The king of all signal meters: Televes H60
This is the one meter you drool over. The Televes H60 is a spectrum analyzer par excellence, with the ability to read and understand most forms of cable and satellite signals. It’s the meter of…
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Cord-Cutters: Know Your Football Options
A partnership between ESPN and Campus Insiders will deliver the 2016 college football season to more streamers and cord-cutters. While this is great news, Solid Signal brings even more pro and college football to those who…
Back-to-School With Solid Signal
When it comes to back to school shopping, our parents did NOT have it harder than us. Ask any of today’s parents currently doing college shopping. When it came to school, my parents had a flair…
SOUND OFF: Do you really want to stream programming from home?
If all the signs are right, DIRECTV will launch new features on its HR44 and HR54 DVRs in the next few months: live streaming from your DVR and easy transfer of recordings from your DVR to…
September is National Cookout Month
September is the perfect time for cookouts and BBQs. That’s why everyone here at Solid Signal has named it National Cookout Month. My kids and I love to go to the pool at our condo…
Time for a new roof? Think about your satellite and antenna
The summer and fall months are great for roofers. All over the country, people are anxious to repair the damage caused by time and weather. You might do the work yourself if you’re handy and have…
STREAMING SATURDAY: Netflix Brings Gen X’s Teen Years to Life
Netflix has two shows to help members of Generation X relive their teenage years. If you’re ready for something old and something new, then it’s time to get streaming. We Generation Xers are finally old enough…
Televes shows off amplifiers
Our friends at Televes show us their latest amplifier technology, the Nanokom. Nanokom is an advanced distribution amplifier system designed for indoor installation. This is an advanced peek at a product that’s not available in the…
REMINDER: There’s only one place to get NFL Sunday Ticket
Forget about anywhere else. If you’re a football fan you’re going to want DIRECTV NFL Sunday Ticket. It’s every game, every Sunday, no exceptions. Periods. There are no blackouts, no problems, no nothing. Just pure football….
FUN FRIDAY: VHS copies of today’s movies?
Now, there’s a lot in this world I don’t get. I’ll be honest, I don’t understand why anyone would play a vinyl record when they can play a lossless digital file. I don’t understand most of…
So long, Pivot TV. Another channel bites the dust.
After a lifespan of only two years, millennial-focused channel “Pivot” announced yesterday that they’ll be shutting down at the end of the year. It’s another failure driven by the fact that millennials just don’t watch as much linear…
Is there any reason to upgrade a dish that works well?
Think a second… when did you put that dish up on the roof? Was it last year? The year before that? Longer? Think for a second, who was President at the time? Both DIRECTV and DISH…
THROWBACK THURSDAY: Dieter Rams
Apple’s iPhone doesn’t stand alone anymore, but it’s still significant when it gets a refresh. The world has actually changed quite a bit since the iPhone 6 launch two years ago. Most of us aren’t on…
NICE AND EASY: Using On Demand with DIRECTV
You’ve probably seen the commercials… so you know that DIRECTV has over 10,000 on demand choices. You may not know what you need to do in order to get them, so here’s a quick guide. Do…
What’s the best source for 4K content?
So you went and bought a new 4K TV at the local big-box store. Most people looking for larger TVs are going this way now since there simply isn’t that much of a price difference between…