It’s looking good for baseball this spring, especially if you have DIRECTV. The 2018 pricing has just been announced, and it’s a pleasant surprise when you look at the fact that pretty much everything else…
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Most people don’t even know that DIRECTV offers slow motion on its DVRs. For some reason, DIRECTV chose not to include a dedicated slow motion button on its original remotes, and its new Genie Remotes have even fewer…
This hot. DIRECTV’s SWM16 multiswitch is a miracle of modern technology, but it’s not a miracle of thermal engineering. It runs hot, too hot to touch in some cases, and that’s perfectly normal. It can run 10-15 degrees…
It’s not something you see every day… at least not any more. Many a DIRECTV veteran has a dozen of these B-Band converters in a box in the garage, but if you’ve been with DIRECTV fewer…
Get those DVRs ready because it’s another Starz Free Preview Weekend! Starting now and going through Monday, January 22, it’s your chance to check out Counterpart, the new show with the excellent J.K Simmons as a bureaucrat who…
As your equipment ages, you may notice that it has gotten noisier. This can be due to a lot of different things, and while there are some you can fix, there are other things you…
Come on, you know you love DIRECTV’s Genie Remote. Maybe you were a doubter at first, but it’s easy to use, easy to hold, and gives you just what you need. So you want to have a…
Today was the blog team’s time in the Central Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center, which is where they keep the big TVs. There were in fact an ungodly number of big TVs, but mostly…
Nothing like settling in to an evening of televised entertainment… courtesy of DIRECTV. If you have DIRECTV service at home, there’s no reason not to put a DIRECTV dish on your RV as well. DIRECTV’s rules…
Looking back at old articles, I remember when DIRECTV was adding HD channels like crazy. Local markets were still furiously converting to HD in 2012, and only about half of the channels offered by DIRECTV were…
What a nightmare. Back when a decent-sized flat panel could set you back $10k or more, many a proud owner dreaded the day when he would come home and find the words “Now Playing” or some…
Bigger just has to mean better, right? That’s not the case with the 1.2 meter DIRECTV dish designed for use in Alaska and Hawaii. It’s quite a behemoth, so before you think about using it to improve your…
If you use wireless Genie clients, listen up Forbes is reporting that these devices are incredibly easy to hack and that your whole network could be vulnerable. Let’s dig into that claim and let’s talk about why you…
Those lucky folks who got the most recent update for DIRECTV Genie are still working out the kinks. This is going to be a very long and slow process for DIRECTV customers as their feedback is…
The biggest change to Genie DVRs since 2011 is coming but like a slow freight train, it’s going to make you wait. This promises to be the slowest rollout of a major feature ever from DIRECTV,…