When HN users recommended it
2 HN users recommended this between 2016 and 2017, in 2 comments.
20072026
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DVB T RTL2832U RTL SDR Receiver Compatible
Amazon's catalog no longer lists this product (checked 2026-11-02). The name comes from the link HN users posted.
$8.66, and I'm sure you can go lower. https://www.amazon.com/DVB-T-RTL2832U-RTL-SDR-Receiver-Compa...
Anything with RTL2832U + R820T will do.
Something like this works:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PDM76ZW/
but you'll probably need a better directional antenna to have good reception (depends on the specific part of the world for how strong the signal is).
Once you're used to fast internet you won't want any of that though. Streaming HDTV on a 50Mbps+ internet connection ends up being a better experience since you don't have to go through all the setup hassle to make this work equivalently (installing the antenna, connecting it to a dongle on your own server, installing some kind of head end software, streaming from that server over your own network). I've done both and the antenna setup is now fully deprecated.