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  1. DIRECTV Installation/MDU Discussion
    And you can aim a KaKu dish with the 'wrong' LNB (SWM or not) and then swap the LNB to the 'right' one, and the dish will still be aimed. Or vice versa. :coffee
  2. DIRECTV General Discussion
    Service call was for another issue besides the sports blackout. While my friend the installer was there he noticed another 'situation' and found out it 'fixed' the sports blackout screw ups. Unfortunately, it is not a legit D* fix for the problem. The installer didn't spoil the guy's fun...
  3. DIRECTV General Discussion
    An 'official' DirecTV installer (lettered van and everything!) recently told me he encountered a customer that had effectively solved his recurring blackout screw ups from DirecTV (or the Gods of sports, or whoever). The installer didn't turn the guy in, he just fixed a hinky KaKu LNB (reason...
  4. DIRECTV Installation/MDU Discussion
    Just had a fantastically good experience with a CSR in the access card department, it was very much appreciated. I also realize there are bad apples all over the D* system and it just makes me wish for, if not uniform excellent service, at least uniform mediocre service. I just hate getting...
  5. High Definition Displays
    A 4k curved screen would make a hell of a computer display for spreadsheets. :nono2:
  6. High Definition Displays
    Hate the new curved panels. Don't recommend them to folks who ask, and I would strongly prefer to not install them. Hate 'em, hate' em, hate 'em.
  7. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    Magnavox HDD DVD recorder will make an SD (NOT HD!!!) DVD if your kid was on the news with his record setting little league homerun. I had some Civil War re-enactors want B/W prints of their blip on the local news. Wound up freeze framing the footage and killing the color in the TV picture...
  8. DIRECTV General Discussion
    I can see some providers slapping 4K label on shows, and then compressing the snot out of data stream and negating what little benefit might be apparent on a 50" TV. What happened to "deep color" ??
  9. DIRECTV General Discussion
    And as noted above, let' push for more HD. Also, HD sets need to be consistently excellent for viewing angle, contrast, easy of use, color accuracy, tuner sensitivity for those of us still using OTA and screen brightness uniformity among other design standards. I live in a top 100 market and...
  10. DIRECTV General Discussion
    So, where are the 120-160" TVs we need to watch 4K so our feet don't touch the screen when we recline in our Lazy Boys ??
  11. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    I have a self installed KaKu, same for a SWM-16 and a SolidSignal HR-44. DirecTV has been here for my first HR-20, and maybe a couple HR-21s. Love the HR-44, and without a solid assurance from DirecTV they would roll a truck with mine on it, I could not take the chance of a refurb HR34. Even...
  12. TV Show Talk
    The 5 Mrs. Buchanans Space Rangers My Mother the Car My Living Doll Fireball XL5
  13. DIRECTV General Discussion
    FWIW, I have an AM21 connected to my HR44 and it works fine. Love the '44, the faster response is great, and I never seem to run out of hard drive space.
  14. TV Show Talk
    The Cops sound technician was wearing body armor, but the round entered under (or through?) his arm. The sound man was entering the Wendys and the robber was trying to exit via the same door. Apparently the robber aimed his Airsoft gun at the police men and they opened up on him. There is...
  15. DIRECTV General Discussion
    I wish there was a way I could lock the aspect setting on my customers TVs and satellite equipment. I get calls every week: I don't know what channel I'm on I can't read the news crawl Everybody is too fat Everybody is too skinny. Same answer every time, Remember that ONE BUTTON I told...
  16. DIRECTV General Discussion
    Somebody fibbed ?!?!?!?! OMG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :coffee
  17. DIRECTV General Discussion
    There might be a fairly sizeable beam above the doorway, it could be a solid mass of wood in there. Sometimes a stud finder can be confusing in such cases. I have drilled from the outside of a house into an interior wall and a couple of studs past the wall is the furthest it seems possible to...
  18. General DISH™ Discussion
    Don't know if it worked, but a guy bought 3 from me to experiment with as directional microphones for a church. He was trying to mic 2 pulpits and a choir area from the back mezzanine area. Don't know if they would be directional enough for that.
  19. DIRECTV General Discussion
    If I am tasked with rebuilding the darn thing, I'm a only be gonna doing it ONCE! Crikey, people everywhere think I lead a life of idle luxury sipping Long Island Ice Teas during the long weeks between TV jobs!! :coffee
  20. DIRECTV General Discussion
    Oofda. What a headache looming (someday) for my SeniorTV head I maintain. Might suggest to management they start saving their nickels for a whole new head instead of an eventual refit of the cabinets with all HD receivers and modulators. BTW, do we have compact, affordable ATSC or QAM HD...
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