Today’s teens, born in the final days when you could watch Friends on Thursday night, have grown up with a very different view of the world. It goes without saying that they have constant access to information, that…
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Because not everyone wants to drink the Kool-Aid. Slowly, almost imperceptibly, we’re starting to see a revolution in streaming technology. The first generation came from a company most people had never heard from (Roku) followed quickly…
Millennials. They ruin everything, with their expensive haircuts and skinny jeans and bizarre attachment to vinyl records. And now they’ve set their sights on traditional television. Actually, I kid the folks born between 1980-1995, but I’m…
I think it’s pretty fair to call me “the geek’s geek.” I mean, I work at one of the coolest e-commerce sites on the web, routinely test a lot of hush-hush stuff, and then I write…
Well, it’s this. It’s a device just a little larger than your average streaming stick that’s actually a full-featured PC. It’s barely big enough for a couple of USB ports, a power connector and an HDMI…
First off let me say that I don’t know the answer. I have a lot of powerful friends, but there are some corridors of the power structure at AT&T that are closed to me, which is…
The new fall season has started and that means my DVR is getting full again. This year, though, I’m passing on the usual crop of cop dramas and I’ve chosen a spate of sitcoms. I tried this…
Because, you know you want the biggest, baddest one there is. There are a lot of advantages to the SWM-32 multiswitch. It gives you the ability to run 32 tuners off a single multiswitch, and you can…
Yeah it’s gone, possibly for good. You might notice that this site and our parent SolidSignal.com have started using the new DIRECTV branding. In case you haven’t been paying attention, it looks like this: This is…
And here we go. Our CES 2016 coverage starts early this year with rumors that DISH will have a new Hopper DVR. It’s a pretty safe bet that they will show one, at least — The…
There are all kinds of people. Some of us, and yes I’ll count myself in this crowd, tweak every setting we can get our hands on, customizing the experience provided by every single piece of equipment…
The DIRECTV C51 Genie Mini Client looks very familiar, doesn’t it?
Alas, the popular DIRECTV H25 receiver is SWM-only. By that, it means you can only feed it directly from a SWM-enabled Slimline dish or from the SWM outputs of an external SWM multiswitch. The legacy ports on…
The “SWM-31” is a total myth!
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