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 Does not perform well. May 31, 2010
Martin Politick (Montreal)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This powered antenna only performs slightly better then regular cheap rabbit hears.
If you observe the product, in the middle, there is a cheap extensible antenna that needs to stick out.
In the picture it is retracted, so if your plan is not to have one of those, don't buy the product.
The blue LED light is disturbingly bright at night. We have it in our bedroom and I had to put a sticker on it.
 Good for digital TV May 22, 2010
J. Smith (Oregon)
Yes, I am cheap particularly about television and decided long ago I wasn't wasting money purchasing it. Despite living in the woods in rural Oregon and under a hillside, I am able to receive ABC, NBC, and two PBS stations using indoor rabbit ears with a converter box. And that's enough news and TV entertainment for me. Digital TV has altered reception, however. A week or so ago, about 15 minutes before the Preakness Horse Race was to begin, my NBC TV reception died. Intent on seeing the race and after fooling with the rabbit ears antenna for about 10 minutes, I hauled my box TV to four different locations in the house and back again with a broken bone in my foot, no less, so you know how desperate I was to reestablish reception. But no luck. I wanted to watch that two minute horse race and, of course, I didn't. The local NBC station disappeared from my set for days. I did some internet shopping, investigating antennas designed for digital reception, but with 3 stars, I wasn't about to order this antenna by mail. A few days later, however, I found the antenna at the local Bimart store for under $30 so decided to give it a try. I could easily take it back if it didn't work out. The antenna was easy to set-up... well, after I got it right side up, the little walls notched together properly, and plugged in. With its single antenna placed at the window, NBC reappeared at last and all other channels came in as well. I've had for five days, now, have lost no reception and have not needed to reposition the antenna at all -- a frustrating activity with the rabbit ears and almost always necessary in the past when I changed stations. The only thing I don't like is the little blue light signaling power going to the antenna. I have the antenna plugged into an power strip and now turn the strip off each night thereby turning off the annoying light.
Succesful April 6, 2010
L. D. Cruz (Reynosa, Mexico)
This was actually requested from a friend who lives in Mexico City so it must be really really good.
 OK, but there are better, cheaper ones. March 13, 2010
John S. Socha (Spring Grove, MN, US)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I used this antenna for reception from about 35 miles from the source. It worked, but did require repositioning. Then I bought an non-powered Artec AN1 for use with a laptop (with a TV card) and decided to try it on my TV out of curiosity. It outperformed the GE hands-down. It pulled in more stations and required much less repositioning. The Artec uses no power and looks a bit like a plastic fly swatter. Check one out before you buy this unit. It is less money, smaller, and worked better for me.
Strong enough to power 3 TV's in different rooms February 7, 2010
Ed Hong (Irvine, CA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My parents were spending $80/month for cable tv service just to get korean channels. So I told them to go to the store and get an indoor antenna and digital converter box. The sales rep sold them 3 each of this GE 24775 indoor antenna and a RCA converter box for all the rooms they wanted TV in. Well the first thing I did when I went to do the install was try the setup on a TV to make sure it works. Sure enough, it found 80+ channels and the quality was quite good. More surprisingly, they now had more Korean channels then before when they were paying $80+ for cable.
Then the geek in me wanted to see if I could network the antenna signal throughout the house by plugging it into the main hub. Their house is fairly new so it is wired for internet and tv in all rooms which is routed to one central location in the house. To my surprise, one of these GE 24775 antennas were strong enough to get great signal and quality on 3 tv's at the same time, all in different rooms of a two story, 3100sq.ft house. Wow! I will point out however that I had an amplified cable splitter (one-to-three) so that may have increased signal enough to be split so far. The amplified splitters are $10-$20 at most so that's an easy investment to make.
Each TV would still need the converter box next to the TV to change channels, but luckily 2 out of the 3 tv's my parents have are fairly new so they didn't need the converter boxes. So 2 antennas and 2 receivers would go right back to the store for a return saving them over $100.
The moral of the story is that this antenna signal is quite strong in our geographic location (even inside a 2-story house closet) and with a little extra know-how and time, you can save some money while getting what you want accomplished. I'm sure there are a lot of houses out there that are told to buy unnecessary equipment when there is a simpler solution, like what I've described above!
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