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Suspicious AT&T van consistently parking in neighborhood, danger to the children

One of your service van is parked illegally in our neighborhood. Been here for the past two week, Van #[edited for privacy – please do not post personal information] Get this van out of here if it's not doing AT&T service work. It's a danger to the neightborhood and a safety issue for the child

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How do I block purchases so that my children cant rent/buy movies?

How do I put a pass code or lock on movie and channel purchases so that my children can not rent/buy movies?

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Cable needs to get with the times. People no longer want to subscribe to a fixed list of channels.

People want to select channels a la carte. We don't want to subsidize cable channels that provide unneeded services. For example, I would be happy to eliminate ALL sports channels from my selection as well as ALL FOX channels. The tide has already started shifting to people just watching what they w

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The problem is that your only choices are (a) channel and (b) content rating. You cannot block, for example, all episodes of "Sponge Bob," without blocking all shows with the same content rating or on the same channel. I do not know of any provide

JefferMC

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10 years ago

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Channel Block should be program block

I have a 4 year old grand daughter that was told not to watch Sponge Bob I cannot block Sponge Bob and cannot block that channel becuse everything else she watches is on that same channel. Come on Uverse give us a way to block a program not a channel.

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Actually, I am from a joint family that's why I want to secure food and any type of drink from children that should not better for them. For it, I am interested in buying the latest fridge locks for adults. Can you provide me?

camronshaw1

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3 years ago

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DirecTV dish at our house from previous owner

We do not have DirecTV, but the previous owner left a dish at our house. How do I get DirecTV to remove the dish?

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The Big Switch

I made the switch from standard TV to HD. Went through the step w/ DirecTV techincal support on the phone to get the HD channels. However, I failed to realize until I hung up that I not longer had sound on the TV. I'm not sure where I went wrong! Can you please try to steer me correctly so my childr

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Revoke recording privileges

Is there a way to prevent my children from recording shows on the DVR? I

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Yea and what about those of us with work in the morning and infant children with the babytv channel on all night to distract them. I'd like them to sleep through the storm which they do this way until that LOUD ALERT BLARES SCARING THEM EVEN WORSE t

Shane777888

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7 years ago

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Disable Sever Weather Alerts

Is there a way to disable the Severe Weather Alerts I am receiving from Weather on Demand? I find them extremely irritating and annoying.

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Blocking purchases from remote

I need to stop my children from purchasing shoes without permission

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lack of parental concerns

I called customer service twice regarding my Account. I am disappointed with the Lack of parental controls set on our family account!! My child was able to order multiple children's movies without permission due to lack of parental controls. This was not an issue with previous cable companies that

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Watching DIRECTV

I also value the bundling of services provided; however, the U200 has plenty of channels that are targeted at niche audiences, none of which I am participate in and most of which would have a smaller following than the LHN. Many of those channels ha

Texas2011

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14 years ago

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Longhorn Network - Just say 'No'

I greatly appreciate the value provided by AT&T in bundling tv/wireless/internet services. Similarly, the bundling of channels allows customers to access a variety of programming at substantial savings. However, occasionally, programming comes along that is so expensive and directed at such a narro

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Parental Control and Screen Guide Setup are Pathetic

I have young children in the house and am sick-n-tired of the adult channel BS and inability to hide it with any assurance that it wont show.The controls to hide this is terrible and having a chance that my children might come across the title and/or description of these channels is making me uncomf

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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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On the childrens DVR/receiver you can set it to not share in the setup menu. However, the children can change it back at will, assuming they can locate the menu. You could also install a band stop filter on the coax feeding their DVR, but again, th

dcd

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13 years ago

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Can you limit the playlist to specific receivers?

I have the whole home DVR system and 3 receivers (2 HD DVRs and 1 HD). Can I limit the playlist sharing to just one one of the receivers and block the 3rd from receiving it. My kid's have one tv and I don't want them able to review/watch/delete any of the programs on my playlist. However, I do wa

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Terrific. I just got all of them upgraded. My shows keep getting deleted by children and I wanted to lock it. Any other options?

Pbelo

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3 years ago

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delete from this room only

I set up the whole home with yes share playlist. Delete from this room only, but I can still delete from the other rooms. What else can I try?

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Multiple Directv credentials

Is it possible to set up additional user credentials so that my children can use Directv credentials with their apps without giving them full access to all of my AT&T and Directv accounts?

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Searching For Satellite (771)

For the last two nights, I have been unable to view channels 202 or 265 due to Searching For Satellite. Those were the ONLY channels affected (Yes, I scrolled through all of them.) A restart took care of the problem each time, but natually the DVR records what it sees. Why would only 2 channels be

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I would consider children to be “our most treasured population”.

CableGuy0399

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PLEASE IMPLEMENT SPECIAL RATES FOR SUPER SENIOR CITIZENS THAT ARE 75YRS AND OLDER

Please implement special rates for super Seniors (75yrs and up). I talked my mother into ATT because we have it and now her rates have hiked to over $235 monthly for home phone, internet and tv. We called to request it be lowered back to what she was paying $178 and were told th

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Unused TV boxes how do I return just those

We do not need all the boxes now as children have moved out. How do I send those extra boxes back. Tired of paying for them and they are not being used.

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Blocking mature ads

We were watching on demand and an ad for a mature TV show with mature content came on. We have no way to skip the ad and it was a show our children were watching, obviously not one with a mature rating. Is there a way to stop these?

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