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  1. Tech Talk - Gadgets, Gizmos and Technology
    Amazon really needs to give us more options on 'Alexa' keywords or alert the media / commercial producers to not use 'Alexa'. I've noticed recently she's not as sensitive to the TV audio for some reason.
  2. Tech Talk - Gadgets, Gizmos and Technology
    Of course, Amazon doesn't have the delivery fleet (yet), but I think FedEx / UPS should equip selected trucks to drive to a neighborhood and release a dozen or so drones for short delivery / return for recharging and next package.
  3. Tech Talk - Gadgets, Gizmos and Technology
    Or less cats. (and we're cat lovers)
  4. DIRECTV General Discussion
    I suspended a few weeks ago after 19+ years with D. Several factors, including the GenieGo and Mobile DVR / iPad app fiasco and changes since ATT in general caused me to look at my bill and my only alternative, local small cable company that I use for internet. Buying a Tivo Bolt+ and mini...
  5. Tech Talk - Gadgets, Gizmos and Technology
    From reports of last weeks attack, most of the devices were directly connected to the internet instead of behind a router / firewall.
  6. Tech Talk - Gadgets, Gizmos and Technology
    They know a lot more than you think they do. I just recently got a car loan from an online credit union and to sign the documents I had to answer 20 questions to confirm my identity. The questions included addresses that I or my spouse lived at 20+ years ago, car loans from 1990s, models of...
  7. DIRECTV General Discussion
    I'm certainly not from Boeing but I don't think the power output from the sat can solve the problem. The attenuation of Ka is too great from the rain / moisture in the clouds. And from many threads, rain fade has gotten worse in the last few years. Also, while the LNBs look 'plug and play'...
  8. DIRECTV Connected Home
    I carried a Vonage box (voip) several times to Germany many years ago to make free calls back to the US. While it may use a land-line style of handset, it's not a landline.
  9. DIRECTV General Discussion
    Back to the OPs question about rain fade, as a single data point here in North Carolina, north of Charlotte, I have to say rain fade is worse in the last 5 or so years. More intense storms, slowly moving storms. I've had RF when it wasn't raining at my house, but a small cell southwest of me...
  10. DIRECTV Connected Home
    I got a few hours on the Out of Home use of the iPad update today and I'll have to say it produced the playlist and started playbacks faster than it ever has. And didn't crash once.
  11. DIRECTV Connected Home
    Not sure why they discouraged you from the NAS approach. I've used it in both dual SWiM-16 and now a 16 and a 13 LNB combination with the internet connection into a HR34.
  12. DIRECTV Connected Home
    Nope, not on either the Dem or Rep convention show she had.
  13. DIRECTV Connected Home
    And that continues to be a pain with no 30 skip.
  14. DIRECTV Connected Home
    Yep, just checked it again and the logo is TBS on demand -- and no ads today!
  15. DIRECTV Connected Home
    Some are, some not. I haven't figured it out. This one definitely inserted ads that weren't in the playlist version.
  16. DIRECTV Connected Home
    I noticed this morning that the iPad app is inserting ads that cannot be ff or skipped when streaming from the playlist. The program was a TBS on-demand 'Samantha Bee' but the ads are not in the playlist recording. A new 'Feature'.
  17. DIRECTV Connected Home
    Thanks for the correction, guys. I was basing my comment on 2 recent posts that 1 had a 4k TV but RVU was only HD and 2 that the only way to get 4k from the sats was a HR54 / C61 combo.
  18. DIRECTV Connected Home
    The good news is the DECA doesn't use a tuner. The bad news is you'll need a C61 mini to get 4K from your 54. Which basically negates the need for the DECA unless you want regular programming. And you'll need a power supply for the DECA (it screws into the open coax) or a Broadband adapter -...
  19. Tech Talk - Gadgets, Gizmos and Technology
    Installing Fiber to the home is insanely expensive in established areas and the more dense areas provide a better return on wireless. Even that's hard to support a model of $50-75 per customer at Gigabit speeds.
  20. Tech Talk - Gadgets, Gizmos and Technology
    Probably the major factor is replacement costs of the CFLs. In the short time I used a reasonable quantity of them, I had to replace 4 or 5. So far with the LED replacements, I haven't had a single failure. The only CFLs I use now are in the Garage Door opener. And I'll eventually replace...
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