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Receiver goes crazy and cycles through channels

My DirecTV just goes crazy and keeps running through the channels. The remote is not close to anyone, so no human error. Changed the batteries but that didn't work. I am not sure what DirecTV Steam is, unless this is the way that customers can stream from their DirecTV receiver. I am not given any

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Advertisements are crazy

The quality of the advertisements have decreased on many of the TV channels. Why hasn't anyone checked quality control? Even if the TV channel allows the advertisements or tv shows to air couldn't u-verse do something about it? I saw an advertisement about what jobs kids should consider good which i

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Crazy Problem- Stumped

Ok, so I just bought a new Vizio HD 47" lcd for my home.  I have a standard direct tv receiver hooked up to it.  If the tv is on, The remote for the satelite will work sporadically or not at all.  If I shut off the Vizio tv, I can change channels or hit guide or whatever I want and watch the blue li

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Hr24-500 going crazy

I have searched and cannot find any information on the problems I am having with my hr24 receiver.  It at random times will turn itself on, record what it wants when it wants, if you are watching tv it will change the channel, bring up the guide, etc.  I know its not the remote because i have tried

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FIGURED OUT THE CRAZY ONDEMAND STUPID PENDING DOWNLOAD PROBLEM!!!!!!

I have had the exact same issues for the last three days as most of you with on demand and the crazy pending download issue..benn searching all over the internet for a solution I did it all.. resetting, unplugging modems, wireless router, wireless bridge EVERYTHING resetting dvr over and over again.

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Dvr doing crazy things

Had tivo for several years..Samsung..began to just go off for no reason and then have to power up..started doing that more regularly lately..in the last couple of days it gives a screen that says that dvr was too hot ....followed instructions to reset... checked fan and it was not on but came on whi

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Crazy problem- totally stumped

Ok, so I just bought a new Vizio HD 47" lcd for my home.  I have a standard direct tv receiver hooked up to it.  If the tv is on, The remote for the satelite will work sporadically or not at all.  If I shut off the Vizio tv, I can change channels or hit guide or whatever I want and watch the blue li

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On Demand is making me crazy

I've had Uverse for a few years now and I still can't get the knack of using On Demand in an easy way. Today I am giving it another try, watching a series from HBO.  I found it by doing the search and I want to watch all of season one.   If I use the remote to go look at the guide or anything thing

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Att billing is crazy

At&t told me I had to update my username this morning while paying my cell phone and internet. Then I went over to sign into direct tv to pay that bill and it is asking me for that new username, then redirects me back to att where I see I just paid my two other bills.  So direct tv wont ge

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Trying to Upgrade -- 4 Crazy Problems

I had a standard def receiver and directv working for months. Recently I bought a plasma tv and got a free H20 receiver from Best Buy. I'm trying to set up the H20 high def receiver in time for this week's college games and have run into a host of problems. Spent 4.5 hours on phone with directv gett

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crazy slow download on Hurt Locker

I'm trying to order Hurt Locker 1080p but its downloading at an unbelievably slow rate. any one seeing these types of issues? Its been going for nearly an hour and is 6% in (about 10-15 minutes of movie). I just ran a speed test, 22Mbps down, 1.8Mbps up. I regularly can download large files from rea

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your crazy billing continues even after cancellation???

how does one deal with a fraudulent charge that directv is making against me by hiring a collections agency......I cancelled my service......you refused to accept my cancellation and kept billing me.......do you do this to all your customers.. Every time I have dealt with you there is a tremendous

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DVR remote driving me crazy

What am I missing here? Whenever I want to switch from one recording to the other, the first one continues to play up in the corner of the screen even after I have exited to the Playlist screen. How do I make a recording completely STOP when I want it to? Thanks.

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DirecTV Stream Box instead of Gemini - Crazy Costs

It's that time of year when AT&T will jack up my U-verse price to try to force me off that platform. Last year, the cost difference between U-verse and DirecTv stream was not that much of a difference for me, so I've been dragging my feet. Today, however, I went back online to see what the p

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Black screen really driving me crazy

I have installed Directv2pc and I connect to the receiver fine and can see all my programming.  When I try to play anything it goes to a black screen with no video/audio.  If I pull up the time bar and try to pause/fast forward or anything a window pops up that says Directv2pc has stopped working an

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universal remote the works with Uverse

I know about the logtech harmaniy remotes but they are crazy expensive for a remote. Are there any remotes that don't cost 65 bucks?

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Gemini Remote

I'm not crazy about the remote that came with Gemini. Can older remotes be programmed to work on it?

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My remote is not working

I changed the batteries but the remote is not working. before I changed the batteries- the remote was reacting crazy - tried to fast forward and it blinked several times red and the screen shut down. Now the remote does not work at all 

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The "LAST" button will not work

Crazy problem I am having...I have 2 remotes...both in mint condition and over time the "Last" button will not work. The one stopped working about 4 months ago and the other one just started yesterday.  It will never work or light up and yet they button doesnt feel out of place or wierd or anything

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HR21-100 Bad screen flicker and crazy res light changes.

I arrived at my TV yesterday to see that the D* receiver had locked up whilst the Plasma TV was on. 😞 Sad Burn in now. 😞Anyhoo, I rebooted the receiver and proceeded to switch over to Sunday Ticket to watch some games. I watched just a few minutes of one game and the screen started flickering some

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