Antennas Direct 8-Port TV Antenna Distribution Amplifier, Output to 8 Televisions, CATV Systems, 4K 8K Ready – w/Power Supply, Coaxial Cable (Silver)

I attached quad shield coax cable to a roof mounted TV antenna. I replaced my old 14ft long monster size antenna with a new compact 4ft antenna. Signals are sent throughout my home to numerous rooms via this amplifier. Works great to distribute over the air TV signals. Recommended

We are getting ready to cut the cord from Cable and do more streaming having tested a few places. I first needed to ensure we had a means to get our true "local" channels. Many years back we had set up a satellite system and had a single attic mounted local channels antenna rigged up for four TV's which was barely adequate (mostly VHF back then). Now we need something to pull in digital (UHF) for six TV's. Because of transmitter locations for us, I had to set up two antennas in the attic facing nearly opposite directions to ensure full coverage. Running the co-phased two antennas into one download feed (RG6) and using much of the old pre-existing/wall-installed RG59 coax, I could pull in what we wanted on one TV but, as soon as I started splitting the line for the rest of the TVs, then reception suffered with each split.I considered going with a pre-amp installation at the antenna(s) source versus going with an amplified splitter. For our installation, the Antennas Direct 8-Port TV Distribution Amplifier made more sense to try first, as our old distribution/splitter run is located in the basement (ranch style house). I figured I could always crawl up in the attic and install pre-amp(s) later if the amplifier didn't work as we hoped.This weekend, I hooked up all six lines/tvs and used 75ohm terminators on the unused ports, installed the power supply line and we have awesome reception on all six TVs. Prior to the amplifier and testing with just the one tv on a short line, I could get 40 channels. With this amplified splitter, we now get 43 channels & clear reception on all six TVs. This truly is better than we expected.In other reviews, some people have had not so good luck and yet other reviewers made the product sound too good to be true. As I mentioned above, this amplifier/splitter is working great for us, however your results may vary as every installation can differ to extremes. Lastly, I am here to tell you this is a no BS honest review and I wasn't paid or given or promised any free stuff to write this. Good luck.

Works good ,when received the red indicater lite did not work ,but I just pushed in on bulb and works ok now.

Not as inexpensive as one may hope, but it does work. We cut the cord a number of months ago and have an expensive amplified outdoor antenna in a rural area. It supports 4 tvs with a simple splitter. But, things were far from plug and play ... just switch the cable line to the antenna and your whole house enjoys free tv now. Nope. Our cable signal came in the basement and was amplified and split in the basement and the attic with variable gain amps. OTA. Going top down, everything was out of balance, bottom up, same thing. The only option was to test every section of line with a small tv. Countless hours of trial and error later, especially when tv stations come and go from one day to another due to inclement weather ... I wondered if our signal was too strong coming out of our existing variable amps. Figured I would try this 8-way splitter with just a bit of boost. ( less boost than the four way, which I figured was like my variable amps )Things were better but still issues on some lines ... long story short. The upgrade many years ago to quad shield RG-6U throughout the house was producing too strong / clean a signal. I added 25-50ft of line in some ... all stations became clear. For one I went back tot he old RG59. Bingo.So yes, one absolutely can use this amplified splitter with the OTA signal from an amplified antenna. Contrary to what some say, it works.I just wish there was a signal meter device to show where a level is at low-ok-high on any given line, because I was suffering from too strong a signal in part of my setup and not one that was too weak.PS: I did use a set of caps on the unused ports.

I have installed these in many homes. Tv antenna, mast mount preamp, ground block for lightningsuppression, inside power inserter, then this powered splitter. This takes out all cable length losses. This setup works every day. 73 Jimmy, WX9DX

The item works well, especially if you have a large house and need to send out signal to distant rooms.The only weak point of this package is the weak coaxial cable. It was very easy to bend the inner core without realizing when you install it to the AC adapter. I highly recommend using a spare, if not stronger cable link between the splitter and the AC adapter.

This is not my first amplifier. I have had at least three taken out with lightning strikes in the area. I purchased this to compliment my Antennas Direct Clearstream 4V antenna and i made sure, this time to purchase a top of the line surge protector. I now run my coax cable through the surge protector and we have survived several more lighting events with no problems. I have 5 total tvs in the house with three lines branching off of this amplifier. The longest run is attached to three TVs with at least 200 feet of coax cable. Very happy with our setup. I cut the cable over 15 years ago, and I'm on my second Antennas Direct antenna at my new home.

It looks like a nice unit. Even has external grounding screws for use outside or bonding inside the house. It has a separate output for an additional preamp if needed. The only problem is that it doesn't work..The preamp port has 0.0v and when I placed it online where my previous 1onOne amplified splitter was, I suddenly had no signal at any of myTV's. As soon as I removed it and switched back everything worked again. Placed it on the bench to test it. The power supply barely puts out 0.01v so then by the time it powers the little flickering led it becomes useless. So I guess I'm stuck with a bright shiny paperweight pos.Don't waste your time or money with this useless product.