How the $%#@ do I turn this thing on??
When I was a kid there were 5 TV Channels in Chicago – 2, 5, 7, 9 and 11, CBS, NBC, ABC, WGN (Independent) and PBS. Oh, what a simple time. If we wanted to…
Read MoreWhen I was a kid there were 5 TV Channels in Chicago – 2, 5, 7, 9 and 11, CBS, NBC, ABC, WGN (Independent) and PBS. Oh, what a simple time. If we wanted to…
Read MoreConsider for a moment, your smartphone’s screen. First of all it has a resolution of, let’s say, 1920×1080. That’s maybe about 260 pixels per square inch. That means in a space of about 3″ x 4″,…
Well, the blog team are back in our cozy chairs with suitcases unpacked and hangovers finished, and it’s time to look back on the stuff we really liked and disliked about this year’s International CES. This…
While we’re glad the blog team got to travel on the company dime but there’s another reason that our Solid Signal team traveled to CES: Business. There’s a lot of business that goes on at the International CES…
No we don’t have any fancy award ceremony, but the first ever Solid Signal Blog award for best booth of the show goes to…. Samsung. In fairness, we must of course disclose that Solid Signal is a DISH…
We’ll have our pick for best booth in about two hours, but yesterday Reviewed.com gave its CES 2014 Editors’ Choice award to Super Joey, the new accessory for Hopper that gives it two additional tuners. We were impressed by Super…
There’s an art to choosing your booth at CES. Too small and your customers can’t get to you. On the other hand, here are some examples of companies that probably should have rethought their positions. It…
There’s been too many questions to ignore this topic. DISH is making a bigger-than-ever splash at the International Consumer Electronics Show, but DIRECTV hasn’t had a public presence since 2007. Starting in 2008 they have occupied…
The good news is that we got a little better bandwidth and can show you some pictures from DISH’s booth at the 2014 International Consumer Electronics Show. The DISH booth was hopping (pun intended) and one…
Our blog team spent Wednesday on the ground and after much discussion and quite a bit of ibuprofen for sore feet, we had to agree that there was just a ton of stuff out there that…
Yesterday was the first day of the International CES and what a day it was. We had the chance to walk a few of the halls and we’re glad to give you our perspective. (Hey, we…
CES 2014 is in full swing and we went down to the DISH booth to get questions answered. We’ll have a full photo essay later (you all know how hotel internet is) but we did get…
This might just be the year you buy an HDTV from some company you’ve never heard of. And we’re not just talking about the Dynexes, the Zeniths, the Emersons, or the other generic brands that have…
Finally, someone closes the gap. It’s true that not everyone needs to boost all five major frequencies used by cell providers. Not everyone needs to boost 4G, AWS, and LTE. For those who do, however, there’s…
DISH is putting out press releases faster than we can read them. We’ll publish them all here, but here’s the straight dope: DISH is showing extensions to its Hopper Super DVR that add more capabilities to…