Sure, Xbox One’s collection of apps offers live sports, on-demand movies, and top TV shows, but most come with subscription fees. Unless you lived in Europe and could use the digital TV tuner accessory, it's been slim pickings when it came to free content. Now there’s a TV tuner for Xbox One owners in the US and Canada—but while it opens up access to dozens of over-the-air public access, shopping, foreign-language, and major broadcast networks that you can watch, the Xbox One itself limits its usefulness.
For $60, you get a USB dongle that connects to the coaxial cable from an antenna on one end and plugs into your console on the other, a short USB extension cable, and a small antenna that runs five feet from your Xbox One and promises 10 miles of antenna coverage. The non-amplified 10-mile antenna might not be very powerful (it got the same 30 channels my old $10 RCA ANT111F used to pull in), but I was impressed with the unassuming design. It basically looks like an upright pen resting on a base, so it didn't clash with the rest of my entertainment system like old-school or amplified antennas would.
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For $60, you get a USB dongle that connects to the coaxial cable from an antenna on one end and plugs into your console on the other, a short USB extension cable, and a small antenna that runs five feet from your Xbox One and promises 10 miles of antenna coverage. The non-amplified 10-mile antenna might not be very powerful (it got the same 30 channels my old $10 RCA ANT111F used to pull in), but I was impressed with the unassuming design. It basically looks like an upright pen resting on a base, so it didn't clash with the rest of my entertainment system like old-school or amplified antennas would.
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