Recent content by ckjackson

Ok, just looked at my setup again and am perplexed. He disconnected my old Zinwell 4x8 but its still plugged in and powered up with maybe the OTA in the attic attached and an out going to the hub of the house sat in. When he brought the new Zinwell WB6x8 i have the 4 lines coming in from the...

Do they have to be 2 switches that are qualified for the new MPEG 4 frequencies? Just curious cause when they installed my upgraded MPEG 4 dish and gave me new HD boxes and HD DVR boxes they put in a new 4x8 box and ran the power for it off my old 4x8 box that was installed 3 years ago by them...

really? i know Terk gets guff for their cheap OTAs but my installer was set on it for me to buy off Amazon.....and color of labels has nothing to do with durability or performance? Are all the Zinwell 6x16s the same purple label or does this differ pure manufacturer's batch and reseller...

Hey Iceberg, your pic looks like a huge decisionmaker....which 6x16 multiswitch would you buy? or is there one with 16+ outputs?

AHH gotcha...thanks. Yeah I don't need Directv Para Todos but its interesting it carries that.

Pardon my ignorance but what the heck is a "wing satellite"? My situation is I have the installer coming over on the 13th of Aug with a free HD DVR and I need more inputs than my current 8 outs. So the Terk which is most expensive isn't worthy even though it says the its Directv...

How much do those compatible external hard drives cost?

Hey there....Newbie here in dire need of expert advice. I have tried ask.com, google, AVS Forum and cannot get anything decisive so why did i waste so much time without seeing the light and coming to the experts here? For shame I say but now I'm here. I need to buy a 6x16 multiswitch to use...

Hey there, newbie here. Have a question about Multiswitches for Directv. I guess I should start a thread in the DTV forum. Thanks for all the future knowledge to be passed to me