Yeah it’s gone, possibly for good. You might notice that this site and our parent SolidSignal.com have started using the new DIRECTV branding. In case you haven’t been paying attention, it looks like this: This is…
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And here we go. Our CES 2016 coverage starts early this year with rumors that DISH will have a new Hopper DVR. It’s a pretty safe bet that they will show one, at least — The…
There are all kinds of people. Some of us, and yes I’ll count myself in this crowd, tweak every setting we can get our hands on, customizing the experience provided by every single piece of equipment…
The DIRECTV C51 Genie Mini Client looks very familiar, doesn’t it?
Alas, the popular DIRECTV H25 receiver is SWM-only. By that, it means you can only feed it directly from a SWM-enabled Slimline dish or from the SWM outputs of an external SWM multiswitch. The legacy ports on…
The “SWM-31” is a total myth!
Backover cameras save lives and we have them.
We’ll make sense out of TV screen sizes, resolutions, etc.
If you want DIRECTV in your boat, you gotta get this right.
What do you do when you can’t get your local channels through DIRECTV? Once upon a time this was a big problem. In the early 2000s, DIRECTV did not offer local channels in any market, relying…
The booster for the high-rise. Yes, there are lot of cell boosters out there. Some are small, some are large, but almost all of them have the same problem: you need to put the antenna…
Google’s recent logo redesign has me thinking about a lot of things, like how bad logo design has gotten and why that doesn’t matter. I started by thinking about how Google wasn’t even a word 15…
It isn’t often these articles write themselves, but every so often I get an e-mail from a customer that really doesn’t take any more explanation. So, take a look for yourself. I’m writing to you to…
Way back in… well six months ago, it was hard to talk about bundling when you talked about DIRECTV. While the company did (and still does) have some deals with internet service providers and cell phone…
Definitely. But we don’t know how much. 4K is supposed to be the future. It sure isn’t the present; even though DIRECTV offers a limited selection of pay-per-view movies in 4K, they don’t offer any…