Terk Technology HDTVi VHF UHF HDTV Indoor Antenna
The age of digital TV is here. It’s no longer a dream of the future. With it, over time, more TV stations will be broadcasting HDTV signals. If you want excellent over-the-air television reception, this TERK HD-TVi Indoor HDTV Antenna is the accessory you need now.TERK HD-TVi — The acknowledged leader in antenna technology has just introduced their first-ever Indoor HDTV Antenna. The high performance HDTVi is the only indoor antenna that receives both UHF and VHF signals (channels 2 – 69), providing reception of all local HDTV broadcasts.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Flawless HD Reception, including VHF
I’ve been watching HD over-the-air for a couple of years now. Until buying this antenna a month ago or so, I had a very similar UHF-only antenna. In my area, one of the major stations is VHF, which I hadn’t properly considered when we first made the switch to over-the-air. However, for whatever reason, while the reception of the analog version of that station was pretty poor, the HD version seemed to come in fine.
Unfortunately, over the next couple of years, the HD reception gradually degraded to the point that it was gone completely this summer. I have no idea why this happened, but I knew that I didn’t have a VHF antenna. With the fall TV season getting started — and more importantly, Dallas Cowboys on FOX (the station in question) — I decided it was time to take action.
Because I already had a directional UHF antenna, installing the new Terk VHF/UHF antenna was as simple as could be. I extended the rabbit ears at in an appropriate V shape and just like that, reception was good again.
3 Stars Just Fair with hidden annoyances
My original Terk HD-TVS broke after 2 years of great reception and I decided to try out the cheaper, smaller, indoor Terk HDTVi as its replacement.
It has been mediocre at best. I can only pick up 75% of channels with this antenna and it is placed right at a window facing the same direction as my previous Terk hd-tvs.
PROS
- easy to use
- easy to put together
- made of high quality materials
- looks nice with brushed aluminum
CONS
- Large footprint: no pictures tell you that to get any decent reception at all you need to extend its rabbit ear antennas out as well, this really takes a lot more space with both rabbit ears extended 3-4ft in each direction and becomes an eye soar that can’t be hidden
- Has a built in coax cable(only 5ft long) to plug into your tv that cannot be exchanged or replaced. My hdtv is mounted on the wall and already has a 12 ft coax cable out that I was hoping to use directly into my antenna. Not possible without an adapter now. I can’t belive that a short built in cable would be included that can’t be replaced! It really limits where you can put this at.
- The base of the antenna is very unstable. Easily knocked over if just touched.
- Reception is just ok in comparison to my terk hd-tvs. I get 75% of the channels that I use to and the pictures comes in out much more frequently as I don’t think the signal is quite as strong.
Overall, this antenna is just going to be a temporary solution until my Terk HD-TVS can be fixed. I would not recommend to others unless you live extremely close the the towers and don’t need to extend the rabbit ears of this antenna out taking up precious space.
4 Stars Terk HDTV Indoor Antenna
Does a great job of pulling in stations, works even better in the attic. Only problem is the unit topples over to easy, need to redesigned stand/base of unit.
5 Stars tv antenna
i bought terk tv antenna form j&r world item got here quickly works fine i appreciate it guys thanks again
4 Stars Just what we needed
This Turk HDTVi antenna has been working very well for us. We live in the country more than 25 miles from the cluster of big city TV towers. We have a roof antenna for two TVs but had another TV that needed an upgraded indoor antenna. We like this HDTVi because it’s easy to hook up, easy to know where to aim it for best reception (point the narrow end in the direction of the TV towers), it has a reasonable price and we are getting a beautiful picture. Also, reading all of the reviews from others about the different antennas was very helpful in making our selection.
