The 2014 International Consumer Electronics Show is coming January 7-10 and we’ll be there! Of course we’ll have our normal small reporting staff and we’ll be blogging our little brains out trying to match engadget’s two busloads of…
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It was the year that wasn’t. 2013 turned out to be a mostly evolutionary year for handset manufacturers, while people’s tastes solidified with just a few major players. Let’s take a look back. The players on…
DIRECTV SWM technology is awesome, but not everyone is ready to upgrade right away. If you’re staying with legacy technology for one reason or another, you need to watch out for these receivers that won’t work…
DIRECTV’s Investor Day is going on now and we’re watching the live feed. We’ll be posting updates during the day that are being shown. Keep refreshing the page and we’ll post updates as we have them….
For years and years I used my phones without any kind of password protection. I would see folks unlocking their phones every time they took them out to do anything. It seemed like a bit of…
It can be done. There are so many rumors that you can’t use the AM21 antenna module with the HR44 Genie. It’s easy to see how they get started since our guide to installing an AM21 has you unplugging the receiver…
Yeah, that’s me. Mister Satellite Geek. I wonder if there is a twelve step program for people like me. I think that I’m past the point of being an enthusiast… I believe I may have a…
DIRECTV Residential Experience. We’ve been talking about it for over a year. To date, over 1,000 hotels have installed DIRECTV receivers and DVRs into guest rooms, giving the best quality HD picture and hundreds of channels to…
You’ve seen them there just taunting you. Those “flex ports” on your multiswitch. They’re just there empty while the other input lines happily supply your home with satellite service. So what are they there for? …