It’s easy to get lost in the thousands of channels of progamming on DIRECTV. You can find yourself scrolling for days through channels you don’t care about in languages you don’t understand. Luckily there are two…
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Eventually everything ends, so I’m sure at some point satellite TV, at least DIRECTV, will end. But folks, it’s not coming anytime soon. A lot of folks are worried that DIRECTV is going to wind down…
Well… you can be patient. Right now DIRECTV only allows one 4K TV on the account with the HR54 Genie DVR, using a DIRECTV 4K Ready Smart TV or DIRECTV C61K 4K Genie Mini Client. It’s a technical…
On Friday, DIRECTV added El Rey and Sprout in HD. I meant to report on on it, but folks sometimes life just doesn’t go that way. But I’m glad I waited because the real story wasn’t…
Pac12 Network. Spectrum Sportsnet LA. There are other channels out there that DIRECTV fans crave but those two keep coming up as examples of how DIRECTV has “lost its mojo” or “become a slave to the…
The best resources just get better! Since its original publication in 2012, our white paper originally titled “More than 16 Tuners in the Home” has been downloaded over 150,000 times! It’s become the ultimate authority for…
Because not everyone has unlimited data. It’s funny how the balance seems to shift in the world of cell phone and tablet viewing. Of course in the 2000s no one had enough bandwidth to stream. That’s…
DIRECTV doesn’t want you to do it, but you can. In response to some YouTube commenters, I produced this video showing the HS17 Genie 2 connected to a SWM-16. This video is pretty raw but that’s…
It was the new hotness in 2006, but the earth has gone around the sun 11 long times since then. I know it’s hard giving up an old friend, but sometimes you just have to let…
No.Even if you have a Genie DVR in the home you cannot pause live TV with an H25 receiver. However, there are some things you should probably know. What most people do as a workaround…
What you should be asking yourself is… when is “good enough,” good enough? Every so often DIRECTV comes under attack from the very enthusiasts who made it the success it is today. There are so…
If you’re an avid reader of this blog, you already know that DIRECTV will be ceasing all (or at least most) SD programming in 2019. More importantly, the round dish you’ve got now will probably stop…
Believe it or not it’s been four years since my review of DIRECTV’s then-new TV Apps. It’s tempting to say that not much has changed but actually there’s quite a bit. TV Apps started out as an…
DIRECTV’s new Genie 2, codenamed HS17, is just now seeping into some markets, while other people are still locked out. So it’s time to ask questions that will help you decide whether or not to wait…
Of course you want the latest and greatest stuff. That’s why you shop at Solid Signal. And when you’re talking about DIRECTV equipment, it’s all got that new AT&T logo. So if you want the latest…