How to Choose the Size and Resolution of Your Next TV
We’ll make sense out of TV screen sizes, resolutions, etc.
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NICE AND EASY: Can You Use a DIRECTV Receiver with a 220 Volt Power Source?
If you want DIRECTV in your boat, you gotta get this right.
What are distant network services?
What do you do when you can’t get your local channels through DIRECTV? Once upon a time this was a big problem. In the early 2000s, DIRECTV did not offer local channels in any market, relying…
Solid Signal’s HANDS ON REVIEW: Surecall EZ4G Cell booster
The booster for the high-rise. Yes, there are lot of cell boosters out there. Some are small, some are large, but almost all of them have the same problem: you need to put the antenna…
FOOD FOR THOUGHT: When Google wasn’t even a word
Google’s recent logo redesign has me thinking about a lot of things, like how bad logo design has gotten and why that doesn’t matter. I started by thinking about how Google wasn’t even a word 15…
Our customers say: CELL BOOSTERS WORK
It isn’t often these articles write themselves, but every so often I get an e-mail from a customer that really doesn’t take any more explanation. So, take a look for yourself. I’m writing to you to…
DIRECTV and AT&T – I’m thinking bundles
Way back in… well six months ago, it was hard to talk about bundling when you talked about DIRECTV. While the company did (and still does) have some deals with internet service providers and cell phone…
Will I need new equipment for DIRECTV 4K?
Definitely. But we don’t know how much. 4K is supposed to be the future. It sure isn’t the present; even though DIRECTV offers a limited selection of pay-per-view movies in 4K, they don’t offer any…
COULD IT BE: DIRECTV’s latest DVR doesn’t output 4k?
It’s not even out yet, could it be obsolete? That’s the claim some are making against DIRECTV’s HR54 Genie DVR. The replacement for the popular HR44 Genie won’t be with us for some time (although we have an…
Will DIRECTV ever get past the 100-series-link limit?
If you’re a bingewatcher you might have bumped up against the absolute link for the number of series links you can record on DIRECTV. You can set up 100 series or recurring recordings, that’s it. That’s…
DIRECTV-Ready TV or external client: The facts, 2015 edition
DIRECTV is on a mission. They seem to want every major TV maker to include a DIRECTV-ready system in their televisions. I get it, that cuts down on the need to make client boxes. So far,…
NICE AND EASY: What is LTE?
You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to understand it!
Missing the Color Buttons on Your Old Remote? Here’s How You Deal With That
The color buttons are gone but it still works the same.
NICE AND EASY: How fast is DIRECTV’s coax networking?
You’ve probably already learned that you can use DIRECTV’s coaxial lines to add real, wired networking to any room. (If you haven’t, check out our White Paper.) The most common question asked, though, is whether or not…
NICE AND EASY: What is a rotator?
Once upon a time, it was common for antenna rotators to be found in small towns all over the country. If you found yourself in central New Jersey, where it’s possible to get New York and…