Best of the Blog 2017, Volume 5
It’s the lovely month of May (2017) at The Solid Signal Blog!
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STREAMING SATURDAY: Sports Options and Limitations
Are you interested in streaming sports to your TV? The sports packages for PlayStation Vue and DIRECTV show that sports streaming is not yet fully developed. Before we talk about what is the best streaming service…
NICE AND EASY: Are all the outputs on a DIRECTV receiver active at the same time?
Yes. You don’t get more nice and easy than that. If you want to run multiple TVs from the same receiver, or use something obsolete like a Slingbox or DVD recorder, it works just fine. Whether…
Best of the Blog 2017, Volume 4
Time to get serious with the best of April ’17.
DIRECTV releases 4K sports schedule
It’s going to be a busy few months for baseball fans. DIRECTV’s really going to town with 4K broadcasts of major league action, and they’ve released their schedule for the rest of the summer. All games…
Best of the Blog 2017, Volume 3
Spring into some great articles from Solid Signal.
HBO Free Preview for pretty much everyone
Game of Thrones Season 7. Even if you don’t like this show or have never seen it, chance are you’re at least marginally aware that the latest season is premiered last weekend on HBO. Basically every…
What is RF4CE?
If you have a Genie DVR or client, you know that it comes with a new remote. Sure, it’s smaller and looks a whole lot different, but it’s still a DIRECTV remote, right? It sure is, and it can…
What exactly is a “network hub” anyway?
“Hub.” For some reason it’s one of those terms that won’t go away. The term was used in the 1980s and 1990s for networking equipment, and lately DISH has been using it for the nodes that…
Best of the Blog 2017, Volume 2
There’s some surprisingly great stuff here!
Best of the Blog 2017, Volume 1
It’s a whole new year at The Solid Signal Blog!
DIRECTV MLB Extra Innings Free Preview
How’d you like that All-Star Game? Are things heating up for your favorite team? If you want more baseball action, you’re in luck: DIRECTV has a massive MLB Extra Innings Free Preview this weekend! You’ll get…
Learn how to filter your DIRECTV guide
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…
Best of the Blog 2016, Volume 12
The holidays brought plenty of presents in 2016!
Will DIRECTV ever stop launching satellites?
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…