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the good and the bad

I have been enjoying our whole house system for a little over 6 months and I was wondering if some issues I experience are on some roadmap to be fixed and if so when. I am also curious if the new directv tivo hd dvr that is coming this week will support whole house. The good: -I love that I can see

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Spotty Pixels and delays on the screen and the Audio

Spotty Pixels and delays on the screen and the Audio.  Why is this happening.  I'm in the Birmingham AL area.

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Hallmark Channel and the UP Channel

I was hoping you were going to add Hallmark back to the channel line up. Also there is a great channel called UP. There are so many channels I do not watch and for the money I pay it should have more movie channels that do not cost us extra money.

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Newsmax and The First

Recently, Newsmax was cancelled by DirecTV and it had been my favorite news channel. That was after DirecTV cancelled OANN last year. Now there are terrible news choices. Supposedly, there is now "The First" as a replacement BUT it is NOT available via satellite unless I now install HD receivers. Wh

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what's the difference between the ms6x8wb and ms6x8wb-z?

what's the difference between the ms6x8wb and ms6x8wb-z?

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Pandemic and the cost of our service

I am a long time customer of directv, going on 20 years now over the last 2 addresses. We are facing issues with the high bill at this time because of the pandemic. I called to see what I could do to get my $155 monthly bill lowered. He asked what we watch, I said sports among other things. And

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The voice and picture is jerky.

For several weeks our TV has been poor connection. The voice is breaking up and pic is erratic. I’ve checked all my TVs and they have the same issue. Can you help us clear this issue. It happens just occasionally, so it is frustrating. Please help with this issue. Gerald Russell

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Isedora Trickplay and the HR24

I saw a bunch of posts on trickplay functionality and Isedora but they are all from 2010. I am unable to get trick play working with my HR24 or H24. I emailed Isedora site and there response was :"We're not much aware of TrickPlay, suppose that it requires rather firmware support, not a software. iS

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Watching TV and recording at the same time.

We just got u-verse today, we were recording a movie and a tv show at the same time. When I wanted to change the channel, I had to stop one of the recodings. We have two boxes that are hooked up and 2 boxes that are wireless. Can we only record one channel at a time and still be able to watch live t

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ipad access with U-Verse app, and the WAP

I have a new U-Verse installation with a DVR and one ISB7005 connected via ethernet, not wifi. Currently the AT&T WAP is unplugged and my iPad and other devices get their wifi signal from the RG. Is there any reason I should connect AT&T's WAP to use the U-Verse app on my ipad, or will the RG's wifi

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HD channels and the weather?

Over the past several weeks i have noticed that my HD channels do not tune in when the weather is poor, i.e. raining or overcast skies- like right now here in Pittsburgh.It is just drizzling, but overcast and not 1 HD chennel is operational- can't wait for when it snows...please advise.

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HR34 and the new GUI

I recently had DirecTV installed in my home.  I have the new HR34 and also the HR24.  The new GUI downloaded to the HR24 but not to the HR34.  DirecTV said the new GUI for the HR34 was released on 12/8/11 but won't be available in the Tampa market until the first quarter of 2012.  If it is available

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Birdog (older) and the SWM lnb

We are moving a SWM slimline dish on a portable roof mount to put a new roof on.  I put my older birdog meter on the line with the SWM sat info installed and do now have enough power to power up the LNB or get a signal on the birdog.  I have a Eagle Aspin S-2180-CE 3X8 Multi switch.  Can I plug the

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Using On-Demand and DVR at the same time

Why am I unable to watch a movie on demand at the same time that my DVR is recording a show. It kicked me out of the movie and told me that the action was unable to be done... something like that.... Would it have anything to do with the 2 wireless boxes in my house??

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Localized EAS and The Weather Channel

Hi. I am looking to find out if DirecTV Stream can deliver localized Weather and Amber and Critical National/Localized alerts as the need arises. I’m looking to get a localized alert and localized Weather feed on the weather channel on my directv stream based off of zip code like as is the case with

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whole home dvr and the internet.

Having trouble getting two dvr's and two hd recievers to see each other in the whole home mode. spoke with tech rep at direct and they told me that internet service has to be available to all the receivers for the whole homet to work.  I was under the assumption that this was not necessary.  If not,

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stop the clields play and give us our races

I'm really looking for someone at ATT that has just a touch of common sense and cares about doing the right thing.  All this crap over the NASCR races is very childish of both you and Fox.  Both of you make millions of dollars off people like me and you geniuses can't even work it out and agreement

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community managers and getting the VIP2500

We have been having problems with the wireless box we have. Signal keeps getting lost. The tech told me to call and ask for a drop ship the VIP2500 because he had only had had 1 VIP2500 when he had to track it down for somebody. So the next time the problem happened I called and they said they cant

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I want my service restored to delete the HD and have the distortion eliminated.

When I first switched from Time Warner Cable to ATT Uverse, I was thrilled. Time Warner’s customer service was rated the worst in the country and my own experience with them validated that rating. A few months ago, my cable TVs were having problems and I was sent a new part, but I was unable to

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ir and rf on the receiver

I have one of my receivers mirrored using a modulator.  I have an extra ir remote.  I was wondering if I can use the IR locally and the RF in the other room for the same receiver?  Or in other words, can a receiver be used with two different remotes, one IR and one RF without switching the settings

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