Recent content by Photog_7

I agree about the fuzzy pictures, but remember that most TV shows from the 80's weren't shot in HD or widescreen. The notable exception was the original Law & Order, which had the foresight to shoot in HDTV before most anybody owned the sets to watch it that way. It has certainly paid off...

I noticed Plex live TV on your source list in the picture you posted. Is this your source list for Channels DVR? I didn't see Plex offered as a provider in the Channels DVR provider list. I still have a lifetime subscription to Plex, and I'd love to be able to see and record the Plex live TV...

Channels is now my favorite DVR server. The instructions for integrating and combining various sources such as an HD Homerun tuner together with a subscription streaming service such as Philo are pretty vague and lack some important details. But the setup process is actually easy (once you...

Well, I made some progress! After some research, I found out that the stations I want are 39-40 miles away--not 25-30 like I thought before. So, I changed my old antenna, an Antennas Direct Clearstream 2V, for an Antennas Direct Clearstream 4V. The new antenna is basically the same antenna, but...

I think I'll try this filter route first. I'm on the east coast of Florida. It's very flat, and the towers are all due south of me. I imagine there are dozens of cell towers and radio stations between me and those TV towers. I liked the idea of a preamp until I realized I'd have to run another...

That's helpful to know. Do you definitely get more channels with that preamp? I know it sounds like a dumb question, but I didn't have great luck with the cheap junk WalMart preamp I tried in a different setup a couple of years ago. Maybe a good quality preamp with filters would help me get...

Can that be accomplished outside of the tuner?

That sounds very cool. I guess I'll have to set up a CHANNELS server alongside my PLEX server to compare them. For streaming channels, I mostly watch BritBox and Acorn mainly because British shows are often a bit cleaner than network TV, which I personally find pretty disgusting. But live...

Yes, I've really been thinking about that one, but I wonder if maybe the reality is that none of these outboard tuners can pick up as many channels as the built-in tuner on a good TV. Also, I wonder if maybe there's a splitter inside all these multi-tuner boxes that reduces the signal strength...

It seems amazing to me that I never see published test reports comparing tuner sensitivity. Instead, the reviews I've seen compare features and software interfaces, which mean nothing to me compared to knowing how good the tuner is in the first place. I'm 25-30 miles from the transmitters in my...

My experience with the streaming services has been that the picture is fine, but the DVR is not even close to my Wally's free DVR feature with an outboard 2 TB hard drive. I don't know about YouTube TV, but a lot of streaming providers make you pay extra for DVR and then force you to watch...

We too have been cutting way back on the news we watch, partly because it really upsets my wife. That was true even before this crisis. Just like I record everything else, I’ve started recording the news so I can just watch bits and pieces on delay. That way I can skip forward on the parts I...

Ya know, we’re very lucky to have Dish satellite TV service during this difficult time. Having traveled extensively overseas in 2005, I was amazed at how bad the satellite hardware and programming is in most countries outside of the USA. My wife and I are currently following the “stay at home...

Spend an hour watching watching 9605, then flip over to 9606 and watch that for a while. For a real thrill, watch 9582, and be sure to play the music from all 3 in Dolby! I submit those are not very popular channels with ANY dish subscribers. I seriously doubt they generate any revenue for Dish.

I think Dish should add it to the lineup. If nearly all subscribers are forced to pay for left-leaning CNN and MSNBC, seems only fair for Dish to offer both Fox and OAN for those on the right. I'm sure it would be more popular than some of the shopping channels and "public interest" channels...