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Home Theater Room in new house

Hi, I am in the process of having a new house built, and am going to make the bonus room into a home theater/game room. I plan on having multiple TV's in the room (2-3) so we can watch multiple games (am a big College/NFL football fan). Is there a way to hook up these TVs so that I don't have to hav

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Extending uVerse to Man Cave

Hello, I am not new to uVerse, but I do have a setup question. I am building a Man Cave in a shop in my backyard and want to have uVerse out there. My question is, can I just run Cat6 from the house to the shop, or do I also need to have coax also? I have conduit between the two with a single Cat6 r

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Where is the BPL Man City match???

What U-verse channel has April 30 Man City match???

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Man Up! C'mon!

Rather ridiculous when I get a "service call" from a local DIRECTV subcontractor who tells me they cannot put in an additional drop in my house because it is in "a already finished area" of my basement & will be too difficult to access! C'mon! Who is DIRECTV hiring these days as subs? If all I neede

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Setting up my man cave. Where to start?

I am about to buy a house that has an upstairs bonus room that I am going to turn into a "man cave". I have no idea where to start so please forgive me if I am too vague. I am really just looking for a starting point. There are is no existing satellite or anything. We will have a tv in the living ro

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Installation on side of house

Can the dish be installed on the side of the house or does it have to be on the roof?

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splitting signal to rest of house

I installed a new vcr/dvd recorder and prior to that the signal was sent to the rest of the house through a splitter setup by installer.  Now I can get receiver & vcr/dvd to work with my (which has to have a rf output box) but when I try to attach connector to send to rest of house it doesn't receiv

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U Verse Wireless Receiver works in every room of the house except the living room

For years we had our TV set up on an interior wall of our living room. We decided to flip our layout and hang the TV on the opposite wall, which is an exterior wall on the end of our house. The wiring comes into the house on the opposite end of the house, so rather than run the wiring under the floo

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Removal of Equipment that caused damage to house

When the installer put the antenna on my parents house he drilled a hole in the brick of the house and it is now causing a leak. I need someone to remove the equipment and fix the damage that was caused by the incorrect installation. 

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U-verse gateway won't reach both ends of the house

I have U-verse and there doesn't seem to be a good place to put the U-verse gizmo such that it reaches both ends of my S-shaped house without issues.    AT&T says I'm only allowed 1 gizmo.   What other solutions are available, can I hard-wire the cable boxes somehow?   Like if I get an ethernet swit

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remodel house

We did a remodel of our house and moved into the garage during construction. we had the dish and router moved to the garage.we are now ready to move back into the house and need the router moved back into the house  but want to keep the dish on the garage and keep the tv in the garage hooked up.how

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Whole House DVR

I had an installer out at the house today to swap out both of my receivers , he installed (2) HR24/100 HD/DVR receivers...I still cannot get my whole house DVR service to work.  The Status says authorized, No networked DVRs found...any ideas

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building new house

I'm building a new house and want to be able to take advantage of the new whole house DVR and have the wires to all TV's in place before the sheetrock for a hidden installation.  Will I need coax between all of the receivers or just home runs to the DVR location?  Just one wire to each location?  Ca

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No signal to the house

Looking for help. We had a tech come out to the house to set up ATT Uverse in the house. The tech did all the work inside the house, but said that there was no signal in the outside box. He said that he would have to have the engineering department come and fix this. But he wasn't sure when they wou

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POSITIVE REVIEW - THIS MAN NEEDS A RAISE

So, I need to give a HUGE shout out to Tayvon/Customer Service. Someone needs to give that man a raise! He helped me out IMMENSELY today. He went above and beyond what most Customer Service reps do. My service was cut by accident and he got everything back up and running without a problem, and even

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Paint on ground in front of house

Recently AT&T did some digging and work on cable in front of my house and my neighbors which lasted over a week. Several utilities (gas, electric) spray painted signs in front of our houses and on our property to indicate buried pipes and wires.  We were told the paint would be power clean

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Help my direct TV receiver upgrade!!!

Hey guys, My old directtv boxes are starting to spaz out so I called directtv and they said I was eligible for an equipment upgrade because I have the protection plan.I have 4 TV's in my house and an RV.-4k TV in our bedroom,-Father in law has cancer and is living with us and had a TV in his room.-4

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Whole House Primer?

Hi  All,Does a "Whole House Primer" exist?I would like a pretty deep understanding of the technology (up to a point) before I pursue.BTW - By deep I am looking to understand what wiring is required, what boxes are required (IE will me current box work?) and a bit more of all of the capablities.Reaso

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Is direct TV going to replace uverse

I young man stopped at my house today saying that UVerse is going to be replaced by Direct TV. Is this true? If so I may go back to cable.

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I need to contact the district manager for the White House, TN AT & T store.

Can you send me their phone number?  Thanks.

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