy. We got her a new HD LCD TV, and I bought the DB4 antenna to install in her attic.
It is important to know where the TV station broadcast sites are, because while this antenna is "multi-directional" it is still somewhat directional. There are sites on the web [...] that will guide you through locating the orientation of broadcast stations relative to your home. For the most part, broadcast stations are clustered together in one or two locations in a given area. Once we got that all squared away, and fired up the TV with the new antenna, it was evident that this was a big upgrade. 12-16 digital channels (main channels plus sub-channels) came in crystal clear, and the high def channels looked great.
I was impressed enough that I bought another one to install in my own house in suburban Boston, even though I have digital cable with high def. I have the antenna connected to the RF input on the TV, and digital cable box to an HDMI input, and so I can toggle between digital cable and digital over-the-air. This antenna works great - it can pull in over a dozen channels 30 miles from the stations in Florida (flat land), so I give it high marks.
Customer Review: NIce replacement for roof antenna
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this antenna from Amazon and received and installed it in my attic one week ago. Upon opening the package I was a bit surprised at its size - smaller than I was thinking it would be. I was also nicely surprised in that it came assembled. It fit through my attic opening quite easily. Installing the antenna was about as simple as can be. I got the compass readings for the broadcast antennas in the area, almost all within a couple of degrees of each other, and then pointed the antenna towards the center of these readings, tightened the two wings nuts on the c clamp around the J bar mount I also purchased and attached the antenna cable. That's it. The picture quality is better than I got with my roof antenna. I believe the wind blowing the roofing antenna caused the picture distortions I don't get with the DB4. Instructions that came with the antenna were very minimal but a flyer that also was provided notes that it is possible to experience up to 40 percent signal loss if mounted in the attic. Signal loss also will occur if a splitter is used to connect more than one television or if excessive cable length is required. I have two televisions hooked up, live about 32 miles from the antenna farm and have no problems with the antenna at all. I don't have a need for a signal booster. I am happy with this purchase.Customer Review: Well worth the money.
Summary: 5 Stars
This Antenna is great. It is much better than those giant old TV antennas on everyones roof. I put mine on the roof, and you cant even see it from the ground. IT works great to. After the switch to Digital, I first used my amplified rabbit ears, and I got 3 channels. Then I got the DB4. When I got it, I quickly hooked it up to the TV which is in a Basement, and just set it on top of the Entertainment center. I got 11 Channels. Already a big improvement. I took it up to the roof, and laid it down on the roof, and I got 15 channels. Then I got an old Dish network satelite dish mount, and mounted the DB4 Upright, and facing the towers, and I got 24 channels. When I go to [...], it only shows that 18 are available in my area. So im getting 6 more channels than are even listed. Make sure you go to that website to get the right size antenna. If you live in a big city, you might get mixed signals with the DB4, and you will need the DB2. The towers in my area are all from 9-45 miles away. I live in the suburbs. I highly recomend this antenna. I wanted to mention that the picture on this site is kind of deceiving. It makes the think look Huge. It is not Huge. I was surprised at the size when I got it. It is about 2 feet by 1 1/2 feet, And about 5 inches deep. For the Price of one cable bill, we are set!