DIRECTV NOW, AT&T’s streaming service, continues to get better and better. Sure, there are competitors out there, and the first few months of the service were a little … difficult sometimes. But they’ve been updating with…
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At a glance: Over 1,000 stations move 33 stations go off the air $10 billion paid to broadcasters $20 billion collected in new spectrum licenses 15 TV channels (37-51) to be converted to cell data…
Burner phones. That’s what we used to call prepaid phones. So cheap you used them once and only good for voice or text. A burner phone was no way for a person to go through life,…
They’re calling it “the first 4K broadcast from space.” And it isn’t. That doesn’t mean it isn’t cool, but it’s not that. Let’s back up. On April 26, to cap off the meeting of the National…
In another sign that they’re serious about 5G AT&T has announced plans to acquire Straight Path Communications, according to a recent press release. Straight Path seems to be a holding company that was created to buy…
FCC Chair Ajit Pai laid it all out yesterday. He does not plan to pursue new rules that would have allowed people to talk on their phones while on planes. As we all know, the rule…
In the last 12 months, we’ve seen DIRECTV rise to be the only TV provider in the US with full-time live 4K content. There’s more coming too… although it’s up to content providers to start…
Here’s the stuff they won’t tell you. You can get a lot of information about your Genie Mini Client by pressing and holding {INFO} on the white remote. There’s a lot more info to be…
It seems like every winter gets a little weirder. For folks up north, it looked like an exceedingly dry winter until the most recent snowpocalypse covered us all in the white stuff and caused major havoc….
Jake Buckler will be back next week with his normal dose of love and affection for streaming, don’t worry. This week I’m back with a … slightly different perspective. So, just before the start of the…
Why spend a ton of money for an antenna when you can use a couple of coat hangers and a 2×4? That’s the question being posed at several sites, including ours. We put our very own…
Most telecommunications satellites today have a usable life of 10-15 years. The usable life of a satellite depends not only on factors like it not burning out, not having hardware failure, not being hit by a…
Tonight we’re gonna watch TV like it’s 1999. Literally. Back in 1999, two new products hit the market. At the time no one could decide whether to call them “personal video recorders” or “digital video…
If you want an antenna to last a lifetime, you want it to be solidly made. Our Televes antennas are designed to the highest standards of quality and should last you decades if they’re properly mounted…
If you don’t know what a band stop filter is, you’re missing out. This little device has a ton of different uses. It’s designed for DIRECTV systems, to block the connected home signal from getting to receivers that…