The tool shed at my grandparents’ house was the scariest part of my summer vacations. It was a small, thrown-together contraption next to my grandparents’ lakeside cottage. Gramps kept his tackle box and the fishing poles…
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There’s only one brand of amplifiers designed for the way you use your antenna today. Most amplifiers are designed for analog technology. Televes’ unique mast-mounted amplifiers are designed with digital television in mind and incorporate the…
I really want an UltraHD Blu-ray player, which is a sure sign the format is headed for an early death. As my friends know, I have the worst luck picking sides in electronics battles. I was…
I can’t explain why, but it seems like the world has gone batty for virtual reality lately. I’m old enough to remember the last time this came around, back in the 1990s, and I have a…
Such a simple question, such a complex answer. After all, we put pretty much our entire lives in the cloud, on YouTube, on OneDrive or Google Drive or iCloud Drive or Mulholland Drive, on Facebook and…
Televes’ mast-mounted amplifiers are a little different from other amplifiers you’ll find on the market. They’re sort of a mix between preamplifier and distribution amplifier — the power levels are extremely high, but then you have…
So, I’m slowly warming up to 4K. It certainly helps that DIRECTV actually has 4K content now and so there is something I can do with my 4K television rather than just watch HD on it….
True it’s only a name change, but it’s a start. Several sources report this morning that once the merger between Time Warner Cable and Charter is complete, the new name will be Charter — the Time…
Ready for more awesome 4K programming from DIRECTV? DIRECTV has announced that they will be covering the AT&T Byron Nelson Golf Tournament in 4K this weekend, May 21 and 22. Coverage of the 17th hole…
Perhaps it’s not a problem if you’re one of those people who never obsesses over anything. Maybe you can look at an image like the one above and never feel like something is vaguely… unfinished. Or…
If you have older AirOS equipment and and haven’t updated firmware in a while, there is a risk of a virus that could infect your equipment. If you have the latest firmware then you’re probably ok,…
Take one last look back at 2015 before we move on to 2016!
Let’s face facts here. Live TV streaming isn’t ready for prime time, not quite yet. The only service that could even come close to replacing a cable subscription is DISH’s Sling TV, and let’s say, it’s…
You’re just now getting your craft ready for the summer and when you turn on your TV to test it… static. Or you get a signal loss message. This is a very common occurrence for DISH…
Televes amplifiers connect to coaxial cables without connectors. That’s right, you don’t need to put a connector on when you’re running the cable to the amp. (You are running new cable, right?) Here’s a PDF…