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I stumbled across this today and it reminded me that when I got my first satellite receiver with PVR capability, it would only save files to an attached external drive, but it had no ethernet jack nor any other way to connect to the Internet. Even firmware updates had to be copied to a USB...

We don't have strong 5G signals here; even people who are paying for 5G can't use it here. And given the previous experience of a relative who bought Titanium LNB's (not the 5G filtered ones but a previous model with the big aluminum heat sink) only to find that they simply stopped working any...

I know this is a difficult signal to receive in any case because it is 16APSK and 4:2:2, so not all equipment can receive it, but I'm asking because it has always been fairly reliable and we can't get a good OTA signal on CBS. But last night and tonight there has been no signal there at...

Thanks, at least I know I'm not the only one who is getting nothing there. I appreciate the response!

I thought the CW was supposed to be moving from 91 W to 93 W, so I tried to move my 91 dish to 93 today and got zilch on 4109H 15000 SR (using the settings on Lyngsat's page for G35). This was between 2 and 3 PM Eastern this afternoon. Has anyone else had a problem getting them during the...

I am not really an electronics person. I can maybe replace a blown capacitor (sometimes) but that's about it. I do not understand digital circuits. So I have a question. In every modern TV, there is an LED display, and there are speakers. Now back in the old days of tube TV's you could get...

Depends on if you are content with watching a show once and then not ever being able to see it again, at least not conveniently. The point of recording something is that anything streaming can be gone tomorrow or next week or next month. As long as you have a recording you can watch it again...

Not using SiliconDust devices, perhaps, but there will just be too big a market of people who want to be able to record shows and skip commercials (as they have been doing for the past two or three decades) for the pirate box makers to ignore. I see this going one of four ways. One is that...

A new TV is fine if you feel like replacing a perfectly good ATSC1 TV just to get ATSC3, and if you are willing to watch TV at an appointed time, including all the commercials. I am not willing to do any of that. Particularly the "appointment television" thing. I can't even begin to express how...

The big question for me is will the new devices be able to internally (without the use of a "cloud" server) convert AC4 audio to 5.1 AC3. If not, then I have zero interest in the new box. And I will also have zero interest if they can't decrypt encrypted broadcasts. Sorry, but it's my opinion...

I must say I find it a bit funny, or maybe ironic, that a ham radio operator would be posting this, given that many hams have held similar attitudes toward non-hams that dabbled in any kind of technology. I am old enough to remember how contemptuously some hams viewed CB radio operators back in...

First of all I wrote this yesterday and thought I had posted it but when I came in today it is still showing as a draft. Sorry! This is what I wrote yersterday: Thanks, I did not know that. I got it to come in enough to see the tone and bars with the overlay showing both the primary and...

Anyone know of any reason the CW feed on G19 4080V is now showing nothing but tone and bars during the primetime hours? There are six channels on that mux and the first two were still showing what they were supposed to be showing but the "C" through "F" channels are all tone and bars. I...

Also don't overlook obstructions such as trees - I assume you have taken that into account, but this week is the week in the fall when the sun closely tracks the satellite arc so if you know what time the sun is (almost exactly) behind the satellite you are interested in, you can observe whether...