Keep Your Kids Safe on the Road
Do you have kids of driving age? Help them arrive safely at their destinations with a GPS navigation system. We have several fall birthdays in my wife’s family. Our son, Hunter, turns 19 this October. Our…
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Fall TV Preview: A New Hope
Yesterday, Stuart Sweet told us that the fall TV schedule will be filled with the same old, same old. I think Stuart is a bitter old man who can’t see that the new TV season will be…
NICE AND EASY: What is “DIRECTV Showroom?”
It’s… well, it’s nothing really. Actually that’s kind of mean. If you go into the DIRECTV Menu, you find a menu called “Extras” which is mostly a graveyard of previously interesting stuff. You can get to…
Fall TV Preview: Revenge of the Dreck
I was trying to make a Star Wars reference but this is a family-friendly site and so I couldn’t exactly call it Revenge of the … (another word that has the same letters as “Sith.”) It’s time for that…
DIRECTV will offer HBO on its streaming platform (and why is that news?)
DIRECTV seems on track to launch its streaming services, and as we said back in March, there will be three of them. At least one will be free, and the top tier, known as “DIRECTV Now,” will…
FOOD FOR THOUGHT: We’ve left the future behind
Not that long ago, I had the pleasure of getting my hands on one of these: You’d be forgiven if you thought this was a publicity still from 50 years ago. (You would not be forgiven if you…
STREAMING SATURDAY: Amazon Video Update: Jack Ryan and More
Are you a streamer who’s also a fan of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan character? If so, then there’s one place you want to be, and that’s Amazon Video. Even casual moviegoers are familiar with Clancy’s Jack…
How fast should your internet be for DIRECTV On Demand?
If you live where internet speeds are slow, you spend every day just longing for something better. You see your friends streaming Netflix in 4K or sharing large files easily. It’s a drag. But hey, you’ve…
What’s the best option for recording antenna TV?
In just a few short years, people have learned to rely on the DVR. If you have pay TV, there is an excellent chance you have a DVR. You may only use it to pause live…
THROWBACK THURSDAY: Restoring the future
It’s a 50-year-old chunk of wood that doesn’t fly and can’t even stand up by itself. For a while it was considered garbage. Now it’s in the Smithsonian. I’m talking about the original large-scale model of…
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…
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…