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Tech out in the field

I have a question. Has AT&T Tech's in the field turned back time to the era of bullhorns? It's 2017 and these Aholes areOut in an apartment complex area using a bullhorn type communication to the guy in the bucket lift.Forget the fact they make earbuds for Walkie talkie's for this use no we are ahol

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Genie Mini "signal" field is blank in HDMI

This is a case of "it worked until the upgrade." I have both HMDI and A/V outputs from my DirecTV receiver. The HDMI goes to the TV. The A/V goes to an old non-HDMI DVD player, which then connects to the TV. The TV has a digital audio out that goes to an Onkyo stereo receiver (which is also hooked u

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Location of dish

We currently have our dish mounted outside in our field on a post.  We need to relocate it to a new spot due to trees. Can the dish be mounted 200 feet from the house in our field?  We would be up the post>

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Notification for field work near your location

I believe it is time for AT&T to notify you when there is going to be an outside repair in your local area (perhaps defined as 1-3 blocks near you or as much as 5 blocks near a major outside junction box). Everytime I see an AT&T truck within the above mentioned parameters, I prepare myself for an o

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DVR for Sports Game Shows the Score in Description Field

I recently DVR'd a sports game. Unfortunately, as I went to watch the game (not live), the description of the event included the live score which ruins, in my opinion, watching the game with the anticipation of not knowing the score. I love the DirecTV Stream service, but highly recommend removin

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Parental Control time of day

I want to set the times allowed to be from 6 AM to 1 AM on weekdays. I set the start time to 6 AM. Then I set it to allow 19 hours. As soon as I leave the field it reverts to 18 hours. Is there any way to get it to allow past midnight? I would suggest a future update of the software to allow us to s

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and the manholes that explode have high voltage transformers and electrical lines in them. Never heard of a telecom man hole exploding as there is nothing that would cause an explosion.....been working in the telecom field for quite some time.....sor

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Underground utility tunnel explosions on TODAY SHOW

See exploding underground utility tunnels reports on the TODAY show. How secure and how safe are these tunnels? Do technicians give access to property managers? PROPERTY MANAGER AT MY CONDO HAS ACCESS TO A TUNNEL. Did an ATT technician give them access?   Do the tunnels belong to ATT,DTE or Consumer

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Longhorn,All modern TVs have a video processing chip inside them usually called the scaler/deinterlacer. This chip is responsible for changing any incoming signal format into what the display can actually display natively.The scaler/deinterlacer is t

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what's up with 1080i setting but no 1080p?

So I ordered HD upgrade. On the DVR settings I figured I'd see what settings there are, so I go the screen settings and the highest one is 1080i...What's up with that? Am I really getting interlaced frames? Can this DVR not output 1080p?What am I missing here?I have to believe you guys are getting 1

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Disconnect between online customer service/tech support and techs in the field

Can anyone explain why there is such a big disconnect between online customer service/tech support and techs in the field? The best way to put it is like the saying that one hand doesn't know what the other one is doing. I was trying to get services setup, and without any knowledge or contact from c

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I could answer some of these, but since I don't have an HR34 I can't answer them all. Post here http://www.dbstalk.com/showthread.php?t=198305 where you can get a response from people who have had HR34s since the field trials. http://www.dbstalk.com/

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HR34 issues

I am a brand new customer with an HR34, switching from cable/TiVo HD.  At first I was appalled at the complexity and non-intuitiveness of the remote and menus thinking there's no possible way the rest of the family can adjust to this.  But now I think I must  be encountering some pretty serious soft

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Parental Pin reset

Don't recall creating a Parental Pin.  How to "reset" the PIN?   There is no field to request reset.

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Part of The Menu is cut off of the screen

Hi. Part of the menu is cut off of the screen and i dont know how to fix it, and its really hard to navigate through On Demand. On the Guide its cuts off the channel name(like the 3-5 letter abreviation of the channel) and the time at the time is cut off to and i would really like to know how to fix

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FOX HD in the Bay Area

Is any one else having a problem w/ Fox HD during sporting events??? I've had problems w/ all of my HD channels most of which have been (pretty much)cleaned up. However Fox HD remains a mess. PIXELATED! Constantly moving squares all over the field and stands. This has been going on since install abo

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Out of the country

Why does my directv app not work out of the US?

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Sunday Ticket on the go not working again 9/19/10

Every time I try to watch any game other than the Red Zone channel I get stream not available. I pay out the nose for Sunday Ticket and I'm not happy. I have to listen to the game with NFL Field Pass even though I paid $400 some dollars for Sunday ticket with on the go.

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Purpose of the battery??

The battery left by the tech I am assuming is included in our package; and I am not going to be charged extra. Am I wrong in assuming that the sole purpose of this battery; is for when our power goes out. I am guessing the battery is specifically to keep the power the "Residential Gateway" in th eve

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AT&T U-Verse field technicians not working weekends

This past Saturday morning, August 20th, we had an area outage that, we found out later, was due to a car hitting an AT&T pole near our home. I called tech support that Saturday morning and they confirmed the outage. I called back Sunday morning and the tech said the area outage had been resolved, s

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My ISB7500 does not suffer from any input lag. As I mentioned earlier, it does suffer from a narrow field of view for the IR remote.

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Slow Response Uverse DVR and Remote - Do I have the latest equipment? Or is it really this slow?

I have brand new Giga speed service with U-Verse TV.  My equipment is: Modem: Pace 5268ACDVR: VIP 1200Remote: S30-S1A I think quality of the equipment has taken a step backwards, as here are some issues.1)  Help! Slow response rate to everything.  1a ) Changing channels, keying in names of programs

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I like this research topic Effectiveness of Education Television programmes. I am taking a part in university study in the field of media, so I would like to know your experience)

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Public, Education and Government Programming on ATT Uverse TV

I'm assuming I can't get city council (and other) meetings due to our city Coronado, California not being "launched" and on the master list of cities with this service. Any way of finding out if and when launch for Coronado will occur as the city is telling everyone it is there. Thanks-

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