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Reactivating canceled account

Hi all! I was a directv customer for several years. Prices kept going up and I finally decided to cancel my service and put through the cancellation via talking to a rep on the phone. I logged onto their website a week or so later to see what date my service would stop, and there was a button that s

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DirecTV box asks to be powered on for other TV apps to work

We have a Samsung Smart TV Q80BA - we have used the TV apps [youtube/mlb/hulu, etc.] for over a year without having the DirecTV box on. Lately, while using an app, the TV will randomly go to another screen where it is asking you to power on the DirecTV box.  Once we do that, then the app will

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Technician stole receiver from business

I have a business customer that called DirecTV to have a technician come out and look at a receiver that was not working. This customer has 3 DirecTV receivers. 1 in an upstairs event area and 2 in a lower level grill area. The unit that was bad was in the lower level grill area. The technician sh

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Satellite Signal/Streaming loss

We had storms Sunday afternoon and my tv went to streaming. It was still streaming this morning, but there are no storms in the area.  I had to reset my receivers and now the streaming functionality is no longer an option and I’m connected to my home network.  How can I fix these two issu

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Occasional Pixelation

I have whole house system and occasionally get pixelation while viewing a program, but if I rewind and watch it again, the pixelation is gone. Why is this happening and how do I eliminate the problem? Thank you. I also have a soundbar. Could that be a contributing factor?

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Where is my list of recorded shows?

Before I could just push list and they would all be right there organized so I could choose what I wanted to watch. Now I press List and I get a screen saying All Recordings here but they're not. Only a picture of remote telling me how to record. Went to menu to try to find recorded shows. One show

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Update

My menu did update but I continue to use the List button on my remote to find my recordings. I only use menu if I want to use the search option

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Gemini remote

Just curious about what others think about the Gemini remote? I personally think it is a swing and a miss.  The ergonomics of it aren't good.  It has an odd shape, it doesn't feel good in your hand, the number buttons are too low on the remote and the lettering on the buttons are too dark

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Recordings

So when I recorded the news a few hours ago I go to watch it now and I get halfway through it and it still has 15 minutes left yet in the middle it asks if I want to delete it or not but it’s not over yet. And it’s recorded the whine show yet stops in the middle whyyyy? It’s (Edited per community gu

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Do I need AT&T and Spectrum

I'm paying for both Spectrum internet ($101) and At&t  ($89).  I have a Roku stick.  I watch mostly News FOX, MSMBC, CNN and some sports using Directv.  I get close to 200 channels but only watch about 10.    I have a cable box and a router My question is do I need

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