Recent content by medic-dan

I won't miss WHDH or WLVI. NBC programming is garbage in my book. All WLVI shows is Maury. I know DirecTV will cave in at some point, but I wish they wouldn't.

The "mothers" episode was great. Probably the best in a long time. Unfortunately, the season finale was, in my opinion, garbage.

AHC - aka the American Heroes Channel should be called the Adolf Hitler Channel. That's what 99% of the programming is about.

Out in the Boston market

My tax in Massachusetts is 38 cents, that must be on the $6 receiver fee. But, we also get a DIRECTV Massachusetts DBS Gross Revenue Tax which in my case is $4.20. The cable companies squawked a few years ago that they had to pay taxes that satellite didn't. This was the result. I only have...

Caught this show last night. It was very good, something like a fast paced Sherlock Holmes mystery and reminds me a bit of "Numbers." With Judd Hirsch being in it - still doing his taking care of the "boys" and "in the kitchen" routine, it feels very familiar. I'll watch it again.

Been with DirecTV since '98. Moved (really - movers connection) a few times, the install for that was handled quickly. In general I have no complaints. Hardware and service issues have been almost non-existent. I've had a few boxes upgraded and an LNB fail once. That was fixed the next day...

Mine gets warm but not that hot.

Right now I pay for it. There are no discounts on the DirecTV service that I can see, just the $5 off of Verizon. I'll give them a call, it can't hurt - I hope!

Yes, Verizon handles the billing now.

Does DirecTV still offer the $10 off for "autopay?" I'm out of contract and even though it's only a small savings it will add up. I'm bundled with Verizon for DSL/phone. According to them I get $5 off my phone plan for being bundled. I figure I can unbundle, go on the autopay, and save...

The first receiver charge is waived. You only pay for the additional.

Thanks for the information guys. I guess I'll see about upgrading the H20. The things a monster anyways. I'm using Servio as well. I'm using an old R51 Thinkpad, 1.6mhz, 750mb ram, with a 250gb drive running XP as the server. At my house I have a Panasonic Viera TV and it plays very nicely...

My parents have two non-DVR receivers, an H20-100 and and H21, yup from around 2007 and 2008. The H21 is on the network and can access a DLNA server without any problem via ethernet. The H20 has no ethernet port. It's also a non-SWM setup. Can I use a CCK to get the H20 on the network OR...

The cable companies have done a good job of providing a lot of misinformation. I've had DirecTV since about '97. I can count, on one hand, the number of times in the past 2 years that I've lost service. Even then, it's usually for a short time (extremely heavy rains) and I can usually switch...