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Will Directv Mount on a 3 Story roof

The only real possible way to get a clear line of sight would be able to mount it on my roof witch is a 3 story townhouse will the install tech climb that high

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Sporting events cut short by DVR

One of the best tennis matches of this era--Australian Open Final Medvedev v. Nadal--was cut short on ESPN recording just before the climactic end of the fifth set. Has anyone else had issues with Direct TV Stream and sporting events? There have been a few TV repeatedly cut 2 minutes short and sever

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Cutting short recordings

Ive got a Hughes/DirectTV DVR Tivo (DVR 40), and it seems that over 90% of the shows I record are cut short by one minute.  It would make sense if the DirectTV master clock was off by one moment or if all the TV networks were producing 31 minute long shows to try to make people see one more set of c

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SMART short test fails with 0x77

Been getting jerky stop/starts and failed recordings lately. Support suggested to clean up the disk with all recordings removed and had a scan done. This helped for a few days, then I found the diag menu and ran the tests. Got a failure on the SMART short test with 0x77. Running the SMART long test

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Long Cable Run...

Just completed long run of 500' of RG11. Put grounding blocks on post at top of mountain and stubbed into them with RG11. Used 8' of RG6 to run into dish LNB's. (RG11 wont fit.) At my house, the RG11 runs into (2) LA142a amplifiers. I used short stubs of RG11 from there into a HRPID1422 power insert

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Customer service horror story

I will try to be brief. Two months ago, police showed up at my home stating they were responding to a distress call. There was no call initiated from our end, so we called ATT and advised them of the potential crossed line. Over the next two months, I have had several technicians visit my home and f

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Same story

Well, wish I would have known about this forum before going with ATT Direct Steam and purchasing a new Samsung 65" Q80 TV for my finished basement. I have a direct ethernet connection and still getting quite a bit of the black screen, spinning and picture returns after about 4-5 seconds.  Very

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A story and then some questions.

I'll start my story, and then at the end I'd like to ask a few questions that I would publicly like to be answered. We'll start on 04/23/2014   I ordered a wireless reciever online.  I called to cancel my home phone since I find we -never- use it as all three members of our household have AT&T cell

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NFL short cuts week 2 on 704 and 705

Anybody know what is up? I have the NFL Sunday Ticket and was just watching 705 short cuts. Was unable to get 704 at the same time. Now that the short cut that was on 705 is over it says, as does channel 704, that channel not purchased. ??? The Packers short cut is supposed to be on 705 now and 704

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American Horror Story

Why is the finale of Apocalypse not playing? I'm paying for this and can't even finish the season.

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I got this call back in March 2021, so I did the deal. Make a long story short I received my $75 visa card today

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$75 Gift Card offered along with Showtime Free for 3 months

I was contacted 3 months ago by someone claiming to be from DirectTV (AT&T) trying to convince to get a 3-month trial for Showtime. I told them I was not interested as we do not have time to watch the package we have now so having more channels would be pointless.  He told me if I did try,

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Can DVR record short clips and not entire show from beginning?

I have just changed over from Dish network.  My wife always recorded short clips from multiple shows every evening for me to watch the next day.  Is the Whole Home DVR capable of recording short clips?  As it seems to operate, it begins "tracking" a show the instant that channel is selected.  When "

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Cancellation Horror story

I called and canceled my direct tv service in January 25, 2021 and was given a cancellation number. Direct tv still billed me for one month of service after I sent the equipment back via UPS on February 1, 2021 and cancelled the service January 25, 2021. It is one big scam led by Direct tv.  Y

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can the uverse dvr record short clips and not an entire show from the beginning

Is it possible to record short clips using the UVerse DVR?  So far, any attempt to record a short clip results in the DVR recording the entire program from the beginning of the program, even though the recording was initiated quite far into viewing the show.  The DISH DVR that I used before changing

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Recorded DVR programs cut short for commercial breaks

I recently recorded a few missed episodes to my DVR.   I will also note that the recordings where from the On Demand option on the DVR. While watching my recording I noticed that the program would be cut short for what seemed to be preprogrammed commercial breaks.  Meaning the viewer misses out on k

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Short Coaxial Cable

i had to move my tv to another wall. now the coaxial cable is to short. the cable is threaded through the outside wall. so there is no way to pull the cable through. how do i get the cable to reach the reciever?

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short cable cord

I recently had a problem with my TV channels and had a Tech come out to get it fixed. Well today I wanted to move my TV to a different place and when I went to pull out more cable it was too short. When the tech came out to fix my problem he left about 8 feet of cable laying out in my yard, I guess

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Long HDMI Cables Don't Work?

My TV is up over fireplace and I need 20' of HMDI to reach my setup. The tv recognizes that Directv Stream as the input but I'm getting 'no signal' trying several different cables/combination.  With one config, I got it to work but with slight flickering.  Using a short cable, it works fi

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phone connection causes phone line to have a dead short

After the last thunder storm my phone line connected to one of my DirecTv controllers caused a dead short to my phone line. This obviously is not good to my phone service or my purchasing PPV channels.  I tried several times resetting the controller to no avail. Phone company tested the line when co

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programs running short

I see this on there,,but no answer..a few shows have been recorded about three minutes short.. we have missed the cliffhanger end! help!!!

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