Customer Ratings & Reviews

Best Buy associate recommended this antenna and it was improvement over what I had. It is amplified so it brings in a couple of stations I did not get before. Cable was long enough to put antenna in window. And at around $30, a good value. Real solution is to mount outside antenna on roof. Trying to ditch cable and go with antenna TV and some type of streaming TV like Hulu or Sling.

This as a Complete and Total SURPRISE to me that this antenna works SO WELL!!! Once I got it hooked up, ( JUST1 CABLE!!!) And got it tuned, EVERY CHANNEL I GOT WAS PICTURE PERFECT, and CLEAR AS A BELL!!! I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS ONE!!! If I could get ESPN and my Chicago Sports on it, I'd disconnect my DirecTV!!!

I recently moved to an area that had all the major network towers within 25 miles and was sick of paying for cable. I must have tried every indoor antenna Best Buy had and came to the conclusion that if you’re less than 20 or so miles of the tower these antennae all work the same. I got the same reception from this, the flat wall hanging antenna, and the most expensive indoor antenna Best Buy carries. Use one of the tower locating apps or websites to determine how far out you are and buy accordingly, you may find $$$ isn't the determining factor with indoor antennas. (Hint, they work better in a window)

I purchased the antenna in order to disconnect my cable TV. So far it works good Pice wise and quality wise. Only problem is in bad weather a couple of channels are not working. I think it is TV station problem due to weak signal. I recommend as I was recommended by a Bestbuy sales associate.

RCA - Amplified Indoor HDTV Antenna is great to get basic local channels, along with some other channels (about 50 total) for free. To me it is a good deal. Pay for the antenna once, and get free channels.

I tried this one, the RCA Flat, Omni-directional, amplified antenna, and another brand (no amplification) with this unit performing the best out of the 3. Unfortunately, in the apartment where I was staying, I've been told no indoor antenna will work great but this one was the best. I'm giving it 4-stars and 'recommending it' because my issues with it were more a function of my location, than the RCA antenna. Best Buy was great and very patient with me as I went through the testing.

Was concerned that indoor antenna in my neighborhood would not work. Surprised to find i could get the majority of channels. Picture is very clear since not compressed like cable. One draw back...took some time to find right angles for dipoles. Reminded me of the good, old days.

I bought this antenna to replace a flat panel one. With this one being powered, I am picking up 50 more channels. I was unable to watch most local channels with my other one. This one gets me all local channels abc, nbc, fox, cbs. I do have this antenna inside behind my tv.

This antenna works good for what I need. gets a few pixels now and then, but only briefly (seconds). Doesn't gets quite a few channels which is fine for what I need (spare tv, hardly use) Saved me money. about $30 as apposed to $6 a month and not using it.

The amplified TV antenna works pretty good. We live 50 miles from the broadcast area and can bring in most channels. This antenna is also in a basement so we might be having some trouble getting signal through the cement block wall. Works better than regular rabbit ears.

We needed to set up a TV in a room that we do not have a comcast cable. Plus it was a good opportunity to check out "cutting the cord." We are lucky since we have a straight shot of the TV repeaters . We were looking at a more expensive antenna, but got a great recommendation from the Best Buy sales. He saved a lot of money and this antenna works great. We have a clear picture with no interferrence when we are near the antenna. The set up was easy and straight forward. Took maybe 5 minutes and another hour or so finding the right spot to have the antenna. We are very happy, glad we saved some money, not sure we are going to cut the cord. Have a Roku on that TV also. But we need ESPN for college football. I would recommend this antenna.

I live many miles from the broadcast towers for the major networks (and even the minor ones). A previously purchased unamplified antenna did a poor job in retrieving these signals, resulting in few available channels and some pixelation in the ones I did receive. This amplified antenna increased the number of available channels three-fold. You'd be surprised how many 'free' DTV stations are broadcasting out there. From sporting events (in HD, BTW) to movie channels, this unit brings them in with surprising clarity. Feel free to drop your expensive cable bill and invest in something that works.

For me, in Utica/New Hartford, NY, this antenna received about 5-7 channels well enough to tolerate watching. This is better than the unamplified Insignia in my other review. However, I need to either invest in a rooftop antenna, or use an omnidirectional model.

The product was easy to set up and access via the tv menu. The positioning of the unit affects the reception and it is a little difficult to get the rabbit ears adjusted properly. Once you have finioshet the adjustments, it works fine. It is good for the price.

Antenna provides a clear HD picture and is small in size. Easy to hook up. Is an amplified antenna so you do have to plug in to outlet in addition to hooking up to antenna input on the TV.

We hooked this up to my mother-in-law's TV to see what kind of stations she could pick up. Turns out the antenna allowed us to tune over 50 channels. She was very pleased with the picture quality the antenna provided. The product worked as described.

With cable prices skyrocketing, and with no end in sight, I wanted to get a good, if not great alternative to pricey cable TV, and decided to go with an Indoor antenna. I went with a non-powered model from RCA, which was similar to the one sold on TV infomercial, which wasn't AC powered, though. Needless to say, that particular model failed to get hardly any channels, as it got only about 10 over-the-air stations, and not very well, either. I returned that ineffective model to Best Buy, and got another RCA unit, but this particular unit was with Rabbit Ears and is AC powered. I am glad that I did, because this Rabbit-Ear AC powered version is clearly better, as it picks up ALL the local over-the-air stations, and I now get about 22 stations, which most of them are HD, and they come in very well, despite me living in a mountainous area with many trees to block the signal. For the many and price, this Rabbit-Ears AC-powered version from RCA, is substantially better than the non-AC version, and best of all, my reception is really good, and I do NOT have to pay for Comcast Cable any longer! If you are looking for a means to get RID of Comcast and their exorbitantly high prices, horrific customer service, and analog reception, then this is the best way to go.

I wanted to use this for several weeks to see if the performance is consistent. I bought this particular antenna because it was the mid-range option of the available choices and had 40 mile range vs. 25-30 miles on the cheaper options. I live a little farther out from the city center. I was excited to see that I get 23 digital channels during programming when I first set this up. Some of those channels broadcast old shows or are infomercial channels. The important thing is I get all the major broadcast TV channels like ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, FOX and CW. All the channels except FOX and CW work without raising the antenna "ears". I just leave them up for convenience. Most channels come in clear. However the last couple of weeks have been very windy, sometimes stormy and there is a small interruption in signal strength on some channels. Annoying, but mostly still watchable. I usually just watch local news and awards shows live and watch other shows at a convenient time through my streaming media player. Overall works well for my purposes. I just wish it didn't take so much space and stick out so much.

As far as rabbit ears go this is a solid HDTV antenna. You need some space to extend the antennae to maximize reception. Thus far we've been able to pull in most of the major local channels. As we live on the fringe of a major city, we noticed that we aren't able to pull in CBS. Apparently the range of that network affiliate's broadcast tower is limited by the current bandwidth they use (VHF). We live 50 miles from that tower. This leads us to believe that this little guy won't do folks much good if they live further away from a broadcast antenna. Also, we noticed that reception is much better in front of a window facing south towards the city then behind a wall.

Because we, periodically, have a second flat panel TV in the house, and it's not easy to connect to my roof antenna, I thought I'd try this out to see if I could improve reception. It's better than not having an antenna, but digital TV signals are much fussier to receive than the old analog signals used to be, plus many of the local stations, with some exceptions, have moved the to UHF band. The reception has improved, but the antenna is fussy regarding placement. They do suggest placing it near a window, but that's not an option for us. That might make some difference, but I don't really know how much. The bottom line is the best reception for over-the-air signals will still be an outside antenna, preferably with a rotator. For the cost though, this does yield some improvement, and that's not all bad.