Customer Reviews

Philips SDV2790/27 UHF/VHF/FM/HDTV/ Indoor TV Antenna

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For almost two years, I have been watchibng DTV with an indoor Terk figure 8 type and then a 4-stage homebrew antenna that worked very well except on windy days and during bad wearher.

I purchased this antanna and am pleasantly surprized. I do not use the amplifier and if I turn the gain up too high, I lose all channels. It sits up high on an entertainment center and the VHF rods face forward and can be put in many positions but I have no ceiling room to have them straight up. It is very directioal and I use the signal strength meter of my DTV converter to find tha position where I get the most signal and hardly have to turn the antenna for the 20 stations I can receive. I am within 25 miles of the stations but terrain, height and so many other factors make it impossible to say if it will work as well for you as it did for me.

Antenna has good gain. I can receive weak signals. Works as It should.
Don't forget that this antenna is directional. It must be directed to broadcast source.
There was no manual in the box, but you can download it from Philips site.
Antennaweb dot org page can help you to predict how much channels you can expect to receive and where you need to direct antenna.

I am not going to comment on the products TV performance but judging by its FM performance, it should be pretty significant.

This is, as others have pointed out, highly directional. That obviously means that stations will sound like trash if you don't take the 5 seconds to point it right. Even with a lazy bone it does pull in a lot of stations very clear (read stereo lock with excellent S/N)

The first impression I had was that it looked bigger than in the picture advertised.
My second disapointment was the use of a 120V instead of 220v.
But overall product is good

no good don,t waste your money!!!! i got more channels on a $5.00 set off rabbit ears junk

It Came with a superb shock proof and drop proof air packets packing (no manual was found). (btw, antenna needs a digital converter OR a tv which has digital converter within itself !). This is an antenna with amplifier. I just counted the number of clear channels seen when this is in use verses while the ordinary small antenna (that came along with digital converter - without an amplifier) is in use. I got only 2 channels extra while I used this antenna. I do not consider this antenna as significant at all- Even after using the knob for maximum gain setting. The small sized antenna, which has 2 telescopic antennas and a ring sort of thing in between them occupied very less space. Could fit neatly behind TV. Where as this unit is very big!! Did not fit behind my tv. Besides, performance is not as great as it has been projected.

So, over all, cost effectiveness is low. It does the same job as that of a small antenna....It occupies more space too.

I live 22 miles LOS from the towers and it pulls in all stations at 100%. It is a fair improvement, but not huge, over a typical rabbit ears and uhf loop antenna. The design is identical to the now discontinued Silver Sensor and Terk HDTVa/i antennas, except that this is slightly more aesthetic (if you can call it that) in appereance.
One thing to keep in mind is that these antennas are very directional and they need to be positioned optimally to get the best signal.

I got this antenna for my HDTV looking at the 10dB gain it provided. But as it turns out it does nothing. Its a gimmick. With(out) the gain it gives me more channels just my internal TV antenna. The signal strengths I get are between 3 to 4 bars out of 7 and without the antenna I used to get 3 bars. A much better product is the Antennas Direct DB2 Multi Directional HDTV Antenna ([...]). It does not provide any gain but it gave me strong, reliable and consistent signal strengths of 4-5 bars. The DB2 is a superior product than this one. Thanks.