Don't Buy Clear TV Key Review 

It depends how close you are to broadcast towers and all. Depending where you live a paper clip Can become a good antenna.

I just saw the ad and went to RU-vid and found your channel. I’m not wasting my money on that rip off “ free tv key “ thanks for sharing your review.

I dude I'm granny of 71 you kept me from buying it I only have a flat antenna that hangs on my wall in kicten 1 foot from window and 12 feet to plug in TV I get 63 channels and all locals for total free for 2 years now ,good luck to you.

Thanks for posting this video. You saved me some hassle and some money. I thought so, it sounded too good to be true. Thanks a lot.

Hello Rick. Today 99% of all TV stations in the US are in the UHF region. Most TV stations are now digital. UHF signals have a very hard time penetrating walls and other hard surfaces even glass windows. The other half of the equation is the digital part. TV signals used to be transmitted as an analog signal which meant you could receive a weak signal and still see the picture. WIth digital you are dealing with the capture effect, which means either you have the signal or you don't. In most cases you need an outdoor antenna to have good reception and even then it's hit and miss with UHF.

Well ! Friends it works...at 1st I believed dt video.. d stations are different... I lived in long island..NYC... I'm getting a few wonderful channels for nw.. I swear....🤗

This antenna will work about as well as rabbit ears. You will be able to receive channels within about 10 miles of the transmitter. Other than that , you will need to install an outdoor antenna. There are some good ones available. You can expect to pay around $100 for a decent one.

Thank you for your review. I will not waste my $$$$ on it. I am glad I chose to spend around $40 for Winegard FL-55YR FlatWave Amplified Razor Thin HDTV Indoor Antenna !!!

thank you so much for posting this. I was just about to order one but figured I'd look up reviews on here before.

I was about to order one for my tv, thanks for sharing your experience my friend.

I was just about to order one. I always look at the reviews. Thank you

You rock man! You saved me the 7 bucks I was about to spend buying this on ebay. I have a cheap hd antenna that works fine for my local channels. I just wanted to get rid of the wire. I live in an apartment so a roof antenna is not an option.

Not surprised, but thanks for being the guinea pig for the rest of us. Yeah, I love the ClearTV commercial that’s trying to make something that’s been around for 70+ yrs sound revolutionary. It may be small and digital, but it’s just a TV antenna at the end of the day. And of course all of those channels were always free, but they would never tell us that 😆

& that's why I definitely appreciate the information

I Read the instruction Card that came with the Free TV Key and you are suppose suppose to wrap a strip of Aluminum Foil around your Head as you tune in the Channels. and make you if watching the TV be sitting on a piece of Aluminum Foil.

Go with the onn Walmart antenna for indoor works good

In my opinion, Clear TV promotional ads are intentionally misleading. To begin with, the term "digital antenna" is false. A Television antenna is essentially a piece of metal (or an array of pieces of metal) cut to lengths that will capture radio signals within a certain frequency range (or multiple frequency ranges) of the RF spectrum. There is absolutely nothing about a receiving antenna that distinguishes whether an RF signal is digital or analog, much less that can favor a digital signal. By their use of the term "digital antenna" as a selling point, Clear TV is deceptively asserting falsehood in effort to convince potential customers of an advantage that doesn't exist. Likewise, the company's assertion that their antenna products are "4K Ready" is more of the same. An antenna simply cannot distinguish or provide tailored benefit to a 4K digital signal. To the antenna, an RF signal is merely electromagnetic energy on a particular frequency. Through such deceptive claims, the manufacturer of Clear TV antenna products has been manipulating folks for years into purchasing their indoor antenna devices. Please understand that I'm not suggesting those products will not serve as functional indoor television antennas. I'm saying that the company knowingly pitches their mostly-nothing-special products through hypeful mischaracterizations and false assertions. And I call that scamming. Please realize that receiving antennas in and of themselves do not possess the capability to process, decompress, or assemble signal data. That is, of course, unless one of them happens to be equipped with digital processing circuitry and appropriate firmware (which would provide a separate function from that of the antenna itself). That said, digital signal decoding/processing is neither the role nor the function of a stand-alone receiving antenna. Instead, and specifically in the case of a digital television, it's a function performed by the receiver's digital decoder circuitry (i.e., its binary processing stage) in conjunction with specialized onboard firmware, which are both unrelated to the function of a connected antenna beyond its signal source facilitation. I won't spend much time on the further manipulations contained in Clear TV's ad promotions, such as the false but persistent implication that their antenna products may somehow facilitate cable or other pay-tv programming reception. Such a feat would of course be impossible. I'll simply say that in my opinion Clear TV's ad promotions have been replete with false statements and manipulative comments seemingly structured to enhance the company's bottom line. Besides the deception in advertising, in my view Clear TV antenna products are simply unremarkable. Their benefits can easily be duplicated (or even surpassed) by combining around 30 minutes of time, a few feet of copper wire, some duct tape, a sheet of cardboard, rigid plastic, plexiglass, or plywood, and a short piece of coaxial cable or some 300 ohm twin-lead with an appropriate RF connector. Lastly, it is important to understand that when comparing any two indoor television antennas the digital signal reception quality from them should seem virtually identical as long as the digital binary streams (i.e., all of the 1's and 0's) are fully detected by the device's decoder stage. Generally, a digital television's RF receiver will pass the stream data to the decoder stage where, as long as the signal's integrity remains intact, decoding will occur just as efficiently as if the data came directly from a DVD disk or other local media source. This means that a weak digital television signal, whose reception quality would appear snowy (i.e., noisy) if it were an analog signal, can produce identically superb quality to that experienced when viewing the same data stream from a local DVD disk. That is to say, with digital broadcast television, a weak (and noisy) signal should play on your screen at DVD quality. In other words, since a digital television can often interpret all of the 1's and 0's superimposed on such a weak, noisy digital signal, in many cases there's virtually no benefit in being closer to the broadcast source or having a better antenna. The signal level need only remain slightly above the pixelation/*cliff effect* threshold point for said optimal digital quality to ensue. The above is not to say that a more sensitive replacement antenna (i.e., one with a greater gain value) that has better resonance on the channels/frequencies being tested will not result in stronger signals for a television's receiver and thus, perhaps, a greater number of available channels. Such an improved antenna may do just that. My point is simply this: Barring any significant packet loss, a weak digital television signal from a given broadcast source received through an inferior antenna can easily render the same level of digital quality at the receiver (the TV) that a better antenna nearer the same broadcast source will produce. Stated another way, both the inferior antenna with its weak signal and the better antenna with its stronger signal should render indistinguishable video and audio quality from the same broadcast stream. Drop-out periods, pixelations and screen freezes will only happen when a signal dips below the minimum threshold (cliff effect). Clear TV indoor antennas are merely conductive materials cut to length. The false assertions and misleading characterizations in the company's promotional ads are why I personally consider their marketing methods scammish.

Bought one... JUNK !!!! THEN..... I got an Antenna for $16.99 by Elecwave. First, I said since it's cheap, I just use the Booster for something else, since it's cheap. OMG, to my surprised, it worked better than ANY Antenna I've tried. YES, I have tried ClearStream, Mohu Leaf, ONN, etc..... NOTE: Currently, I am testing inside and I got 43+ Channels, indoor, imagine when I bring it outside!

My experience was completely positive. I went from getting only 2 or three channels to getting around 2 dozen.. highly recommend

PSS. By the way, if you move the Digital Antenna you (Must do a channel Rescan) there is no way of getting around this, you have (disrupted its Physical Location), Moving it will change the signal path. Digital reception is Very Sensitive and different from Analog. You must do a channel rescan.

Go to BEST BUY an you will have many different types of antenna to choose from or go to Walmart buy the telivision section and you will have many to choose from go to home Depot buy metal pole and all the hardware you need you will be very happy you did !!!!! HAPPY WATCHING 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

I have the same outside antenna you have and it claims to reach channels from 150 miles away the farthest away Channel that I get is only 60 miles but it does have a pretty good picture

I got a home made indoor hdtv made from coat hangers and I get 32 channels on it try to build one in your area and see for yourself what it does

Got One! Works on the old tv but not on the new One! Got me a antenna that looks like a big flyswatter hanging down and it works perfect

it's just a fancy designed rabbit ear antenna. Anyone falling for the ambiguous commercial that seemed to imply you could get cable/sat channels for free, well you are who they are directing those commercials to.... suckers.

I live in suburb of Dallas. This antenna did not get one channel from any location in my house

My dad just bought this. I'm burning this shit!!!

The best thing to do Rick is get yourself a Winegard HD7694P HDTV High-Band VHF/UHF Antenna from Walmart for 52 bucks and a tripod roof mount and set it up and you will be very happy with it. you can even use a blonder tongue amplifier and splitter and feed every TV in your house.

with my Emerson tv I found 78 with just a paper clip and good positioning

I got square one at Walgreens...15 bucks....get 36 channels...clear

DON'T GIVE UP ON IT!!!. In my experience - Lots of digital antennas take time for signals to adjust in new areas. I recently bought Clear TV Key and it's just starting to work. I started with 4 channels - Now it's progressing to 7 channels. Little by little it will give off new channels. Just be patient. It works !!! Give it about a week or so and keep scanning the channels from time to time. It'll get there. Don't expect it to work fully right away. Remember - It's not a cable box.

I received my Clear TV antennas and connected it to three of my brand new TV's in different locations at my home with zero channels found. Rip off!

Thanks for warning us! I won't be wasting 20 bucks!!

Had one for 2yrs and it still works

Thx for saving me time and money The reason why you don't get that clear tv key is because the range is between 10-25 miles

I ordered one and it gives me the same number of channels that my old antenna did. I will say the pictures appear more stable though with less interference.

I live in Manhattan NYC and I use a digital antenna with a separate plug in amplifier. Using just the antenna w/o the amp gives crappy reception but with the included amp adapter I receive a multitude of channels and sub channels.....

I had to use the stand like rabbit ears and run a coaxil cable from key to tv.it still was a waste of time and money.I also put it up high on a shelf.

works fine for me and my whole family everyone has one and uses it we get about 20 channels for free your tv looks outdated and the product is meant for newer flat screen hd tv's

Um, most people old enough to buy a big TV should know how antennas work - Large external antennas will pick up many things, the very small in house clear TV antenna can boost stations you ALREADY get without it. Maybe pick up 3 or 4 more channels. For Sale on Ebay for $ 1.99 - it is little more than a flat metal bar with coax connection - the most basic antenna. I have found the powered and filtered mesh or bunny ear antennas are plenty good enough for my urban area. For rural settings out in the country - if you have any stations to pick up - you will most definitely want to run a cable out to your external antenna, large roof mounted device. Be careful to ground it off so you don't turn your TV into a lightening rod !

That's what I thought. I wasted $60 dollars on a similar version: the package sounded so convincing.

On ebay the bids are 1.25 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 I fell out of my seat when I found out because I knew it was a rip off

thank you for this review. i saw the commercial today and i had to find a real review. I live 30 miles away from a major city and its hard to get channels in the suburbs

Who needs TV anyway, when We all have RU-vid...

I have the original square one andthat seems to work, but what I found out is they work on the newer flat screen tv's. Sometimes a booster is needed, that's what I had to do for one of my tv's because of the room it is in.

Its actually not THAT bad, you just have to be in the middle of a city, the Quality is exellent, sometimes the signal is low, and u might miss 2 channels, other than that, its ok, plus there is other way better models.

Thanks dude! Saved me time and aggravation! God bless you!

It works but don't expect miracles!!!

seen this antenna on commercial figured it was bull. I use outdoor antenna like yours that you can adjust with remote works great asbo am in a more rural area.

so glad I saw this I was about to purchase one.... Thanks!!!

It doesn't work.... I am trying it right now and I have found 0 channels! Do not buy it's a scam because if you purchase it online or through the phone they charge you $8 for shipping and if you don't like them you can return them but you have to pay $8 for shipping again!!! Such scammers! They don't loose anything!

that presentaion is positive infomation which is such antenna not funcionable

The Clear TV antenna works good but not always. I taped the antenna to my glass storm door, but on windy or colder days, the channels have static.

Thanks for the video. Almost buy this one 🤔

Hi I got the tv key and it didn't work for me on any of my tvs

I Bought One Because The Commercial Said That You Get Some Cable Channels.Yet When I Installed It And Did The Program Search I Only Got Three Basic Crappy Channels.Its Nearly An Antanae That Makes Your Already Cable Channels,Come In More Clearly And That's It,That's What It Is.And Thats Shitty.

you should do more test ..... take the clear TV antenna and attach it to a long cable and then run it thru an open window and attach it to the pole outside where you outdoor antenna is ...... I know it not suppose to be an outdoor antenna but I would like to see if it would pick up any stations

Thanks for the " heads up" Rick. I was thinking about getting one.

Plain old fashioned RCA rabbit ears for about 15 dollars work for me. They'll pull in high-def, the works. Being in the city probably helps, but still.

I don't have outdoor antenna because I live in an apartment and they don't allow them on the roof. I bought a $30 amplified antenna and I get 55 channels. I was going to try this antenna , but dont think I will now. Thanks 😀

try the clear tv black box as seen on tv infomercial antenna out for your TVs Rick and if that does not work then you can get a better antenna okay

Issue is you have no converter box.Your TV might be old if its made before march 2007 then it has no tuner.And analog TV's require digital converter boxes to get antenna TV.Your TV looks old due to theres not DTV Air DTV cable words during scanning

Got it yesterday and I got 115 channels with it. Great buy......

Rick, your right? This antenna will work but you have to buy a cable adapter so you can extended towards a window. I wanted to tell you to review clear tv's newest antenna a little $ 10.00 dollar premium 4k ready that sticks to the table and has little [ I kid you not rabbit ears you can pull up] Also I loved the MR. Peanut sneakers [ I going to try and get a pair ], and the review you did on The Tac flash light. When you fried it? Was the funniest? You have a good sense of humor.

I bought one got less channels. It doesn t work. Just get a cheep rabbit ear at Wal-Mart. I live close to towers & lost alot of chanels using clear tv. Dont see how you could be in the Gulf & receive reception. Cant get in town.

So the product is a complete lie! I watched other videos. Smh. This would have been so cool if it had worked. Thanks for the review

Maybe Those People Who Were On The Commercial Got Payed....

Thanx for posting. At least I don't have to buy one anymore.

Lol, TVBandit claiming 75 miles on facebook. The bad thing is they try to make people believe their getting paid tv for free. I use OTA in my campers with the rooftop array but not at home. Thinking about a good high gain like you have in the attic.

to late :( have one now...

The device isn't that great I put foil on the antenna and was able to pick up a few more channels my local channels was weak even though we are close to the tower

Got Dish Network on July 28,2019 Tornado was headed for my FEMA Trailer lost all my TV Signals I didn't know a Tornado was headed for my Trailer if my brother hadn't called me I wouldn't have known about it,got rid of Dish Network broke my contract I felt I had to being I have a physical handicap= Cerebral Palsy went back to cable TV!!! I HATE DISH NETWORK!!!!!! from South Louisiana.

Thanks a lot I knew this was some bs

I suspected as much. Homemade DB4 gets me over 30 channels indoors in my garage. Made from a piece of scrap lumber , scrap aluminum wire , and some odd screws and washers out of the miscellaneous hardware stash. Need a balun to hookup the feedwire. Had one laying around. Not bad for a quick and dirty built antenna.

After some research apparently it is very bad indeed, bunch of crooks that are running the business. Thanks for the review, wont ever get this one now :)

this item is a fake. commercial shows a boat from inside. the windows is blocked. it's a rip off.

I tried mine clear tv key on 3 tv's ive gotten the same ,results not 1 channel

Thank you ! This antenna is total fake.

Thank you for letting us see and know about this antenna. Have you tested the 4k Clara tv antenna? It looks different than what you tested. What’s the best option for someone on limited income?

I just bought and tried the antenna. It sucks. Don't waste your money. I had to put my old attention back.

I have the Mohu Curve TV Antenna. It is an amplified antenna you can power is by USB or wall outlet. I tried that HDTV DIgital Free TV Key and it did not work for me either.

getting this from eBay for 5 bucks now. it does work if you attach it to a coax cable and find a perfect spot etc

Thanks for the review. Saved money for the rest of us. We switched to Cable One. It is less expensive than dish for us. They bundle t.v., phones and internet. In case of electrical storms, we use our cell phones and not the house phone.

Windows 10 store has live tv as well go to store in windows 10 search live tv and the first app it says live tv ya that's it live tv

Sayang po Kung nabasa ko sana agad ito d na sana ako bumili tapos ngayon po d ako naka send ng msg sa kanila kc laging close ang chat. Napakapangit ng reception tapos dalawang channel lang 5 at 7 na akala may ulan sa loob NG tv sa ibang channel as in wala. Gusto ko sana ibalikk na lang ito at ibalik na lang nila ang binayad ko. This antenna is too expensive sa halagang 999 php. Nag order ako kc parang ang ganda but the actual item kahit 100pesos walang bibili nito

isn't it designed for direct connection...,no cable no dish? I mean it's basically supposed to stop folks from doing dangerous stuff like using paper clips as antenna. maybe it was the unit itself.... although those should be tested far before reaching you. I was about to order one. but no after I seen this. thank you.

Old School rabbit ears works just as well vhf / uhf is all you need for free HD telivision most people don't know rabbit ears antenna works just as well or mabye better because you can move antenna to get better picture

thanks for the review I thought about getting one of those I won't now..lol

i really just want the BASIC channels, all the cable services are too damn expensive! can anyone recommend a pretty good alternative????? please?

The best way to make this work is to put in on the roof and run a 50ft coax cable to TV. Tho I rather use the rca antenna with 70mile range

Get the TV free Way. I bought a TV Free Way a week ago and it works great. I got over 100 channels.

Thumbs down antenna, thumbs up video

You saved me 30 dollars.. thank u!

Thank you for the help!

It work well behind the tv.it better on a flat surface

If it sounds too good to be true----it usually is!

thank you I was considering purchasing this antenna now I know its a waste of money

Saved me some time and money, thanks.

Rick Mammana, I am like you, this thing can not work! After watching your great Video you and I are 100% right. GIMMICK

thank you for this review.