Best of the Blog 2013, Volume 4
Take a look at the best from the fall and early winter of 2013.
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Best of the Blog 2013, Volume 3
Take a look at the best from the summer of 2013.
Best of the Blog 2013, Volume 1
The hits keep coming… here’s the best from early 2013.
Solid Signal’s HANDS ON Review: DIRECTV GenieGO 2
Sometimes the sequel is better than the original. DIRECTV has given us early access to the next generation of GenieGO and we’re bringing you this exclusive review! Is it better? Is it stronger? Is it faster?…
Blu-ray Disc is dead. Here’s why.
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…
EDITORIAL: Maybe I don’t want a Smart TV
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…
How the $%#@ do I turn this thing on??
When I was a kid there were 5 TV Channels in Chicago – 2, 5, 7, 9 and 11, CBS, NBC, ABC, WGN (Independent) and PBS. Oh, what a simple time. If we wanted to…
CES2014: Super Joey Wins Editor’s Choice
We’ll have our pick for best booth in about two hours, but yesterday Reviewed.com gave its CES 2014 Editors’ Choice award to Super Joey, the new accessory for Hopper that gives it two additional tuners. We were impressed by Super…
CES2014: DISH Booth Tour
The good news is that we got a little better bandwidth and can show you some pictures from DISH’s booth at the 2014 International Consumer Electronics Show. The DISH booth was hopping (pun intended) and one…
CES2014: Your DISH questions answered
CES 2014 is in full swing and we went down to the DISH booth to get questions answered. We’ll have a full photo essay later (you all know how hotel internet is) but we did get…
CES2014: DISH shows next-gen Joeys and…
DISH is putting out press releases faster than we can read them. We’ll publish them all here, but here’s the straight dope: DISH is showing extensions to its Hopper Super DVR that add more capabilities to…
CES2014: DISH integrates Hopper apps and adds Smart TV
DISH kicks off its presence at the International CES with two announcements sure to excite the DISH faithful. First is the Vitrual Joey, which is an app that will run on 2014 LG Smart TVs and…
Whaddaya know, DIRECTV does put out 1080p on Channel 125
Not ashamed to admit when I’m wrong. For years I’ve been telling people that DIRECTV only sends 1080p signals with pay-per-view movies. It’s been pointed out to me that there is one channel that broadcasts in…
My TiVo Roamio & Mini Thoughts & Observations
TiVo Roamio & Mini Environment with FiOS Ultimate HD, from the perspective of a DirecTV Genie (HR44) environment with DirecTV Premier HD: My FiOS Infrastructure 2 Roamio Pro’s (w/3TB), 1 Roamio Plus (w/1TB), 4 Mini’s,…
2013: The Year in DIRECTV
It’s been an evolutionary year for DIRECTV but that’s not a bad thing. Where 2011 and 2012 saw a flurry of new products including the Genie DVR and client, THR22 TiVo, iPad app, GenieGo, and Wireless…