Recent content by randyk47

Nope. In fact we don't have a TV in the bedroom. Mrs. K says that room is for sleeping and other things, not watching TV. ;)

No real benefit other than single wire. It's the reason I switched myself over 15 months ago. I guess I could add more TV's now but three TV's for two people seems plenty.

I noticed it on the local channels until they switched over to local HD broadcast....for awhile they'd drop out of HD and do local news/shows in SD. Slowly but surely all the locals have gone over totally HD and even their weather alert "crawlers" don't flip back to SD now. It really never...

A couple of years ago DirecTV basically refused to install a new dish on my house. I won't go through all the circumstances other than to say that to get a good line of sight the dish had to be very high up and required standing on a very steep roof some 30 feet over our driveway. There was no...

I'm not saying this is the OP's problem but neighbor had a similar problem with his Vizio and it turned out that there was some glitch in the remote coding that was turning on the sleep mode on his TV. Just happened it was every 30 minutes and we found it by using the TV's remote to access the...

Is this the same $1000, now minus the returned receiver, that you were negotiating about with DirecTV 4 years ago?

Personally I've not had any problems with my HDMI connections on any of my receivers. My neighbor, on the other hand, has had trouble and he too has gone to component. In talking to him it seems it might be that he and his teenage son are forever messing with his system. I wonder if HDMI...

I wouldn't bother with the receivers but I'd leave the existing dish in place. If it's a good dish, properly mounted, aimed, and all the wiring in place getting DirecTV service would be a very easy "plug and play" with new receivers. If not then it's a pretty simple install to potentially swap...

But what a waste of gin and vodka! Don't use the good stuff! :)

Most probably your receivers are actually leased and not owned. DirecTV's receivers have been, with few exceptions, leased units since early 2006 so any "purchase" after then was actually an up front lease fee and not an outright buy of the unit. You'd have to double check with DirecTV to see...

My experience, at least in Virginia, was not the rain on the dish but how heavy it was raining and/or the presence of heavy thunderstorms. In the four years I had service in Northern Virginia I can only remember one snow storm that actually impacted reception and it was coming down so heavily...

Have to agree. I've been up and running at this address for six years and the first four plus I never saw a DirecTV tech. The previous owner had the house deliberately cabled and organized for DirecTV when the house was built. I simply fell in on the existing structure and installed what were...

I have this feeling, and I'm only guessing, that DirecTV is only one of his financial problems. While $1,300 isn't "chicken feed" it isn't, in and of itself, enough to file bankruptcy. It may be awhile before he and DirecTV get connected again.

I understand "stuff happens" and these are hard times for many folks. I don't know your particular situation but from your own postings here and other sites you, by your own admission, have had more than a few problems with debt and bills for what appears to be several years. I wish you the...

There were a few, and I stress few, of us that were able to buy H-20's right after they were introduced but before DirecTV went to basically all units as leased. These are rare and I'd be more than suspicious of any H-2x/HR-2x series being resold as an "owned" unit. The HR-21 Pro would be the...