Philips Rabbit Ears Black Indoor TV Antenna, Dipole and Circular Loop, Tabletop Antenna, Digital, Smart TV Compatible, HDTV Antenna, 4K 1080P VHF UHF, 5Ft Coaxial Cable, SDV8201B/27

We can get 5 free public tv channels with this, which is plenty of entertainment and learning, including cooking, travel, nature, documentary, and kids channels. No need to pay for streaming. We tried other shapes and brands , and no others work. Sits on tv table… no need to mount on wall. This is simple , affordable and works great! Cats chewed the cord of the first one so we reordered. Fast shipping. The best!

This Inexpensive Philips Antenna outperformed a $40 RCA powered antenna I purchased. Yes, it is fragile in the sense you have to be careful with the VHF dipoles. Twisting them 360 degrees will result in them feeling very loose and possible breaking internally. However, this little antenna way outperforms its price point. At first I had this sitting on my tv stand behind the tv. I received all the channels I was supposed to, but it was difficult to dial in Fox 2 without having some pixelation on CBS 62. I remembered seeing a YouTube review of this antenna by Tyler the antenna man where he showed it being folded flat to mount in a window or to a wall. So I did that as you can see in the photo and put it in the window that is next to my tv stand. This totally changed everything. My TCL TV not only measures signal strength, but there is also a signal quality meter. Signal quality is the most important to prevent pixelation and dropouts. I have better than 60% signal quality on every channel with the antenna in the windows and I am about 20 miles from all the towers here in the Detroit area. This is working so good I was able to split the signal with two different 2 way splitters using my existing Dish Network wiring and feed 3 tv’s in 3 different rooms all without a pre-amp or signal booster. Best $12 ever!

Works surprisingly well for a small, simple, indoor antenna. The dipoles bring in my local VHF channels, and the UHF loop does the rest. The TV and this antenna are both in my apartment kitchen, an interior room with no windows. I still manage to pull in over 40 channels. All the broadcast towers are within 20 miles. Some are fewer than 10 miles away. I sometimes have to play with the antenna's location and orientation as atmospheric conditions change; but that's normal for small indoor antennas. I "cut my teeth" on small indoor antennas in the 1960s. I'm aware of their capabilities and limitations; and again, this little Philips antenna does very well for what it is.

I have purchased 5 antennas over the last few years because they never last but this is the best one for my converter box tv needs and it was the cheapest and works best!

I was looking for an inexpensive antenna for residents of my apartment complex, that could pull in the five networks (CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, CW) and their subchannels. I found one with this antenna. The antenna is boxed in one piece; there's no assembly required. It's design allows one to set it on a table, or hang it from a wall. The UHF element (the circular piece) can be moved up and down on a 180-degree arc.. The VHF dipoles can be extended to the desired length, and they can swivel and rotate to the desired position. The coaxial cable is about 5 feet long and is medium grade in quality. It's not detachable from the antenna. It can be extended with another coaxial cable and a connector. The broadcast/transmission towers where I live are in three locations: 2 miles SE, 17 miles SE, and 45 miles W. The antenna got no signal from the towers 45 miles west. In fairness, the Clearstream Eclipse also gets no signal. One of the stations that is two miles away broadcasts on low-VHF (which are channels 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6). This antenna did pick up that channel clearly, once the antenna was placed properly. The dipoles are NOT long enough to receive low VHF very well; I suspect that the station comes in because it's very close to me. To test that, I connected an six-foot RG-6 coaxial (the kind used by cable companies) without an antenna, and it also pulled in the station. A paper clip put into the coaxial jack got the station, but with some pixilation ("noise"). I suspect that the coaxial acted as a dipole. The bottom line is that this probably won't get low-VHF very well if the station is more than 15 miles away. The Clearstream Eclipse also got the low-VHF station, and again, the cable (which is RG-6 quality and which is about 15 feet long) may have been the main reason. I can't say if the antenna gets high-VHF (frequencies 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13), because there are none in the 20-mile radius. Most stations operate on UHF bands/frequencies 14 through 36. Note that your station may read as a VHF station (example: WGN-9 in Chicago, which was on VHF 9 before stations went digital in 2009) but probably broadcasts on a UHF band (WGN broadcasts on UHF 19). The antenna pulled in all area channels broadcasting on UHF very well, with clear pictures, and no pixilation. Your mileage may vary. The Clearstream Eclipse had slightly higher signal numbers (as can be expected from an antenna costing almost four times as much), but the Philips antenna's signal numbers were good. Overall, I would guess that the Philips will pull in UHF-band stations up to 25 miles away, and VHF band stations perhaps 10 to 15 miles away. If you live farther from the towers, you'll probably want a stronger indoor antenna. If those doesn't work, you'll probably need an outdoor antenna. Everybody's situation is different, because reception depends on distance, how high up the antenna is located, the terrain (i.e. hills), and objects in the way (i.e. trees, buildings). It's probably best to purchase from a retailer who allows easy returns (i.e. Amazon, Walmart). To find out what frequency your stations broadcast at, go to rabbitears.info or antennaweb.org .

Seems to work good. I went from 9 channels to 37 ( most in espanol though) lol. The quality control is not so good. Plastic wrap is sandwiched between the antenna base plates. What’s with that?

very pleased to report that the saying, "you get what you pay for" is not always true. this is much much MUCH cheaper than a lot of other "HD digital" antennas and with the rabbit ears, it even looks a bit old-fashioned and like a relic of the 80s - but don't let any of that deter you, this thing is awesome! in my odyssey to cut bills and cords and get free over-the-air television working, i can report that you WANT this kind of old-fashioned antenna! sure, it doesn't look as sleek as the flat, black, monolith like slabs of plastic. but the thing is, those antennas don't work well in capturing VHF. like the loop wire on this antenna, the antenna inside the black slabs are designed to best capture UHF. for VHF, you actually NEED THE RABBIT EARS! so if you're less concerned with aesthetics than actually getting reception, you're going to want something that has these extendable "dipoles". took me a while to figure that out and the marketing of "HD ANTENNAS" really obfuscate what you actually need to get the channels you want. you can rotate all the elements so that they can sit on a shelf or table surface as shown in the pic or you can even rotate them so the whole thing can lie flat. that's how i've configured it and i used double sided tape to stick it to a window facing the transmitters in my area. works like a charm! but the connection coaxial cord is rather short so if your tv is going to be any distance away, you're probably going to need to get a coaxial extender and a long coaxial cable if you don't have one lying around in your junk drawers. also, you might want to invest in a tuner box which provides you with the functionality of showing signal strength which no modern tv i've seen displays and it allows you to manually tune to a channel that the tv tuner's "autoscan" failed to pickup. along with the signal strength bars then, you can actually try to adjust and move the antenna so that you get a channel that you might not otherwise have been able to get. just a few tips from a cord-cutter in 2025. good luck!

I refused to pay a streaming service or similar app to watch college and pro football. A lot of the new designs that you stick flat on a window or look phallic don’t work. This old school rabbit ear system found one channel the first try, six the next and then 12. Several channels are useless, just due to the content, and some channels get that digital lock constantly. But a few of the networks come in clear. I’m not using a booster so that may help but I’m 40 miles away from the nearest transmitter and getting NBC, CBS, FOX and ABC was great news and means lots of football with no subscription. Worth the $15 even if I only picked up on network. Easy to setup.