WeaKnees Blog

Switching an infrared (IR) remote to work via radio frequency (RF) has a pretty huge benefit: It’s not limited to line of site, but can go through walls, floors, cabinet doors, into closest, etc. So the receiver (in this case a DVR) doesn’t need to be sitting out roughly where the TV is.
For years, we’ve [...]

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If you’re a DirecTV DVR user, you know the value of having two satellite feeds to your DVR: you can record two shows at once. The new DirecTV SWM products make wiring this a lot easier - in many cases you can just use existing cable wiring since you can send up to eight feeds [...]

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(Note: that’s not “an” SWM, since it’s generally read as “swim,” at least, in these parts.)
A customer just purchase a SWM from us, and he plans to solve a slightly different problem than we’ve previously encountered: he couldn’t get KCET (our local PBS station) in HD, since DirecTV doesn’t carry that signal in HD, even [...]

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We’ve just gotten the AM21 in stock. This is a peripheral unit that will tune digital OTA signals. It works with the H21, the HR21 (all models), and the HR21 Pro. It is the same color and look (black and shiny) and footprint as the H21 and HR21, but not the HR21 Pro.
In this picture, [...]

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Back in early March, we wrote about our first shipment of the HR21 Pro and its bells and whistles. Those boxes flew out the door.
After a month-long wait, we have finally received our next large shipment of the DIRECTV HR21 Pro from DIRECTV. All but a handful are going out the door today, so if [...]

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