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Reduce broadcast delay for sports programming like YouTube just did

YouTube has added a setting to reduce broadcast delay on streaming to make watching sports better. DirecTV Stream has an approximate 1 minute delay which causes issues with spoilers when alerts, texts, live scoring, etc. find their way to the viewer and let them know what is about to happen on the b

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Directv Stream box closed captioning

Anyone else notice captions for the Directv Stream box (Osprey), when set to "standard"-- became really large starting last night? I have had my size set to standard since 2021 and the font size has always been the same. But, starting last night, the size got really big. Too big. And the "small" set

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Your Video is Loading. please be patient. Only during rewind/fast forward through live tv buffer

If I'm watching live tv, any channel, I often get a delay when I fast forward or rewind through the buffer. It will show a black screen with a circle, and a blue bar on the bottom saying the video is loading, please be patient. It does this for about 10-15 seconds and then starts playing at the very

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Sports mix

I moved over from YouTube TV and am wondering if I can select the games in the sports mix? If possible, please let me know how to do it. If not, please include all the top college football games in the mix so we can watch and move from game to game. Can't you put a network like ABC in the Box? It is

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Upgraded my plan to one with more channels, now I can't see any channels on any of my devices.

Last night I wanted to upgrade my Direct TV stream package to a plan with more channels, but when I paid for the changes to be made and now I get no channels at all. I tried it on both of my laptops and got nothing, I tried it on my Android S21 phone with the app and still got nothing, I tried it on

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Can you use DTV Stream in multiple households?

Can you use DirectvStream in multiple households? I want a streaming service for myself and my brother with local sports channels (namely MSG) but the only other provider carrying it is FuboTV and they don’t allow you to use more than one device hooked up to a TV at once (outside of your home wifi).

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Customize Directv Stream Guide?

is there a way to customize the order of the channels when streaming on the app. Having them in alphabetical order is very frustrating.

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How do I record an entire tennis match

I recorded a tennis match on tennis channel. The match went far beyond the 2 hours allotted for the match. I also recorded the program following it( a second match) when I attempted to watch the recording it stopped at 2 hours, and when I started the following program it started at the beginning of

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ESPN plus app

Will directv stream ever migrate the ESPN app into the directv stream guide? So you won't have to use two different apps

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Fraud Department - HELP!

I have an unresolved fraud issue that has been ongoing for 5 months. In fact, a DirecTV employee is the one who has committed fraud and as a result, I have been billed almost $1k for a service I did not purchase and do not have at my home. I have filed a police report, spent hours on the phone with

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