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By the time we started seeing cable-specific programming, cable was well into middle age; the cable industry was young back in the early '50s. My dad worked on the first cable system in Western Canada way back in 1953...

Thanks, Chip - that makes sense.

I'm trying to troubleshoot an issue with our DirecTV boxes. We have an H44-500 Genie in the living room, and a C41-700 mini-Genie in the den. My wife complains that the closed captioning in the living room does not work well. So, I wanted to swap the 2 boxes to see if the issue is a box problem...

With an RV it's pretty simple: once we are level, and the slideouts are out, I just press one more button and the dome works its magic - within minutes it finds the correct satellite and we're watching TV! I suspect that might change when DirecTV finally does away with its SD signals - I'll most...

Other than the possible loss of your local channels there should be no problems. We take our 2 receivers from the house every time we go out in our RV - the receivers have worked everywhere from coast to coast and border to border, including up into Canada.

I've got a Roku TV - where do I find the NASA channel?

It seems the emphasis is on people who have a steady, full-time broadband capability - which usually means a hard-wired connection of some type. But there is a relatively large number of users out there who rely on a cell signal for their internet connection. A lot of those people are mobile...

Thanks for clarifying that - we are, indeed, going to have to upgrade to either the WineGard Trav'ler or the RFMogul dish. Both are open-dish units, and both are about the same price - I've heard stories that RFMogul is easier to repair on-site but we'll make that decision in probably 6 months...

What I've heard over the years is that if you have 2 receivers connected to a single dish both receivers can only receive a signal from the same satellite - presumably because the dish can't switch between satellites without interrupting the signal. Is that no longer true?

I know we can't predict what the cost will be 2 years hence, but to make an informed comparison I can certainly use today's non-contract pricing for each package, to compare Dish to DirecTV. That's what I'm trying to do...

Greetings - we have been DirecTV subscribers for about 25 years now, but we're starting to investigate the possibility of switching to Dish. Our current setup is as follows: we have a Genie master receiver in our living room, and a Genie slave in the den. This gives us HD channels on each TV -...