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  1. DIRECTV General Discussion
    FIOS has a similar breakdown, and it's accurate. That's because the two-year agreement comes with a two-year price lock for EVERYTHING except whatever taxes your state creates or changes in that two-year time frame. It's accurate to within a dollar or two. DirecTV's is guaranteed not to be...
  2. DIRECTV General Discussion
    Caulk it closed. You'll be fine.
  3. DIRECTV General Discussion
    1. Yep. 2. I find the FIOS DVR is better overall. It's response is instantaneous, and there is no unexpected lag when using the remote. The FIOS DVR has a few more quirks and doesn't do as much. It's a basic DVR. But what it does it does well. I agree with the FIOS remote issue, you have...
  4. DIRECTV General Discussion
    Well, the 30 second skip on D* DVRs is secret too. So are all the fancy keywords you can use in autorecord. I understand where you're coming from, but it's not much of a secret. My installer asked if I wanted native mode or not. My TV just had the single 2 second pause when changing...
  5. DIRECTV General Discussion
    You just access the service menu -- pretty easy. And the fact you chose native does appear in the regular GUI, and you can switch out of native without going back to the service menu. I had native turned on, but turned it off as I couldn't find any notable difference in PQ yet the channel...
  6. Internet Streaming Services
    Physics. And I read the patent. Isolation is not mentioned at all in the patent, and the fact they use the word "array" all the time strongly implies that each element isn't designed to get the signal on its own. There are several antenna arrays, and each array is further divided into groups...
  7. Internet Streaming Services
    Thanks for doing this! I was going to pull up their patents this weekend, but you beat me to it. They work exactly the way I thought they would work. The antenna is an array (it's in the title of the patent), and each element within it is addressable. That's not really a new idea. But the...
  8. Internet Streaming Services
    But they're not engineered correctly! Since no care is taken to actively isolate the antennas from each other, and they are all trying to receive the same exact signal, they are by definition an antenna array. The antennas, even if they could somehow work individually, would have to be at...
  9. Internet Streaming Services
    They could license it to cell phone manufacturers, too. Currently the entire back of the HTC One is one giant honking antenna. It would also prevent iPhone users from holding their phone wrong.
  10. Internet Streaming Services
    You could also spend money investigating cold fusion or the existence of unicorns, but I'm sure you'd come to the same conclusion. It's a fraud. (At least I HOPE that's your conclusion. :) ) That antenna isn't large enough nor is it oriented in the correct way to receive both UHF and VHF...
  11. DIRECTV General Discussion
    First, you responded to a really old thread. My state is stuck in NEC 2008 NFPA 70, BTW, along with several other states. Installers are supposed to check the local building codes first, as each town is allowed to make their own tweaks to the NEC, but I'm sure none of the installers do that...
  12. DIRECTV General Discussion
    The scam-ish parts are: 1. You can't cancel it once it starts, not even for a partial refund. 2. D* doesn't ask you when you sign up if you want to auto-renew or not. 3. New customers who get it for free are also signed up as auto-renew. Many of them were not told they have to call and...
  13. DIRECTV General Discussion
    I've had e-mail bills get rejected as spam, so they never showed up in my inbox. I've also had a company use autopay to make a $10000 withdrawal instead of a $100.00 withdrawal. Of course, that exceeded the credit limit, which caused a host of other charges and fees to appear, and it took a...
  14. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    Not generally true. I have no problems doing this with FIOS or my Tivo, and they and D* all have the same guide data provider (Tribune). I've got MNF and SNF set as regular (not manual) series recordings, and they are working just fine. FIOS even lists it as a "live" event and not "new". I...
  15. DIRECTV General Discussion
    A bill represents what you CURRENTLY owe, a separate notice states what you're GOING TO owe. But yeah, never enroll in autopay and request PAPER copies of your bills because they're not as easy to ignore.
  16. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    Yes you can, but your recordings won't play. If the Genie doesn't reformat it, just download the free tool from the hard drive mfr, connect it to your PC, and format it that way first. You could probably even just do a quick format using Windows or Mac OS -- that'll get the Genie to recognize...
  17. Cable TV Discussion
    There's no law guaranteeing network neutrality here in the U.S. The FCC has put out guidelines and a few rules, but many claim the FCC lacks the authority to do even that. CBS can do whatever they want.
  18. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    My parents love their DVR, but they never have more than 2 or 3 season passes/series links at a time. They just individually select shows they might want to watch later. They never have more than 3 or 4 shows that they're interested in during a season. They watch most of their TV live, they...
  19. DIRECTV General Discussion
    Nope, I've just been in too many lawsuits. I don't go looking for them, they just find me. Two patent lawsuits + one nasty one against a cable company + two other small claims cases. Luckily, I have friends and family members who are lawyers so I can ask them questions like this without...
  20. DIRECTV General Discussion
    "Act of God" is a legal term that covers all natural disasters that could not be avoided or prevented through reasonable care or foresight. If you ask a non-lawyer what it means, especially a CSR, they won't know. I asked my lawyer. It actually can be defined by local statutes and can vary...
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