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…
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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…
It’s looking good for 4K in 2018. DIRECTV just announced their 4K schedule and it’s looking stronger than ever. They’ll be airing the BBC documentary Planet Earth: Blue Planet II over eight nights starting January 20, on channel…
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…
There’s been a video floating around the internet about a woman who was “scammed” when a door-to-door representative switched her from DIRECTV to DISH, and she said she wasn’t informed. In the end, she was switched…
WRONG TOOL: Your hand. Finger tight is not tight enough for most coax connections. The only (possible) exception is the connection between the receiver and the final leg of coax. For connecting to splitters and…
Does this receiver look familiar? It’s the DIRECTV D12, the last standard-definition-only receiver ever made by DIRECTV. Believe it or not, it only went out of service for commercial customers last year and actually in most…
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…
You can’t get it anywhere else. DIRECTV is airing an exclusive schedule of sports in 4K and HDR this spring, and you won’t be able to find this content on any other carrier! To start with,…
Who knows what the future will bring? In 2017 we saw the growing dominance of DIRECTV NOW, the coming of DIRECTV’s Genie 2 and Hopper 3, and we finally saw Apple try to take back some…
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…
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…