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Limitation on number of simultanious recordings/viewings...
We have a satellite-based hr44-500 with three Genies. We are only allowed to record + watch a maximum of two shows. If we wish to record two different channels simultaniously, and watch a third channel, we get the "must cancel one recording or change to one of the channels being recorded" message. I
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Lightning Strike
There was a lightning strike on a tree 20ft. from the house, last Sunday. There was static electricity, discharge in the house that caused quite a scare to the family. Even though the power was off at the time, I lost eight pieces of equipment including the satellite receiver, TV, DVD player, NAS, a
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When trying to login to DIRECTV to stream tv shows I keep getting the following error something went wrong please try again later code 8003
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Service contract
Where does it say I agreed to 24 months of service? I was certainly never told this, and nothing I ever signed or was shown says anything of the sort. The MOST I've seen is on the back of the bill it says "by leasing equipment, you agree to UP TO 24 months of service." But I was told 12 months, and
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Turn off TV but keep receiver on With RC73
I just replaced two RC73 remotes with new ones. The old ones would turn the TV both on and off with the ON button and leave the receiver on. The new ones will only turn off the TV with the OFF button, which also turns off the receiver and looses the buffering. I know I can turn off the TV with the T
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Tv swap and no signal
I recently decided to add a larger tv in the bedroom where everything was working fine. After simply swapping the tv, I can’t get the direct tv streaming to work. When plugging in the little device that plugs into the hdmi the Direct tv logo pops up and then goes to next dtv logo like it’s rebooting
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Using Directv with Alexa!
I paid thousands of dollars for this equipment that was supposed to work flawlessly, and it does not, for example, if I'm watching directv and I ask Alexa to change the channel, it actually changes the INPUT to my Firestick and starts trying to find some app to use there, even though I erased the di
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No local channels and most channels will not stream
App has no local channels and most channels come up with this message. Not available to stream on this device. These are all channels I have had no issues with in the past. Thank you for the help.
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Anyone else have an outage on Wed. 07/23/25 at 8:04 PDT?
The screen froze and then went through the lengthy reset process for 8+ min. Fortunately the program was repeated at 2 a.m. so I could see the missing minutes.
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