Antennas are great but… they don’t get signals from every direction. The most powerful antennas, the most efficient ones, are also the ones that are the most directional. If you live far away from the broadcast…
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Quick answer: It’s the Russian GPS. There’s an interesting history to it that makes it even more interesting. The global positioning system (GPS) was developed by the US Military, so troops on the ground would know…
The springtime competition between Amazon Prime Video and Netflix is heating up, just like the weather. This is good news for fans of both streaming services. Good news, streamers! Amazon Prime Video and Netflix are working…
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…
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…