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hdrive crashed need to extract a few precious recordings off of it

on rare occasion my dogs get on tv, a few commercials and a movie. I did not get the chance to back them up on dvr and they no longer air. Is there any way to retrieve them? It is a direct tv hd dvr.

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Sorry to have "Hijacked" your thread. The system did not give me the option to begin a new one. Didn't mean to step on your precious toes by making a mistake.

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Trying to Setup Mediashare

I have four HD-DVRs- two HR-20 700s, a HR-23 700 and a HR-24 500.  They are all networked together with Cat 6 ethernet, and Whole Home DVR and internet connectivity are functional on all of them.  I have a home computer running Windows XP with Service Pack 3 that is also connected to the network.  T

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@JefferMC lol (Edited per community guidelines) does have to do with this topic? If your precious channels are so great they will survive when the rest of cut out the cancer.

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Remove Fox News, OAN, Newsmax

I have discussed on both the technical support chat and phone removing Fox News, OAN and Newsmax from my subscriptions but was told it was not possible. These 3 channels are all part of all packages deals offered by DirectStream so the technical support people were not able to help me.  Both s

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Isn't One America also know as the American's for Prosperity propaganda network? The Koch brothers have to be behind it. Can't think of a bigger waste of precious Uverse bandwidth. They better be paying for placement - this is the antithesis of indep

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One America News Gets U-Verse Berth

From the link below:   Herring Networks said its One America News Network has reached a deal to be launched by AT&T U-verse TV across the country.      One America News Network will soon join the U-verse channel lineup in the cable news neighborhood on channel 208 in standard definition and on chan

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Agreed with dhascall. If a channel is hidden from the guide, it shouldn't show up in the search. I remember before a precious update, hidden SD channels of HD counterparts wouldn't show in search.But yeah, the adult channels...no excuse there.

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Tell AT&T U-Verse to remove Pornography from their search listings!

We have 4 and 8 year old children who frequently do searches for thier favorite shows in the Guide/Search area of our AT&T U-Verse DVR. If our boys are looking for their show 'Teen Titans GO' they also find, with Pornography listed first, 'Teen XXXX',   We called AT&T to notify them of this issue,

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Quote: Originally Posted by djdicetn worth(probably recorded between 300-400 good quality DVD's off that puppy over the years). thanks dj, because of people like yourself is why we have HDCP......... glad you did not loose your precious movie collect

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Questions About BIST

Twice this week(Monday & Friday), when I got home from work my HR20-700 was powered on and I could not determine what was causing it to power itself on. Last night(Friday) I was watching a movie that I recently recorded in my Playlist and when the movie reached approximately the 15 minute mark it ab

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Yes they screwed up and it is a hassle.  But for goodness sake you are only  going to be losing your precious tv service for 24 hours and then DirecTV will kick in. Put things in perspective, be happy you have your health and family and friends, don'

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U-Verse TV Disconnection

Yesterday I called ATT to discuss my options for reducing the cost of my U-verse TV.  I was offered DirectTV as an option and I let the customer service rep convince me that it was a good option and agreed to switch to DirectTV.  I was assured several times that my U-verse TV would not be interrupte

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@bman3333 wrote:Isn't One America also know as the American's for Prosperity propaganda network? The Koch brothers have to be behind it. Can't think of a bigger waste of precious Uverse bandwidth. They better be paying for placement - this is the ant

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One America News Gets U-Verse Berth

From the link below:   Herring Networks said its One America News Network has reached a deal to be launched by AT&T U-verse TV across the country.      One America News Network will soon join the U-verse channel lineup in the cable news neighborhood on channel 208 in standard definition and on chan

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I don't know wht their precious "OnDemand" was like, but I totally agree. You can't get the series you are looking for, You have to wait to find the latestepisode, I have had lots of cable services and their "ON Demand" was more user friebdly and you

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why did they change the format of tv shows on demand and whats with all that anime crap

used to be able to see free tv shows like csi new orleans but now it seems all that is in that category is anime japenese crap bring back the regular tv shows I don't want to look thru all the networks to find my shows now it takes to much time to navigate to find my shows so on demand is practially

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It will return when the corporation that owns your local CBS channel allows DirecTV to carry their signal again. This has become an all too common negotiating tactic by station corporations to extort more of our subscriber dollars. Contact the corpor

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Loss of channels

AT&T has failed to properly prepare for the  anticipated end of contract negotiation with Nexstar - resulting in the loss of ABC station, a MAJOR network. This continues to happen, as in the past, when other channels were removed from the lineup - as your customers continue to pay increased costs in

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It wasn't really an optional thing. The guy told me it had to be third party because they cannot get off their precious ladder and actually get on the roof and do the job lol. So instead of providing additional training did the Saint forget the pupil

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Technician won't get on the roof

So last week I was so excited. For the first time ever I was going to get DirecTV. Called, got approved with my landlord and everything. It was official and set up I was going to get DirecTV today. I took off work, made sure I was up early as the install time was between 9 and 11. The technician com

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The station will return when the corporation that owns your local channel allows DirecTV to carry their signal again. This has become an all too common negotiating tactic by station corporations to extort more of our subscriber dollars. And it happen

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Loss of channels

AT&T has failed to properly prepare for the  anticipated end of contract negotiation with Nexstar - resulting in the loss of ABC station, a MAJOR network. This continues to happen, as in the past, when other channels were removed from the lineup - as your customers continue to pay increased costs in

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So I found a precious thread and someone said to hold the red button for 30 seconds to factory reset my new genie mini. It changed the aspect ratio and I pushed the add client button again on the 2. Then got to the add new client screen, which I didn

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Genie 2 won’t add 4th wireless genie mini

Been on the phone with directv for 3 hours. On the second genie mini in two weeks. I tried by myself the first time and failed. Att sent a new box and told me to call them so they could walk me through it. This rep was bad. Still can’t add new client. Doesn’t even get to the add new location scree.

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It will return when the corporation that owns your local channel allows DirecTV to carry their signal again. This has become an all too common negotiating tactic by station corporations to extort more of our subscriber dollars. And it happens to all

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Loss of channels

AT&T has failed to properly prepare for the  anticipated end of contract negotiation with Nexstar - resulting in the loss of ABC station, a MAJOR network. This continues to happen, as in the past, when other channels were removed from the lineup - as your customers continue to pay increased costs in

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Just a note to anyone looking at this. Customer service has been no help. As expected, they say the problem is with my browser on my end, and that I should reset my browser to default settings. I have tried three different browsers on 2 different com

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Premium movies will not load on Uverse.com

Although I have U-300, which includes several premium channels, when I try to watch them on Uverse.com, they will not load. All I get is a spinning disc. Non-premium movies will play, so it is not it is not an issue with java or my flashplayer as Uverse customer service suggests. I tried a differren

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Understood, please remember that wireless didn't work with any security applied (neither Security Mode nor MAC filtering), but thank you for that advice anyway, and I did found the problem. It seems that the DirecTV [Model: DCAW1R0-1] which works wir

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Connect Whole House HD-DVR to Wireless Router WITH Security Working

I have the Whole House HD-DVR with one [Model: HR24/100] and one DVR [Model: H16/500]. This upgrade was done with a competent DirecTv installer, but he didn’t have the answer to this problem. He did leave the installation with everything working.I also have a Linksys WRT45G Version 6; wired/wireless

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"View Upcoming" No Longer Shows No. of "NEW" episodes

Due to the new look, I almost missed all my favorite season premieres because the program guide no longer indicates "NEW" episode in the 'View Upcoming'. In setting up my 'To Record' episodes for the week, the "New" was my guide. Otherwise, I would have to search and review EVERY episode of EVERY sh

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The station will return when the corporation that owns your local channel allows DirecTV to carry their signal again. This has become an all too common negotiating tactic by station corporations to extort more of our subscriber dollars. And it happen

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Loss of channels

AT&T has failed to properly prepare for the  anticipated end of contract negotiation with Nexstar - resulting in the loss of ABC station, a MAJOR network. This continues to happen, as in the past, when other channels were removed from the lineup - as your customers continue to pay increased costs in

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@Littledarlen wrote: Not able to watch my local channel, directv not useful.... The station will return when the corporation that owns your local channel allows DirecTV to carry their signal again. This has become an all too common negotiating tacti

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Loss of channels

AT&T has failed to properly prepare for the  anticipated end of contract negotiation with Nexstar - resulting in the loss of ABC station, a MAJOR network. This continues to happen, as in the past, when other channels were removed from the lineup - as your customers continue to pay increased costs in

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@Tisha1 wrote: Is Direct tv in contract negotiations? Channel is off the air??? The station will return when the corporation that owns your local channel allows DirecTV to carry their signal again. This has become an all too common negotiating tacti

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Loss of channels

AT&T has failed to properly prepare for the  anticipated end of contract negotiation with Nexstar - resulting in the loss of ABC station, a MAJOR network. This continues to happen, as in the past, when other channels were removed from the lineup - as your customers continue to pay increased costs in

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