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directv box powers off when I pause YouTube

When I pause a YouTube video the DIRECTV box will power down after a couple of minutes.

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Gemini

Hello: I just purchased a brand new, still in box Gemini receiver on eBay. (it is the flat model, no the dongle) I plugged it in. It boots up, downloads current software, but then I receive an error saying "Receiver Not Found" does anyone know the problem? The receiver has a manufacturer date of 20

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Watching a channel and tv switches to Guide

While watching a program on stream, display changes to Guide from earlier time frame in the day and lowest channel number in the package. This was a problem for a while when we switched to Directv Stream but after a few days ceased being a problem; the problem recurred this morning. This issue recur

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Program remote when tv brand not available

Hello,I have a Leotachi mirror TV and the Directv streaming remote does not recognize that brand so I cannot program remote. How do I do it?? Thanks

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Remote issues

Over the past couple of the days, the remote has not been working properly. I can turn on he stream box but cannot get the guide to come up. I changed the batteries and following that, the remote would not work at all. I unpaired and then performed the pairing process and that seemed to fix the issu

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New user starting to think DirecTv is not for sports fans

I was watching my recording of the NBA game tonight when the recording just ended after 2 1/2 hours. I went scrambling to try to find the live channel (because often the channel number isn't given, only the name of the channel) and almost missed the exciting ending to the game, cursing all the time.

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How to get rid of "Activate Sports Mode now" message

I'm watching a basketball game, and there is this annoying message across the middle of the screen saying, "Activate Sports Mode now" Press and hold OK for stats, updates, and more. I do not want to use Sports mode. I just want to watch my show. How do I get rid of that annoying message. I trie

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Unwanted Scheduled Recordings

There is a weekly TV show that I have scheduled to record. Recently a different channel started to show old episodes of that show in syndication. All of a sudden my “Upcoming Recordings” list was flooded with many dozens of unwanted recordings. It took me a half hour to cancel them. The DirecTV sche

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Sound

Sound just randomly gets loud mainly on FanDuel sports network other channels aren’t as noticeable sound only does it on Directv stream it does not do it on the FanDuel sports app

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Problem streaming MAX

We have a Directv account which includes being billed monthly for MAX. I want to stream MAX on both my TV's. On one of our TV's there is no problem. On my other TV, starting a few days ago it says I need to "Connect my provider". It says I need to go the URL Max.Com/providers and enter my code. I en

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