Samsung remote running my DTV, but…

What upgrades are there? There has been nothing new added to my system. Same remote and boxes put in over 8 years ago. What upgrades could they do? The other companies have made many. Skip commercials, voice commands just to name a few. DTV? Nothing new. I ask every time I call because I have to negotiate  better price every time my “promotional price” runs out and my payment goes up $80 bucks. Sorry, love my directv but don’t try to sell me on there’s nothing they could do to be better.

@Mmickley we understand how important it's to have the features you need in one remote.

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DTV has voice control using Alexa,  but since we don't know what you have then it is had to tell what upgrades you can get.

I've had 3 Samsung TV's where the tv remote completely controlled DirecTV. Channels, guide, recordings, everything. Just bought another, cheaper, Samsung 4k TV for an additional room, never occurred to me it wouldn't control the recordings, definitely not new technology, and I have other Samsung TV's now that do it. It's really funny to read the comments from people who claim it's not possible 🤣

It is that most TV remotes don't have DTV codes to run the DTV receiver.