Customer Reviews

Philips SDV2730/27 HDTV/UHF/VHF/FM Digital Indoor TV Antenna

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A nice waste of your $30. I have a $10 pair of rabbit ears that picks up better than this piece of garbage. I sat there fiddling with the antennas and the gain control while watching the signal strength meters, and nothing ever seemed to change no matter what I fiddled with. Save your money on this waste.

Amazing, the Philips SDV2750/27 is a superb antenna for only $5 more than this one. I always wondered, why a company that can make a great product still bother to make a garbage for few dollars less? If someone knows the answer, please enlighten me.

I needed an amplified VHF/UHF antenna for my small HDTV I have in the kitchen. I wanted something better than the cheap, non-amplified 'rabbit ears' unit I had. Upon hooking up the Philips, I quickly discovered that reception was actually WORSE than with the basic 'rabbit ears' antenna! It didn't matter how much I turned the unit or adjusted the telescoping VHF antennas, I just couldn't pull in as many analog and digital channels, and many stations came in worse, or not at all! Moreover, there is no on/off switch on this cheap unit, which wastes electricity AND poses a 'fire hazard' if the unit overheats! Come on Philips... I see this is a new unit that reached the marketplace recently... don't you people have any foresight or intelligence to release a product that actually WORKS??!! STAY AWAY from this useless antenna! I'm returning mine to the store today.

Well after reading all the reviews I was not expecting much from this antenna. I will admit I bought it from Sears on closeout for only $6.97 so thought I could not go to far wrong. I had also recently acquired a small 7" Haier TV with a whip antenna that was picking up only 1 of the 15 stations the web sites were saying I should receive well in my zip. Well I plugged in this Philips SDV2730/27, set it on a window sill, and did the auto scan; WOW logged 25 stations on the first try. Slightly different result than others have gotten so felt it worth a good review.

Its a cheap product and I got what I paid for. I get NO signal with it.

The reviews of this indoor antenna are always interesting to read, especially the negative ones. It would seem many owners of said Philips antenna don't understand the nature of TV VHF/UHF signals!For one, they are short range "line-of-sight" signals like your Cell Phone, unlike Short Wave signals, with signal strength markable fading on average past 30 miles or less. So, said antenna is best placed by a window as mine is and, at least ground level and not below if for a basement level TV. By the patio door glass area sitting on the carpet, my unit receives 22 channels sharp as a tack and I am 12 miles from the TV transmitters surrounded by city.I also found not to extend the rabbit ears all the way but only 4 sections also improved the signal strength.
The bottom line, get this unit and any other indoor TV antenna away from your TV which, is a mini-transmitter in it's own right giving off short range "RFI" and can interfere with any indoor antenna's ability to pick up those "line-of-sight" TV signals and, get it as close to a window or non metal exterior wall. One can add an extention cable to the indoor antennas short cable if needed and, watch your channel scan numbers and signal strengh vastly improve as well as the reviews. :-)

12/8/09 I picked a $19 Philips unit from [...] and only got a handfull of stations, depending on which direction I pointed the unit, how far apart the extendable antennas were, how high I held the unit in the room, etc. I could bring in different stations based on the previous sentence, sacrificing some for others. However, some local affiliates I could hardly, if at all, bring in, even though they were ranked as being easier to receive according to [...].
So, I figured I would try an amplified unit, again from Philips(SDV2730/27). As previous users stated, no matter how much amplification I tried or which direction I aimed, etc., I saw NO improvment and even found the amplification made the stations I DID receive worse. On top of all this I paid $32 at [...]. At least it is cheaper at Amazon, but even if it were free, total waste of time, period. So, unless you live practically on top of your local station's transmitters, forget it! I live in Brunswick, OH and all major transmitters are less than 20 miles from me. Guess I will just have to plan on an outdoor unit if I decide to keep using over-the-air reception. (recently dropped cable co.) For now I guess I will go get the cheapest vhf/uhf antenna I can.

I bought this antenna on sale at Target but it was no bargain. I live in a location where we got good reception for analog TV for most all channels and at least OK for others, but with this antenna, I can't get several local channels no matter how I manipulate it. The reception will be good for a certain channel one day, or part of the day and poor or nonexistent later. The bracket to make it stand up keeps falling off. One of the rabbit ears broke twice and the other is bent just trying to manipulate it to get it to work - not rough usage. Also, like another reviewer said, it is ON all the time, wasting electricity. I am on AMAZON right now shopping for a replacement.

I can't believe how poorly this works. I bought it before there were any reviews - my mistake. It simply doesn't work. No matter how much we adjust or move the antenna, it doesn't pull a signal. The old rabbit ears we had were much better - and cost about 1/3 the price of this. I was considering purchasing a new Philips LCD tv, but after my experience with this, I will rethink that. This experience makes me really question the quality of Philips products.

Much better than nothing. I live in rural area and works on strong stations. Takes repeated adjustments even though all the stations I can get come from a group of tower location in same direction. Same TV with different amplified antennas get more stations with less adjusting. Essy to set up and good sized unit for a small room. Take it and try it - if cheap or someone gives it to you. There are better buys and some older antennas may work better than you think. PS I have another Philips antenna which is actually my favorite.