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For Over The Air TV, Get An Amplified Antenna...
⁃ before buying this TV to use for (Over The Air) OTA TV viewing, go to [...] or dtv.gov/maps to see what channels you get in your zip code area. OTA TV is area/region specific and signals for various TV stations vary from area to area. If your area has poor reception on the channels you are looking for, just get cable. This has nothing to do with the TV.
⁃ I purchased it for OTA TV. You can use it in other ways such as viewing video through the AV cables or via USB. It also has a SD card slot. I don't see why it wouldn't work with the latest stream sticks such as Roku, Chromecast 1st generation, Amazon fire stick and so on...
⁃ As a TV, it is excellent, provides high definition content and will deliver the signal that is sent to it by the antenna, hence the need to research on your available channels in your area.
⁃ The 'high power antenna' that they provide in the package is useless if you want to use it to get OTA channels. You have to buy another antenna. I purchased the' 1byone' antenna which had good reviews and is powered/amplified. Using any antenna without an amplifier will get you few channels if any.
⁃ Setup is relatively easy. It comes with a set of manuals in different languages, a stand with a bottom for stability, 2 sets of 'rabbit ears' antennas (they don't work, get a separate amplified antenna) AV cables and a remote control.
⁃ The remote control works well as it should in close proximity.
⁃ The tv has a jack for earphones. The earphones function works well but remember that the sound you will get for OTA TV will depend on how good your signal is. So, if the channel has noise or distortion, then you shall hear it in your earphones (and in the external speakers of course.
⁃ The external speakers are decent, alright for this size of TV, not Dolby surround spectacular. If you want good quality sound just get external speakers and use the earphones/headphones 3.5 mm Jack.
⁃ When the reception is good, the picture quality is very good, high definition like. For the price and size, you can't complain about the picture quality.
⁃ However, when the signal is poor/intermittent, the picture gets stuck on screen, has pixelation, disappears and you get a blank screen and so on and forth. It can be very frustrating.
⁃ Once connected to the amplified antenna, it searches for the stations quickly and quite well. However, this is obviously linked to the antenna and not the TV itself.
⁃ It has a AC/DC volt outlet charger, so you can charge it to a socket. It also comes with a car (cigarette lighter) charger, so you can plug it into your round car power socket.
⁃ It has decent battery time when fully charged, about 2 hours. I would say it takes about 1 hour to fully charge.
The pictures shown look a bit 'blurred' but that is the phone camera, not the actual picture. The actual picture is amazing!
December 2016 · Electronics · verified purchase