Sunday, September 13, 2009
Satellite TV Installation
On Friday, we got satellite TV installed in the 5th wheel. We decided to go with Directv. The technician showed up this morning about 9am. First he set up the dish and tripod and using his expensive satellite finder homed it in on the proper satellite. Next he installed the cables and ran them into the trailer using flat wire adapters. The adapters go through a window opening and then you can close (almost) the window. Next we went inside to set up the satellite receiver/DVR box. Again, this only took a few minutes to make up the inside satellite cables to the receiver box, plug in the video and audio cables to the TV and plug in the box. After turning everything on it went through a self-initialization process and downloaded a system upgrade and, Ta da, we now have satellite TV. We got the DVR option so we can pre-record our favorite programs. We had this option when we had Comcast cable and really liked being able to record and then watch programs at a more convenient time. Plus you can record one program while watching another.
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I you are a tv freak like I am, you will want to know that all the cable shows come on 3 hours earlier. The satellite is on East Coast time. I almost missed an episode of Project Runway - God forbid! I was setting up the DVR and noticed the show was playing right then - 7pm instead of the 10pm that I expected.
ReplyDeleteI love my DVR!!!
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