Looking through the playlist, you get frustrated. There’s a lot of stuff there that no one is going to ever watch. What’s the fastest way to delete a program? Sure, you can use the “Mark and…
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I think we’ve all done it… you get delete happy and remove something from your playlist that shouldn’t have been deleted. You feel bad about it, but certainly it’s not as bad as it once was,…
Do you need an over-the-air TV amplifier? If so, Solid Signal has a way to turn any TV antenna into a powerful, Televes antenna! Want to know how to turn your TV antenna into something more…
For about 5 years DIRECTV sold a product called GenieGO. It never really lived up to its potential, but if you liked what it did, it was great. Quite simply, it put DIRECTV programs from your…
Satellite TV continues to be one of the more common home theater upgrades out there, but home theater installers often think they have to call DIRECTV for the installation. It’s just not true – if you…
The answer has been staring you in the face this whole time. If you need to change the input on your DIRECTV Ready TV, or if you just don’t want to drag out the TV remote,…
When you get your DIRECTV receiver set up, you will sometimes see the same channel in the guide up to four times. Four times? There’s the HD version, the SD version, and if you have an…
After all, it’s not like they have gears that get stuck. A DIRECTV receiver or DVR is basically a computer. In fact, they run a specialized version of Linux, the same operating system that runs…
If there are, I’ve never seen them in 13 years. You know what I’m talking about – often times there are hidden key combinations in software that reveal special information, tell you about the authors, or…
So the first thing is, there is such a thing as Shanghai Disneyland. Which, I didn’t even know that. Apparently it opens in about 3 weeks. And it looks uh-maaaa-zing. I found this video of someone…
The DIRECTV remote has a red button and an orange (R) button. You probably figured out in the first week you had DIRECTV service that the red button doesn’t record, even though, well, pretty much every…
When DIRECTV’s Mike White says that US pay television is a “mature market,” what he really means is that it’s not growing very quickly. Sure, people are growing up, getting homes and putting in pay TV,…
Yeah, that plus sign. The one in that little triangle that you see next to the channel name. Did you ever wonder what they’re trying to tell you there? The plus sign is actually kind of…