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Phase III dish

My slimline is set up to recieve 99, 101 and 103 (2 degree spread)The old phase III was used for 101, 110, 119 (9 degree spread)Will the old Phase III be able to deal with the 2 degree spread???

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Phase III dish

There are two coax cables coming from the phase III dish, the one with side LNB's. If I want to use this camping can I hook up an H25-500 or an HR22-250 to the dish? If only using one tv can I hook up directly to the dish or do I need a multiswitch?

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Phase III 5 tuners

The Phase III dish only has four outs and I need to feed three D12's and a R22 (2x tuner DVR). What type of multi-switch setup should I be using? Or would it make more sense to use a SWiM-type ODU?

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Convert a DirecTV Phase III Satellite Dish to get Ka?

Is it possible to convert a DirecTV Phase III Satellite Dish to receive the Ka band ?

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Channels not used but part of the package.

Why do all packages contain Spanish channels as part of there package, 400-499, and then are counted as part of the say 350 channel package when I don't use them nor do i speak Spanish. That's 99 channels i'm paying for but never used.

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Making a Folder with certain movies in it.

I want to put my Godfather movies in one folder

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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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Can I connect a Bose 321 III to my Direct TV Genie using a HDMI cable?

I have a Sony Bravia TV and a Bose 321 III sound system connecting to a Direct TV Genie. I have made all the connections and everything works fine except I cannot seem to get the sound to come through my Bose system using an HDMI cable connection. Do I have to use a A104-03M optical cable for the a

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Not part of your tv package

I have espn, espn u, espn 2, etc. Everything but espn plus. It's all part of my direct tv package. All of the sudden, roughly three weeks ago, when I tried to stream an espn live game, the message it's not part of your tv package comes on. I called direct tv and the rep says you don't have espn plus

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Only part of my recording is playing.

I have had trouble with only part of my recordings showing. I watch Alone and I watch Mountain Men and with both shows it says they are an hour long and the recording says they recorded and hour but when I play either one they play about 20 minutes and then it says it is finished and do I want to de

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Vacation hold for only part of Uverse services

We will be vacationing for a couple of months and only want to have the TV part put on vacation hold as we have an alarm system and security cameras that use the wireless network and need to access the cameras while we are gone.  Does anyone know if this is possible?

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Need a part for HD dish

Just had a horrendous hail storm  Broke the Outside cover for the main LNB receiver(the big one).  Its a Slimline model. Any ideas on how to get a new one, short of having a Diredt TV rep come out.  All I need is the part and I'll replace it.   Thanks for any inputs

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Deleting part of a recording

Here is the situation- I have recorded a recent Packer game that I went to in HD. Paranoid that it might go into overtime, I set the recording to go over by 2 hours. Well, the game didn't. Since it is in HD, that extra 2 1/2 hours of the recording is taking up a lot of space. Question- is there a wa

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Game not a part of Sunday ticket?

So wanted to check out NO vs. GB and I go to play it and I get the message saying this game is not part of Sunday Ticket so I can't watch it. Anyone else getting this message? I thought the point of the Sunday ticket was having access to every game no matter when or where?

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DVR Records Full Program, Only Plays Back Part

I have an at&t U-verse VIP2262 DVR. It shows a fully recorded program, but only plays part of the program. Sometimes it will not play first part, other times the last part. Other programs it plays fully. I've rebooted several times.

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That's probably because the geometry of the Phase III dish is designed to line up on the 110 satellite whereas the slimline is aligned on 101, so you should probably start with the Phase III settings, but of course with a mismatched dish and LNB, any

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Tailgating Info

For you tailgaters out there that are spoiled like I am and are having difficulty get other games in HD here is something I did with success - at least from my driveway. Upon the suggestion of a poster on DBSTalk, I put my SL3 on a Phase III dish. Set the elevation and tilit on the Phase III to what

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Is Strike Zone channel 719 part of Extra Innings

Is Strike Zone channel 719 part of Extra Innings package? The DirecTV website says it is but I have Extra Innings and I'm not getting that channel.

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Maybe the OP actually has a 3-LNB Phase III dish?

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CHANGE LNB'S FOR HD

I currently have a older AU-9 3 LNB dish that was left on my house.  Now that the HD programs have changed to differantSatelittes, Can I just change to a SL3 4 output and use the same back plane and make no other changes in my wiring?

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DVR Stopped being part of my wholeDVRnetwork

one of my DVR stopped being part of my home wholeDVR network. i have three DVRs and one of them just disconnected i have reset, unplugged, etc and nothing how do i get it setup again ???

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