August Portable Freeview HD TV Aerial - DTA180 - Powerful Mini Antenna with Magnetic Base for Kitchen/Truck/Bedroom Portable Television

I took delivery of this tiny aerial 10mins ago and am completely blown away. My current aerial is an all singing, all dancing expensive signal boosted device the size of a large tablet however, it only picked up 60 channels, none of which in were HD and with SD pictures generally of poor quality. I actually bought this August aerial because I needed to spend an extra few quid for free delivery of another item and it had decent reviews. I had just bought a new TV for the spare room and thought I'd give it a go feeling I had nothing to lose given the 60 crappy channels I was getting. I initially stuck it in to a nearby radiator, rescanned and my channel count immediately jumped to 148, including all available Freeview HD channels. I couldn't really leave it on the radiator because of the location and when I moved it, picture quality did get a bit patchy but I discovered the rear of the TV is magnetic so stuck it there and picture quality was immediately restored. So now I have loads of channels, all good quality and the aerial is completely hidden behind the TV. I've no idea how this tiny thing does what it does but it does it bloody well!

I recently moved and wanted to cut back the cost of many things.My house needs a new aerial, properly done but the cost is a little high at this time.I bought this to put me on for the time being so I would at least have Freeview.Actually astounded that I get a clearer and less scratchy picture with this aerial than the professionally installed one in the last house.Honestly for the price of it and the size it does that good a job I bought three more for the house. Works perfect on every TV.So rather than paying £120-£150 for a new aerial install, I spent £15 for these and get the HD channels too.Only negative is when storm Ophelia hit there was signal disruption but I would expect that with any aerial.Seriously 5 stars

Can't believe that I have probably spent a couple of hundred quid trying to find an aerial that works on my narrowboat. Nothing has worked properly but this little job is fantastic. I stuck it on the roof and and retuned the television. I now have every channel and a perfect picture. Great buy !!!!

Well it works marginally better than the large piece of copper wire I used to have. But strangely, it receives less digital channels than the bit of wire did, but the ones it does get are better quality - no break-up at all.But things you need to know. The description claims the aerial is amplified - its obviously isn't and this is simply misleading and false. Just because an aerial has 1db of gain does not mean anything is amplified at all, so this is a very disappointing fake claim and something the company need to address immediately.As for the magnetic base? its probably the weakest magnet every to have been manufactured. the weight of cable pulls it of anything its mounted on - so don't even consider it magnetic or amplified. Other than the fake claims of being amplifier and useless magnet - it's ok.

Easy to install like any aerial but only picks up BBC1 & 2 ITV, Ch4 and 5 but thats it! can't get any of the other free channels even though its a freeview TV, so really a waste of money to us. We tried it mounted on the radiator, the dog crate and nothing, so had to put it high up on top of the cupboards just to get the basic channels mentioned above.