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General information about installation.

Hi. Where i can find Directv installation guide. Should be some general information because they keep on giving as some new requirements every day. and some of them contradict each other. i know Dishnetwork has guide for installers. I never know do my installation pass QC or not.

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why isn't general hospital recording yesterday and today

I have general hospital set to record all episodes and it has not recorded in the last two days (Monday, 4/22 and Tuesday, 4/23). It shows set up to record, yet it does not record.  General Hospital is #1 priority on our recording manager list.  Why isn't this program recording? &nbs

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General Hospital didn't record

I have 2 receivers an HR-44 and a HR-24. They are both set to record General Hospital on ABC at 3:00 PM. They are both set to record "All" episodes. The program guide says first aired 7/29/2019 which is today. Neither receivers recorded the program. I was walking by the HR-44 and I noticed the recor

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General Signal Questions/Signal Loss Question

I just had DirecTV installed on Saturday the 17th and I was looking at my signal strength with a clear sky and on two of HD satellites I have about 93-100 signal strength and on the new HD satellite I have about 84-91 signal strength.  This morning there were some storm clouds in the area and it was

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why are there no new General Hospital episodes on my UVerse app on my phone?

why are no new General Hospital episodes available on demand on my UVerse app on my phone?

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General Advise

I am wanting a NON HD DVR, can I use my single LNB dish or do I have to get a 3 LNB dish? I currently get my local channels through an antenna and plan to continue. Also, we built our house about a year ago and I ran 2 cables to my TV, 1 for the local channels(antenna) and 1 for DirecTV. Can I have

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DVR sometimes records General Hospital, sometimes not

I know that GH changed their time slot back in July( now showing at 3:00pm) Tamron Hall is on before it(2:00pm). For some reason, ATT Uverse is still thinking it is on at 2:00, so I make sure to have the DVR set to record BOTH programs.  But several times it has recorded what it thinks is Gene

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General Q's

1 - Is there central data base for codes ? 2 - Is there a significance to 10000, 20000, 3... etc codes ?3 - Is there a code search for anything beyond the TV ?4 - Home theater codes are not specifically mentioned in the DTV menus. How come ?5 - I have spent many hours searching, trying all "recommen

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General information

There are four cables coming from the LNB. Do all four carry individual channels? Do hey all need to be combined wth a switch for a reciever to work?

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General Advise

I am wanting a NON HD DVR, can I use my single LNB dish or do I have to get a 3 LNB dish? I currently get my local channels through an antenna and plan to continue. Also, we built our house about a year ago and I ran 2 cables to my TV, 1 for the local channels(antenna) and 1 for DirecTV. Can I have

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General Questions

Hi all, I am a very new DirecTV customer who admittedly is a bit overwhelmed by all this...  First of all; my setup: Family Room TV (52" 1080p) on HD DVR Receiver model HR24-500Kitchen TV (Small SD) on SD Receiver model D12-700Bedroom 1 TV (small 720p) on HD Receiver model H25-500Bedroom 2 TV (26" 7

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General Install question

We were wondering if the "tech know guides" are actual employees or just actual cust trying to help eachother?

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General DirectTV Recording

We are considering switching from cable to DirectTV. Will be be able to use our current DVD Recorders? Two are Panasonic analog and one is a Panasonic with a analog/digital tuner. If we can't I assume we would lease the DVR's that are offered. Thanks in advance for responses.

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General DVR PLUS R15

I am curious if other people get these same problems with their recievers, and if so if they fixed any of them.My fast foward and rewaind are very jumpy and when i press "play" it sometimes jumps a couple minutes foward or backward depending on if I am fast-fowarding or rewinding.When I try to recor

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HBO and general cable service

I am a Direct TV customer who happens to be older and suffering from the insufferable.  I just wanted to let you know that I have read about CNN, the far-left group of haters, getting about a billion dollars a year because cable companies include this garbage on the basic service.  I would suggest y

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General Hospital is not recording, why?

General Hospital has not been recording. We got a message:         "episode was cancelled because             of a programming update (13)"  What's this all about? 

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Exposed Wires, Cable and General Unsightliness

I am the secretary of a Neighborhood Association located directly off Taylorsville Rd. There are several areas within the community where AT&T has left large amounts of exposed cable wound up near the CATV pedestals and often the upper cover is left off the pedestal.  The residen

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General question - What's a single wire multiswitch?

I'm a newbie!

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General questions about how the external WVB works

OK, so would like to hear what people know (not guess) on the WVB Wireless Video Bridge I'm going to go "step by step" so want to keep confusion down. There are SEVERAL routes carrying information in my home, which was a bit surprising at first. I have a dish, Genie 2, Gemini, Genie Mini, and the

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HD-DVR freezes in the same general time frame every week

I have the HR23 HD DVR and it seems to only freeze up on Monday evenings when I'm watching a DVR'd program.   It may do it more often but I usually watch DVR stuff on monday evenings.  The freeze happens when I pause whatever recording I'm watching and press play.  Takes a "hard reboot" to get going

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