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Stop home screen stream video from automatically playing

Hello - I am on DirecTv Streaming and this issue is on both my Gemini device and my FireStick. When the home screen is selected, there is a larger video window that automatically plays. Even if I'm not watching pre-recorded content, it will play whatever content/channel I last watched. I now have t

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Update for Directv Stream Samsung TV App is garbage

The update to the Directv Stream app for Samsung TVs is horrible. 1. It’s not user friendly. Simply getting to the guide now has extra steps. 2. Continuous scrolling is gone. Once you scroll to the end of your channels, it stops. I have to scroll all the way back to get to lower channel numbers. It

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Can't watch recording of a sports game that's in progress

Tried to watch a recorded hockey game that was currently between the 1st and 2nd period. No matter what I do I can only watch the live game in progress. Can start from the beginning. There was a popup that said "we can take you to where this event's now showing". There is only a button that says "Ta

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Constant Freezes and buffering

i have had issues with the new Directv app since it updated. I am constantly getting buffering, freezing, restarting of programs, Favorite channels not showing up. No volume on recordings. Until this last update I haven't had any of these issues with Directv Stream, I have a Samsung Neo Qled TV.

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Streaming and receiving an error code? What can you do?

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Recording from wrong channel

How do I tell it NOT to record from multiple channels?? It winds up recording very old shows on channels like Game Show Network!!  I selected new and no reruns.

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Whoops, Boston Celtics at New York Knocks is over.

I’ve not had a problem using the dvr with Directv streaming until recently. Now I get a message like the one above. The rest of the message is “It’s finished airing, so it can’t be recorded anymore. Sorry about that. “ the evrnt or program is not over - in fact it is scheduled to start several hours

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Skip Ahead using Samsung remote on Direct TV App is no longer available on the upgraded APP

Ever since DTV upgraded the APP you no longer have a skid ahead option while watching recorded shows. To make matters worse, using the 30 sec jump ahead, I get a message “System network is congested…” when trying to fast forward thru the commercials and the show reverts back to the start. My TV is c

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Recording are restarting from the beginning while I am watching

In the past few weeks I have noticed on my samsung frame tv, that anytime I watch a recording on the directv stream app, the show will buffer, then when it is finished buffering, it will restart the recording at the very beginning. Then I will have to fast forward to where it began to buffer to resu

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Casting or Mirroring iPhone to Directv

Does Directv support mirroring or casting from an iPhone to a Directv Streaming box? I’m pretty sure I got that to work at one time but I can’t remember how I did it. On my iPhone, when I attempt to do mirroring, the iPhone shows devices on my network that I can mirror to but none of my Directv bo

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