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A bit of background; I have an axe to grind and it is not because of this product. I have an "old fashioned" analog television. I bought a Digital-Analog TV converter box in preparation for the great conversion coming in Feb. 09. Since I now get about half of the stations I get on analog TV, the box's directions say to get an antenna signal booster, so I did.

This does not seem to be a very good signal booster; but at least is does not block or degrade the TV signals. With the booster, in the digital-TV world, I still only receive about half of the stations I do in the analog-TV world: the booster has made no difference in the ability of the converter box to recognize and acquire incoming digital-TV signals. The booster has also made no improvement to the analog reception either: weak signals are still equally weak, which is why I wrote that does not seem to work very well overall.

I understand that the actual problem with the digital signals is that digital TV signals do not behave as well in hilly or mountainous terrain as analog signals do. An analog signal may be degraded, but at least it "gets through". BTW, I live in Sylmar, CA; part of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles.

Once again, the law of unintended consequences injects itself into the world of technology and the actions of politicians.

Will help with low signal level
This product performs as advertised and will help if your problem is a low signal level. I have 5 splits to TVs and a computer from my main cable line and some of the channels were very snowy and hard to view.
Installing this amplifier cleared up most of these problems. However, now I see faint vertical snow lines running across some channels so I am trying to track this problem down. Overall I am very pleased with the performance of this product.

Everything is better with more power, errrrr, errrrr, errrrrrr.......
I originally bought this product for my home office because I was going to run a TV feed and the cable modem feed off of the same cable wall tap using a monster splitter. A boosted signal was in order and this product fit the bill.

I had no hiccups with my cable internet and was able to watch my HDTV feed with no issues. Installation was extremely simple and no hassles involved.

I eventually ordered a second Motorola booster for our living room when I converted the old tube TV over to an HD LCD TV and HD DVR tuner box.

HD picture is solid and the signal is strong on both of our HD TV sets. All and in all, I have no complaints with this product except that it was sold out for quite some time and hard to find other sellers online that sell this model for some reason :)

geat Unit
I am on the farthest point you can get from my cable providers main feed. Sometimes all channels are not as good as you would wish. I also just got cable high speed. I installed the unit and it improved my picture and also now that I have high speed it passes signals both ways. I have had no problems with it.

be careful buying this
No one in these reviews seem to think it is necessary to tell people that this product only works with converter box for digital signal. I know it doesn't say anywhere on the box that it wont work for direct television hook up, so be careful when buying.