Indoor TV Antennas Compared: Cheap vs Expensive

Great video! Thanks for actually testing out these antennas. I can't stand when websites (or YouTubers) claim certain antennas are the best with no data to back it up.

Thanks! You mentioned that a signal amplifier can cause worse reception. I live 26 miles from my tv broadcast tower. By unplugging the amplifier I went from 34 stations to 72 and the quality of the picture improved immensely!

I heard james got married to a antenna installer, the wedding was average, but the reception was excellent !

I only get 18 channels in my backwood area. But luckily one of them plays that 70s show every night from beginning to end then it starts over

15:57 the movie is called "Solarbabies" and it's from 1986. Classic cheesy 80s movie.

Your reaction to the antenna falling from the window was priceless! Perfect timing! I laughed out loud!! Keep up the good work buddy.

Remember those monster cable ads, where they tried to convince you that you needed their $200 hdmi cables, rather than the regular $6 ones?

First time watching your channel. Really enjoyed the dialogue between you and the kids. Good content

The dessert Tron movie is called "Solarbabies" from 1986. It's freaky weird, you should watch it as a family to show your kids what the 80's were like.

Hi James, I just wanted to say you and your daughter pair so well together in videos she has such a great personality and your humor is always welcome.

Nice video. I had the same experience with amplified attenaes and those plug in amplifiers. They made reception worse. Went through about 8 attenaes. The flat ones do need a window otherwise they are crap. I wasnt going to relocate my tv by a window. The only attenae that actually worked very well in my situation was the Clearstream 2 max indoor outdoor attenae. Its rather big and its $70 but it works. The higher the better. Using it inside gives me 36 channels and the one in the attic 48. The flat ones gave me 5 to 7 channels. Rabbit ear type just as bad. It's all about where you can mount it in your tv space.

The Star Trek episode was "Balance of Terror" with Mark Leonard who later became Spocks father in next generation. Great episode.

The movie is "Solarbabies"! I didn't have many channels growing up and this was in the approved movie list for the house.

You shouldn’t use the amplifier to scan for channels, but you can use it once the scan is complete to boost the signal. That will increase your “usable channels” metric. Good video.

It's awesome seeing a family doing stuff together and enjoying each other's company. No to mention the good info/review. Job well done guys! ^_^

James always love your reviews, and love the fact your good family life spills into the videos . Keep up the good work good sir

You work your butt off on these reviews. Lots of time and effort. Good job!

Another great review, thank you. Loved the interaction between all of you, so fun to watch.

We have a cheap flat (indoor) antenna similar to the larger one mounted on the outside of our house with push pins and hooked up to our old coax cable line into the house that feeds all 5 of our TV’s with crystal clear pictures on each tv! One cheap antenna = 5 TV’s 👍🏼

I've been cable free since 2010, and I have both a rooftop OTA antenna for the main living room TV, and a powered indoor one similar to the Amazon one you guys tested for a bedroom TV (I wasn't able to connect it to my main rooftop antenna for various reasons). My rooftop antenna (which is an un-powered Channel Master 4221) kills it when it comes to the amount of channels in can pick up, but then again, it doesn't have to deal with thick walls, and it's pointed in the general direction of TV transmission towers I wanted to catch. It's also placed high on the roof, which is at least 15' higher than the inside powered antenna. In the OTA (over the air) TV channel world, height and line of sight is your friend.