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Before I got a chance to hook the antenna up to my home T.V.; my son borrowed it for his place of employment- a restaurant. We are LSU Tiger fans. The restaurant installed a TV for the customers to be able to watch the game while they ate. It was a Saturday and the cable guys weren't coming for a few days so we hooked up Flat Antenna. Poof the TV went from snow to crystal clear! It took a minute to hook it up. It's out of sight. It was a great buy.

I have 2 of these. On one TV I pull in 22 stations. I like the design - I can prop it up between the window and the mini blinds. On a second TV at the other end of the house, it's not any better than rabbit ears were. But that TV is too far from the window to put it behind the blinds, so maybe that's why the reception is not as good.

Style-wise you could not ask for more. It's flat. It fits into any kind of space since it is so slender. All one could ask for is a variety of colors but this one could rattle-can quite easily. There's nothing to damage!

How it works: If you have a signal that can be picked up, it picks it up. Digital signals are either there to be received or they are not. An outdoor antenna with a rotor will outperform this unit but if you live in an apartment like I do and don't have the capability to put up a high end outdoor antenna setup, then this unit will give you all the performance you need at a low price. More expensive indoor units have internal rotators in some cases so you do have to place the antenna in it's best position manually but considering that doing so will save you $20 to $40, why not?

I have HDTV on cable and use an HDMI cable to hook up the cable tuner to the HDTV, which left the cable/antenna jack unused and figured why not have a backup signal source in place for when the cable goes out? Your reasons for getting an indoor-use antenna may be different than mine but if an indoor antenna is what you need, this one will do the job.

I was really expecting this antenna to perform better than those rabbit ears ones but it doesn't. Is a pain in the neck, very low potency, I just got 22 channels after many turnings and placing, I bought my mom a RCA rabbit ears one and she got 24 in the first try. Disappointed.

I have a set of 3 year old rabbit ears that I thought were not good enough to get HDTV signals until I bought this antenna. Wow, this thing reduced my channel count down to 4 channels in all! Maybe it is because of where I live in respect to the signals? So I returned it and went back to my rabbit ears.