The One For All SV9380 is a different beast altogether. Selling for a whopping £60 it needs to really deliver to justify paying between three and six times the cost of its rivals.

The packaging boasts of Full HD compatibility, which might be construed as being misleading given that there are no full HD broadcasts, nor likely to be.

The aerial is a slab design, measuring 280mm wide by 138mm tall, encased in a sturdy plastic housing with a brushed aluminium stand. The built-in booster can amplify signals up to 42dB.

Technically speaking, the SV9380’s main draw is the use of Dual Patch technology. One For All claims that this ensures maximum reception for higher density information streams such as the DVB-T2 and HD MPEG4 transmission.

It eliminates unwanted reflection by using a differential mode in the two antenna plates. There is no need for polarisation so it can receive both horizontal and vertical transmitted broadcast signals at the same time.

It should also ensure stable load and gain across the entire frequency spectrum in order to minimise echo and reflection between both the antenna and receiver.

The aerial features SignalClear technology with triple interference filters that offer 10 stages of filtering to eliminate all unwanted wireless signals such as mobile phones.

How it fares

Tragically, in our home test with a less than strong signal the aerial picked up no channels at all.

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