What's The Best Indoor Antena For My Hd Tv?

[West]

Hi all,

By now, everybody should have a HD TV. I'm having a little issue with the reception for my HD.

I've got a cheap indoor antena ($5) for now, it does an excellent job but it has got it's moments. Sometime i get really good reception and just when my fav TV show is on, reception died out. If i walk pass the TV, reception die. This is a major piss off and the LCD is too expensive to get smash up so i had to keep my cool by cuddling it, talk nicely to it, touch it softly..............almost kiss it AND STILL.

So, i'm now looking for a good indoor antena, i've heard of ones that has its power and everything. I did my reserach and found a few so i'm a little confuse of which to get. Just wondering if you guys has one and what's your experience with it? How much did you buy it and where?

Thanks

[pieisnice]

Why not get a Digital Topbox ?

[Sklyn]

^^^^+1^^^^^

You can afford a new HD TV but not to put an antena on the roof?????

come now, if everyone should have HD, they should also have an antena on the roof!!!!

[West]

Its has built in HD.

We've got a roof antena but there isn't a line that runs to my room and i can't be ass doing it.

[krzysiu]

Its has built in HD.

We've got a roof antena but there isn't a line that runs to my room and i can't be ass doing it.

Lol westy, if you want good reception, make a line go to your room. Will take a whole hour if you know what your doing.

[GTR_STEALTH]

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/yt-EWQhlmJTM...r_hdtv_antenna/

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/yt-6wT7fIfHd...hd_antenna_3_0/

Good luck lol

[(B1) MR_fanny]

is there a diy to do this. im in the same boat..ha. i want my channel 31..lol

[saff_cossie]

Move out from your parents house and rent somewhere that you can put it in the lounge room!

[West]

Move out from your parents house and rent somewhere that you can put it in the lounge room!

Sounds good but its my house .

[paulr33]

high def built in tuners into the TV and in door attennas usually suck dogs balls

they are cheap units with low power gain so the signal is poor

try a $5 pair of rabbit ears (no joke) and if its poo then get a high def set top box & rabbit ears

that will give you much better results with even a crap pair of rabbit ears

a high def set top box will be $100 ish

[krzysiu]

How do they suck Paul? I don't see the point of buying an external HD tuner if your tv already has one inbuilt? I have 2 lcd's both with inbuilt HD tuners and they work fine.

[paulr33]

what sort of attena do you have

if you have an external roof attena its fine

but an indoor craptastic attena it wont have the pickup

west wanted a good indoor attena for his built in tuner

there arent any - thats the problem

[krzysiu]

hmm makes sense. Yeah there aren't any good ones. If you want proper digital reception the only option is to run it to the roof antenna.

[ylwgtr2]

try this one on for size

Edited June 27, 2008 by ylwgtr2

[West]

try this one on for size

I almost didnt regconise you Troy.

[toddlls]

There are various antennas on the market that have a dial to fine tune the reception, rabbit ears will work but will need tweeking via moving the ears the 4 points of the pole N/S/E/W and varying the heights of each and angle-signal moves throughout the day due to tv companies increase signal power for the signal drain when everyone is watching just like fm radio, I think vivitar do a dial adjustable antenna for indoor use, Go to Good Guys or Dick Smith and have a look. Another thing is dont use too many joiners and keep antenna away from power points and other power/speaker wires as they will pick up magnetic fields and create signal noise which will come through the picture

[(B1) MR_fanny]

maybe i should wire it up to the car port frame or is that too Mcguyver!...ha

what do you guys think? I went through 2 of those fancy adjustable indoor antennas at dick smith with signal boosters and seperate power supply but they all sucked. In the end i just swapped it over for a 5buck rabbit ears which still isnt the best but was better than the other 2.

how does one run a secont antenna cable from the roof antenna?

[Stagea_Neo]

I use a leadtek usb tuner/dongle with my laptop, perfect reception as long as the aerial is close to a window.

I just run an aerial extension cable. (good quality shielded coax not cheap $3.95 cable from kmart)

All i need is the hd aerial that came with it, see the pic i've downloaded from the website.

Mine isnt this exact one, but flat and square about 3cm * 3cm and 0.5cm thick.

I've tested with rabbit ear aerial, they also work fine as long as close to a window.

Edited June 28, 2008 by Stagea_Neo

[West]

Got off my lazy ass and run another line to my room, what can i say, YOU BEAUTY. I now got more stations, not afraid of walking pass close to the TV anymore ahaha.

[Sklyn]

YAY WOO!!!! **The crowd goes wild****

good stuff, got some heavy watching coming up now!!!