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…
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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…
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…
Independence Day wasn’t the only thing to celebrate back in July of ’16.
Some good stuff was brewing in the summer of ’16.
May 2016 was a good time to be alive. Take a stroll back there.
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…
Take a look back at the spring of ’16 and you’ll be surprised what you find!
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…
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…
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…
Some of the blog’s best work can be found in March, 2016
Believe it or not it’s been four years since my review of DIRECTV’s then-new TV Apps. It’s tempting to say that not much has changed but actually there’s quite a bit. TV Apps started out as an…
Check out what we were doing back in early ’16.