Don’t fall for those overpriced monstrosities. This is our Installer Series HDMI cable. It gives you everything you’ll need for today’s HDTV installations, and it actually supports all the advanced features of the HDMI 1.4 specification. Yet,…
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This document is available in PDF format! Click here to download! It doesn’t seem like so much to ask… the volume buttons on the remote should control the volume on the TV, right? If you are installing a…
Westinghouse. Zenith. Emerson. Magnavox. Sylvania. Acoustic Research. These are names you may remember from your youth, and every single one is now just a trademark owned by some other company you’ve never heard of. Most of…
Thanks to Signal Labs member Alebob911 for photography. This document is available in PDF format! Click here to view or download! We showed it to you at an exclusive CES event. In fact, that’s a picture taken from that…
Leave it to signal labs member and intrepid satellite watcher Sixto to find the stuff DIRECTV wants to stay hidden. He has uncovered evidence that 8 more HD channels are testing right now. Of course…
If there was one thing on prominent display at CES this year, it was televisions. Every size was shown from the tiny 7″ models at the RCA booth (and others) to the massive 110″ displays that…
Today’s trip took us to the central hall of CES, where the big manufacturers had the biggest displays of the whole show. We weren’t surprised to see the familiar names, but there were a few that…
Here at CES 2013, we have been focusing on the Cobalt, the lower-priced product in the Darbee line. The Darblet is still the top of the line, though, and it’s available today! We’re also premiering our newest “Hands On”…
Cobalt. It’s the new lower-priced video processor from the people who brought you the Darblet, and only Solid Signal has it for pre-order. We were invited to a private meeting with the folks from DarbeeVision and they…
We weren’t there first. That’s true. But several bloggers were invited in to for an exclusive look at the HR44 Genie DVR, the latest and greatest from DIRECTV. No other site is going to give you…
We weren’t expecting it. DIRECTV has had a very small footprint at CES in previous years. Not since 2006 have they had any significant show floor presence. However, tucked into a corner of the show floor,…
The next generation is here! We have heard that DarbeeVision, maker of the popular Darblet device, are planning on showing their Cobalt device at CES 2013. The Cobalt will be a lower-end version of the Darblet,…
If you’ve been thinking about using your 2011 or 2012 Samsung Smart TV as an RVU client, you might be asking, “how to I get things like the playlist to show up?” It’s true, the…
Search. Let me tell you something. I’m smart-TV’d up. Oh yes. I have a Samsung Smart TV, a Smart Blu-ray player with the same app interface as the TV, a DIRECTV receiver with Pandora and…
It’s another feature you weren’t really aware of. Those four colored buttons on the remote. A lot of remotes have colored buttons on them. In Europe they’ve been the rage for decades, and they’ve been on…