DIRECTV app allows more offloading
Because not everyone has unlimited data. It’s funny how the balance seems to shift in the world of cell phone and tablet viewing. Of course in the 2000s no one had enough bandwidth to stream. That’s…
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Best of the Blog 2016, Volume 9
There’s some good stuff to see as we round the corner into fall.
Will a name change save Viacom?
Earlier this year, Viacom announced that the Spike channel would be rebranded as “The Paramount Network.” This is of course, not to be confused with the “United Paramount Network” or UPN, a broadcast network from the…
Twin Peaks bombs? No, it’s Nielsen who is bombing
Is the new version of Twin Peaks a success or a failure? Much like the show itself, it’s hard to tell what’s real. An unusually insightful article in Buzzfeed lays out the arguments, but doesn’t get to the real heart of…
Best of the Blog 2016, Volume 8
Check out these articles including our first ever dueling-fall-previews.
YES YOU CAN use the HS17 Genie 2 with a SWM-16 multiswitch
DIRECTV doesn’t want you to do it, but you can. In response to some YouTube commenters, I produced this video showing the HS17 Genie 2 connected to a SWM-16. This video is pretty raw but that’s…
Isn’t it time to retire that old DIRECTV receiver?
It was the new hotness in 2006, but the earth has gone around the sun 11 long times since then. I know it’s hard giving up an old friend, but sometimes you just have to let…
Best of the Blog 2016, Volume 7
Independence Day wasn’t the only thing to celebrate back in July of ’16.
Best of the Blog 2016, Volume 6
Some good stuff was brewing in the summer of ’16.
Best of the Blog 2016, Volume 5
May 2016 was a good time to be alive. Take a stroll back there.
NICE AND EASY: Can you pause live TV with a DIRECTV H25?
No.Even if you have a Genie DVR in the home you cannot pause live TV with an H25 receiver. However, there are some things you should probably know. What most people do as a workaround…
Best of the Blog 2016, Volume 4
Take a look back at the spring of ’16 and you’ll be surprised what you find!
GREAT TIP: Get your tailgate TV set up faster!
If you tailgate every weekend, there’s a great way to get that dish up and running quickly. You’ve probably already read our tutorial on aiming your dish with Solid Signal’s SATLOOKLITE meter, but here’s a way…
Is this all “round dish hysteria?”
If you’re an avid reader of this blog, you already know that DIRECTV will be ceasing all (or at least most) SD programming in 2019. More importantly, the round dish you’ve got now will probably stop…
OPINION: More evidence that Nielsen is clueless
Over the long weekend I happened upon this article on DigitalTrends. with quite a proclamation. It stopped me in my tracks, and in fact the entire article was built around the sort of wink-wink, man-bites-dog kind of journalism…