Televes Bexia Indoor Intelligent TV Antenna: Specs
Fluctuate: 55 Miles
Channels Obtained: 33
Amplified: Certain
1080p Reception: Certain
Cable Dimension: 6 Toes
Measurement: 12.6 x 6.8 x 0.76 inches
The issue with most indoor TV antennas is that, successfully, they provide the impression of being outdoors antennas. The $74.95 Televes Bexia breaks out of that mould with a novel design that is additional at residence in a lounge or den. In our exams, it turned in frequent tuning effectivity nonetheless was simple to rearrange in a variety of configurations, which is ready to endear it to family members who don’t want to stick a giant pancake-style antenna on a wall.
It isn’t the perfect TV antenna on the earth, nonetheless within the occasion you are after a stylish design, the Televes Bexia delivers.
Design
The handle-shaped black plastic Televes Bexia has a novel configuration that allows you to stand it upright on a tabletop (attributable to a flip down stand), lay it flat on a window sill, or grasp it on a wall.
It’s also comparatively compact at merely 6.8-inches extreme, so it’s an unobtrusive addition to a TV setup. The Bexia moreover incorporates an in-line amplifier with an affect adapter — or you can plug it proper right into a powered USB port in your TV.
Setup
The Bexia supplies one of many versatile placement decisions. We used its standing tabletop place, which appeared to work biggest in our regular testing location. The one draw back is that the coaxial cable is connected to the antenna. So you can’t add an prolonged cable or additional carefully shielded cable should the need come up.
The in-line amp was straightforward to connect. As on a regular basis, we advocate checking to see what stations are doubtlessly obtainable in your area, as successfully. Conveniently, Televes includes a QR code in its documentation for connecting to Antennaweb.org, which is ready to mean you can uncover the state of affairs of native TV towers.
Effectivity
As is our observe with amplified antennas, we examined the Televes Bexia with its inline vitality amp on and associated to a 55-inch Hisense U8N Assortment QLED TV, which has a built-in NextGen TV (ATSC 3.0) tuner to verify we would pull throughout the latest over-the-air stations. Preliminary scans with the Hisense set returned a listing entire of 44 stations, nonetheless as with totally different antennas, not all the channels obtained right here in clearly.
We had been able to observe the native CBS affiliate and NBC with out hassle, nonetheless couldn’t receive the weaker ABC signal or the native PBS stations. There was nonetheless heaps to watch on retro sub-channels, along with the Western-oriented Grit channel and Laff comedy channel, along with the favored Spanish language Telemundo channel.
From our distinctive scans, in the long run 11 stations turned out to be unwatchable. That made for a final outcomes of 33 channels that the Bexia was able to grab, a modest nonetheless not atypical final result.
Verdict
If sort and ease of use are extreme in your itemizing of priorities, the Televes Bexia will meet your requirements. It represents a break from the tyranny of large, flat wall-mounted antennas. However, the tradeoff is the following ticket, notably compared with the likes of the $25 Channel Grasp FLATenna, and it yields solely frequent effectivity in relation to capturing over-the-air broadcasts.