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  1. DIRECTV General Discussion
    Part of the problem is that the streaming business model assumes dirt-cheap throw-away endpoints. DVRs are too complex and costly. At least that was the thinking and will probably win until the bandwidth issues worsen. Along with the tradeoff to **** trick-play one can add lower quality. Example...
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    The bigger picture is that the industry and business model have huge problems growing worse by the minute. On the one hand technology continues to roll forward (4K and yes, someday 8K) and the business model for putting up enough satellites for meaningful 4K is not there. The opposite even...
  3. DIRECTV General Discussion
    Gigabit is mostly a marketing tool. Agree that it is unnecessary in a home - today. But it really doesn't cost much more. The FTTH provider near me offers 50, 100, 150, 500, 1000. The incremental cost to upgrade diminishes rapidly per mb. It's all the same infrastructure, they're just...
  4. DIRECTV General Discussion
    They do the same kind of thing on Wall Street for automated trading. Going so far as to rent space in a building right beside (or even in) an internet exchange (backbone hub). Fractions of a millisecond matter to some things.
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    Spinning rust to solid state was a revolutionary change and conveniently something that is a standalone upgrade to most things. I have a 2012 Mac Pro. Its the single 6-core 3.33Ghz Xeon. Other than a lot more cores the newest stuff isn't really much faster. Since I'm not trying to edit 4K video...
  6. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    It is unfortunately confusing. The SATA connector was not originally intended to have an external form. The internal SATA shape is designed for hot-plug, at least in enterprise uses (and BTW is also used by SAS drives). Then somebody decided it would be cool to externalize SATA and they...
  7. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    Technically, SATA and eSATA are electrically the same but they are physically different. See https://www.amazon.com/Tripp-Lite-eSATA-Transition-P952-003/dp/B00119P6SU The "SATA port", as an external connector, is an eSATA port. A "SATA port" should only exist for internal connections and is...
  8. DIRECTV General Discussion
    The only reason we upgraded our iPhone 6s(s) to XRs was because we weren't going to replace the battery for the 3rd time! Like computers I'm of the opinion that phones have basically plateaued for hardware features and I'm fine with that. LTE bandwidth is just fine for us, we don't need 5G...
  9. DIRECTV General Discussion
    Never might be a bit strong. Unlikely maybe. They don't tear up anything anymore - electric/gas for my new build was 400+ feet of horizontal boring. My new home is about 10 miles out from the edge of Minneapolis/St Paul metro. Before we built the DSL (CenturyLink) here was ~1.5mb! Only because...
  10. DIRECTV General Discussion
    Advice taken & appreciated. I'll add that to my toy wishlist.
  11. DIRECTV General Discussion
    THAT is impressive. Always appreciate people/companies that solve problems rather than make excuses.
  12. DIRECTV General Discussion
    Oh that is bloody disappointing.
  13. DIRECTV General Discussion
    I wish I understood how the same product can produce such vastly varying results. Every time I bother to research the lip-sync problem with Roku 4 I find many people having the same problem. Picture quality is acceptable but the lip-sync problem is not. I've had the Roku for a few years and no...
  14. DIRECTV General Discussion
    I've tried a few streaming channels including Amazon Prime on a Roku 4. Picture quality is ok vs DirecTV but trick-play of any kind sucks. It may be just this particular model of box but lip-sync is terrible. I'm also completely unimpressed by the programming libraries available. Amazon Prime -...
  15. DIRECTV General Discussion
    It isn't just outsourcing. Its idiot corporation with brain-dead operational systems. It starts with the need to talk to a body at all. And only gets worse from there. My recent experience was mind-boggling. Startups do better on their first day.
  16. DIRECTV General Discussion
    They failed TWICE to do a move/install for me last November/December. Never showed up and never contacted me. While spending hours on the phone sorting it out I was told that they are "transitioning systems" and that is supposedly part of the problem. It seemed to me that they were touching no...
  17. DIRECTV General Discussion
    Yawn. Typical corporate marketing BS. So they will eventually get to the point of many other providers? I'm sure there are many younger types who they must be targeting but I'm not interested in their streaming junk. I've got a Roku 4 that I use only when I absolutely must - a few series on...
  18. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    Yeh, I've seen this too. Every time a simple menu restart has returned everything for me. I knew my problem-free period couldn't last.
  19. DIRECTV General Discussion
    I have a Roku 4 that I rarely use. 100mb service (1TB/mo cap). Its fine for straight streaming but any trick play is unsatisfying in comparison. No doubt due to both hardware and software limitations both in the device and at the server end as well as the pipe between. What is going to happen...
  20. DIRECTV General Discussion
    I predict this will suck. The price is misleading. Take your current viewing habits, guesstimate the amount of data that represents per month, then look at your internet service. Almost certain you're going to have to get a much larger internet service package just to get the cap raised. Care to...
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