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Rain Fade

I have a standard 18" dish with a 95 reading on signal strength.I occasionally get rain fade dropout-sometimes for several minutes at a stretch. My question is would switching to a 30" dish completely eliminate rain fade if properly aligned.

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TV Picture fades out to black

My Samsung TV worked fine when I turned it off last night. This morning it comes on to a black screen with QLED letters, goes on to the TV channel and within seconds fades away to a black screen for several seconds and then repeats this pattern continually. Every so often I briefly see an HDMI Erro

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Black Screen

DVR indicates it is recording my shows. but when I go to watch them all that is there is a black screen. This has happened on several networks in the last week. Also, I can watch a DVR recording and it plays fine. But when I go to watch it again all it shows is a black screen.

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HD Rain Fade

Local hd programing goes with just light rain, long before national hd and standard programing goes. Techs have checked equipment and dish alignment and signal strength and found no problems. Any suggestions?

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black screen

my screen is black from trying to make compatibility between the TV and DVD player

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Black box

Does the black box allow you to watch TV on multiple channels in your home. Does it provide 520 MB of wireless services?

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black screen

ive deleted app and reinstalled and im still getting a black screen on my iphone13. It swirls, then all I see is a black screen!!

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rain fade

Anybody out there know someone who can PROPERLY align a dish SO the local HD channels aren't lost with the onset of rain. They loose signal long before the local sd channels do. Has to be a monsoon to loose sd, but only light rain to loose hd. Live in the Triad region of NC, (Greensboro, High Point,

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Black screen

What does it mean when you have a black screen? The tv and U-verse box is on

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Intermittent black screen

What is the protocol to eliminate the problem of a screen going black for a few seconds at frequent intervals?

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How to replace my uverse wired box it's old black unit boots to black screen with red X and #1

How to replace my uverse wired box it's old black unit boots to black screen with red X and #1

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Black lines

Yesterday, to my delight, the gray lines on my local channels were replaced by black, which were so much better. But now the ugly gray lines are back. I'm so disappointed. The black looked like it framed the program, and didn't make it look tacky like the gray bars do.Please, if there's a way to get

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Black screen

DVR started deleting shows , guide saying channel not available on certain channels. Now screen is completely black. Tried reboot several times but still black screen. Main genie box sometimes blue light flashes and it shows it is recording but still black screen.

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Black and White

The picture is in Black and White. I know it is not a TV issue, I've tried two TV's on the receiver, however, the picture is Black and White. What could be the problem?

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Intermittent Black Screen

Around April 30th I started to notice a partial or full black screen while watching Direct TV. It occurs around 20 minutes in and the black screen shows for about a second and repeats every 10 seconds. At first I thought it was my TCL TV going bad, but this isn't happening when I'm streaming Netflix

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Frozen, Pixelated Black Screen

Our TV continues to give us a black screen, pixelated screen or freezes for 2-3 seconds, whether live or recorded

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BLACK screen

I have a HR 21-100 in which constantly has black screens on all my channels. We can go thru the set up and occasionally can get it to work again but more times than not....the screen goes completely black again. We also have taken our other receivers and hooked/plugged them into the room where we ha

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black screen

Been watching on demand and live tv on my computer for 4 years. Now I get right to WATCH NOW and then a black screen. Live tv says" Sorr, we ran into a problem. Please refresh page and restart video player

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black screen

I have a Samsung Smart TV. It works fine for services like Netflix, but when on HDMI1 I get only a black screen.

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black screen

My tv and DirectTV system were working fine, but now I have a black screen, with audio intact.  Relatively new Samsung TV .  checked wires without change.  tried to turn on and off tv.  any ideas?

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