While We Were Away…

Our satellite TV system died. Well, one standard definition receiver died and, when we tried to get the remaining one to work when we got back to the Lower 48, the satellite dome antenna on the roof of the RV would not seek properly and started resetting itself. We already had plans to upgrade the whole AV system to HD when we got to Florida, so this forced our hand a bit. We stopped at a Camping World store in Washington and bought a Winegard Slimline automatic satellite antenna and Geoff installed it in a couple of days. Now, it is hooked up to the remaining, working standard def receiver and we are able to get our satellite channels again.

Next, we called DirecTV and ordered a HD DVR. They gave it to us for free for being such good customers, and 3 months free service on it. We also plan on getting a new TiVo HD DVR which will be able to record from cable and over-the-air signals. We did not get the DirecTV DVR with TiVo, because the free one was a big plus and Geoff found out there is really no advantage to the TiVo software, since it will not interact with other TiVos on the same network, like the old Series 2 devices would. This should give us a pretty nice system when it is all installed and working. When we get to Pacifica, California, DirecTV will come to us and install the new DVR and give us a manual HD dish as a back-up for the Winegard dish.