You’ll need an HR54 Genie. This tip came to our forums a few weeks ago but it’s taken a while to confirm. It is true, if you want 4K service from DIRECTV and you don’t already have…
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Good on them. DISH today announced the results of a food drive conducted by employees all over the country. Believe it or not, they collected enough to feed 25,000 people. I have to say, when companies…
How many times have we been down this road? Once again, Media General rises to the forefront with a potential blackout of 70 local stations. This is the company that narrowly avoided a blackout situation…
I’m an early adopter. Surprised? It means I get to play with cool stuff pretty early on, and it also means I often get stuck at a dead end, having invested in a technology that went…
I really like that segment on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver when he asks, “How is this still a thing?” I’ve been using that phrase for years and it’s true, you look at something and it’s…
It’s Friday and you really don’t want to work. I’m not saying you’re going to hang around work being unproductive, but let’s just say that for some reason you’re bored with the idea of looking for…
The team at DIRECTV has been busy updating the award-winning app for smartphones and tablets. The first thing you’ll notice of course, is the new AT&T globe logo, replacing an icon that featured nothing but the…
If you’ve been reading this blog a while, you know that I love to beat up Time Warner Cable. Their customer service is always poor, their equipment is consistently behind the times, and their internet service…
No I’m not kidding. DOGTV is the first TV network designed for dogs. It’s in standard definition because apparently dogs aren’t that picky. More importantly it’s on DIRECTV channel 354 and you (and your dog) can…
I’ll admit that when I’m in our Southern California office, I sometimes watch TV news. I mean the local news sometime between 4 and 6pm. I don’t watch long unless there’s a car chase, which happens…
When the Hopper 3 was first shown at the CES show in January, one of the more intriguing features was Sports Bar Mode. This is sort of a “super picture-in-picture” where you can watch 4 live channels…
Broadcasters complain that they’re on the verge of losing everything. They claim they need 18 minutes of commercial airtime every hour in order to keep American Idol and Dancing with the Stars on the air. On the other hand, DISH…
I’m talking about all the local stations owned by NBC Universal like KNBC Los Angeles and WNBC New York, plus national channels like MSNBC, Bravo, USA, Telemundo, and the like. (If you want the full…
It’s become almost cliche to say broadcast networks have an advertising problem. People skip commercials. They just do. Unless you’re watching a show live, a lot of the impact of the commercial is lost. And that’s…
Frequent readers of this blog might note that I’m more than a little concerned about future robot uprisings. Oh, I try to put on a happy face and pretend that’s not a possibility, but after I…