SOUND OFF AND WIN: Show us your antenna installation!
Are you proud of your antenna? Show us pictures of your installation, describe it and let us know how it works. Does it get all the channels you want? Is it still the one your…
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STREAMING SATURDAY: Netflix in September
Netflix in September will bring the second season of an original series and a documentary on sexual assault. Both should make for some entertaining and thought-provoking streaming. Netflix is the perfect entertainment source for myself and…
Princess’s Perfect Pink Computer Case
What do you get a young lady who loves consumer electronics products for her eighth birthday? I think I’ve finally found the perfect thing, and it’s available from Solid Signal. Next month, my niece turns eight….
THEY LISTENED TO ME: Apple to clean up app store
If you recall, it wasn’t that long ago that I pointed out some serious problems with Apple’s App Store. I’m guessing Apple’s Tim Cook reads The Solid Signal Blog, because yesterday Apple issued new guidelines for apps and…
Super Streaming for Kids
Want to spend more time with the kids in your family? Make your house a streaming hotspot with one easy-to-use consumer electronics product. We’ve been talking about consumer electronics products for kids with birthdays in October….
OPINION: When favorite shows “jump the shark”
Jump the Shark. It’s a term that’s been around 20 years or so and it generally means, “that moment when a TV show stops being worth watching.” The idea is that there’s some fundamental change in…
Forget Alexa, Siri, and Cortana – DIRECTV’s Voice Control beats them all!
All of a sudden talking is big. We’ve reached this critical mass with Alexa, Google, Siri, Cortana, and all those other voice-command bots that it seems like talking to your mobile device has become the norm….
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…
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…