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 - What they don't tell you...I already have a TV42 (round dish) antenna and it has worked perfectly for years and years so I presume the TV44 (oval dish) would also work flawlessly. Here's the whole story... I've been a DirecTV subscriber for a long time but my area's market size (pop. 225,000) appears to be too small for DirecTV to offer local channels. With normal DirecTV service and analog broadcasts from local stations, the TV42 antenna served us very, very well. Santa let me purchase a new HDTV for Christmas so I also made arrangements to have a new 5LNB oval DirecTV HDTV dish installed. I ordered the TV44 antenna for it and was going to have the DirecTV installer put it in along with the new dish. The TV42 and TV44 antennae are both amplified and draw their power from a satellite receiver in your system. Both models require the use of diplexers to split the over-the-air signal from the satellite signal and to be sure the power passes properly to the antenna's amplifier. The DirecTV installer told me that any diplexer installed in a line carrying HDTV satellite signals will knock out the majority of the HDTV signals -- it will still work but it won't be HiDef. I didn't want to take any chances, so I had them install the new HDTV satellite equipment without an antenna of any kind. After the installer left, I ran additional (new) coax from my old TV42 antenna (still mounted on the old round dih) to my various televisions. The over-the-air part of my setup is pretty much a standalone system now; the Sat/OTA signals never share the same coax. I've got one of my old receivers in the OTA system just to supply power to the antenna's amp. Whew! That was a pretty long story. Anyway, while I cannot swear to the accuracy of the DirecTV installer's assessment of the Diplexer/HDTV situation, it would appear that DirecTV subscribers should excercise due caution here if they want HDTV service. The installer mentioned that they didn't know of the problem at first and had to go back to a number of customers to 'fix' it afterward. Rating:  - Does not support Dual LNB dishes as describedThis only supports triple-LNB Directv dishes. I have a dual and triple LNB dish for my Directv and I wanted to put this on my dual LNB dish. However this is too big, it will not fit on the smaller dish. It will only fit on my larger triple LNB dish (which doesn't work for me). I did just do a quick test on it though to see how it picked up the reception and it worked pretty well. Got all my locals in with no major problem and even got a station from about 60-70 miles away that is not in my local area. So if you are putting this on a triple LNB system go for it. if you are trying to put this on a dual LNB (like the description says), then you need to look for a different one. Rating:  - Terk TV44 AntennaThis product works great in our rural area. Allows us to get in our local networks crystal clear, which is great since our satellite company does not carry them. Also brings in 5-6 other channels fairly well that we would not get otherwise. Rating:  - A waste of time and moneyI live on the ground floor of a four-floor condo building, so naturally I thought this antenna would give me better reception than a powered antenna in my living room. Wrong! First, the patch cables they send you with the product are too short to install on a 3 LNB DirecTV dish, so I had to make a trip to Radio Shack (the 4 foot cable is just right). Second, the coaxial connectors on the antenna show their poor craftsmanship (Made in China) since the threads are not flattened on two sides, making in near impossible to screw on all of the connections in such small quarters without stripping the threads. But all of that would have been worth it if the product actually worked. It doesn't. At all. Really, I went from receiving approximately 50% of the HD signals in my area to receiving just one. I returned my Terk TV-5 for this product and what a mistake! This product is not worth the time or the money. Buy something else. Rating: - The antenna is NOT compatible with all mini-dish systemsThe Terk 44 does not work with Dish 1000 satellite dishes. After installing, I found out the hard way that this dish does not work with my ATT Dish Network HD DVR system. The description states that "The antenna is compatible with all mini-dish systems". This is NOT true. This might work for your system, but check to see if your dish is a Dish 1000 first.
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