Sitting there watching TV, and suddenly the screen saver comes on? You’re not alone. This is a strange behavior that has plagued DIRECTV receivers for over ten years. It’s come and go, and it seems like…
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Over, practically before it began. Hearst stations reapppeared overnight in over 25 cities for DIRECTV customers, a sign that a new contract has been signed. The 5-day long blackout was resolved before most new programs came back from…
Your Solid Signal team has been hard at work creating a tool to help you find just the right mount for your TV. There are literally thousands of TVs represented in this tool, all with…
4K is coming… it’s just a question of when. I think everyone’s a little annoyed that there aren’t more live 4K channels, but there just… aren’t. DIRECTV leads the way with three live 4K channels, but…
Well, it sort of depends. If you’re using older DIRECTV equipment, you might be getting a bit nervous that it might stop working in the future. DIRECTV says that standard definition service is going away…
It’s rare, but it happens. You get a message on your Genie DVR saying it needs to change channels to record something. The Genie DVR has five tuners, but every so often it does run out….
I’ve talked about this before just a few months ago, but I think it’s important to keep saying it, If you have a SWM-enabled DIRECTV dish, you can’t expand its capacity without getting up on the roof….
The yearly price increase tango has been with us over a decade. It’s outlasted DIRECTV’s stewardship by three different companies and it shows no sign of stopping. Surely you’ve already heard that prices on DIRECTV service…
It’s not just you. Many people have reported that their playlists are very slow to respond, or they get an empty list for up to five seconds on their DIRECTV DVRs. This seems to boil down…
Now there’s something to be thankful for. DIRECTV has opened up pretty much every premium channel for this weekend, so get started bingeing on Westworld and all of the other great premium content out there. Recordings you make during…
DIRECTV adds another channel in high definition… Oxygen, which targets female older millennials, gen-X, and younger baby boomers, has finally gone HD on DIRECTV on channel 251. There. I know, this channel isn’t terribly interesting for…
Yes, but it isn’t easy. The Alaska-Hawaii dish is the preferred choice, in fact it’s the only one DIRECTV will install. It’s 30% bigger than the average dish, and you have to buy just the parts you want…
DIRECTV is experiencing an outage on 8 national HD channels. If you are affected, you can either wait for the fix (shouldn’t take long) or switch to SD channels for those ones that are out….
Easy answer: you can’t. With the holidays coming up you’re going to need to think of something else to get that hard-to-buy-for person on your list. DIRECTV has no gift card program and you can’t sign…
DISH took the ambitious step today of rolling out YouTube videos to its Hopper 3 DVR, making it the only pay-TV DVR with YouTube capabilities. DISH’s Hopper 3 is now a fairly full-featured streamer, with Netflix,…