The web is abuzz this morning with news, first reported in The Wall Street Journal and The Los Angeles Times that AT&T has shown some interest in buying DIRECTV. The combined company would have roughly 26 million subscribers, still less…
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You just know the person who had this mod living room had an equally tasty open-reel sound system. There might have also been a console television — in color to be sure — and maybe even…
I’ve spent a lot of time talking about using technology for those of us that are a little afraid of tech. But, you know, there’s so many resources out there that I think it’s time…
Marty Silbernik is the author of I’m Too Old To Do This, a tech blog for folks who remember when none of this stuff existed. This article appears with permission. n prior posts, I’ve talked about how…
For 50 years, TV drama was “episodic.” Sure things changed but you didn’t need to know what happened last week to enjoy this week. All of a sudden, in the wake of complex dramas like The Sopranos and 24 TV…
I was watching the local news the other day and a headline came on and said “Are we addicted to technology”. My first inclination was no, we weren’t. Tech is a tool — a tool…
No one talks about broadcast radio anymore… yet it seems everyone still listens to it. It’s not the sensation it once was, and after 75 years of competition, radio is just one of your many entertainment…
Oh, the travails of life in the 21st century. We’re presented with peculiar perils of propriety that would have utterly befuddled our ancestors. Is it ok to take a phone call while on a date? What…
Take a moment if you will, to mourn the Blu-ray Disc. It died of a broken heart sometime in the last year, and although it is expected to shamble on as a shadow of its former…
Ah… I remember the days fondly. The phone would ring and we’d pick it up. You never knew who was on the other end. It could be the neighbor next door. It could be a…
It just doesn’t seem like such a big thing. Back in 2012, we gave low marks to NBC’s Olympics coverage. 2012 was the first Olympics to take place since most people started streaming video. Before then, average internet…
Say it ain’t so, Joe. A recent article at MobileBurn claims that Sprint is expanding its DirectConnect Now service to several of its phones including the popular Samsung Galaxy S4. DirectConnect Now is the spiritual successor to Nextel, providing…
Up until just last year, new songs were introduced almost exclusively via radio and sometimes TV. Last year was the first time that some major songs were introduced via the web and made their way…
It seems an odd thing for a blogger to say, doesn’t it? But really, the word “trending” really gets on my nerves now and again. It’s hard to say why, but it just really rubs me…
Longtime readers of The Solid Signal Blog will see that over time, my thinking about Smart TVs has evolved. I was a big fan of the technology in 2011, even investing my own money to get a…