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New DVR coming - wife panicking about lost shows

I thought I'd do something nice for my wife for Mother's Day, so I replaced our 32" CRT with a 47" HDTV and upgraded our package to include HD. This required us to buy a new receiver. All was well and good until this evening when she asked me if there was a way to retrieve the shows off the old DVR

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Because of the weather(snow) we have lost reception

Because of the weather(snow) we have lost reception for the last 5 hours and our dish is on the roof of our apartment building so we can't get up there to brush it off.  Can  you help us with this.

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Afternoon lost of signal

Everyday starting around 1pm to about 4 or 5 pm we lost signal on our dual receiver system. Signal strength is zip. It works fine in the morning and evenings.

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How to add my wife as an authorized user

How to add my wife as an authorized user?

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DVR box freezes up then resets by itself...and p*ssing the wife off

While watching regular programming or DVR recording, pictures freezes up then resets itself.  This happens throught out the day.  Anyone else has this issue.  Wife calls the box trash.  Resetting box, unplugging the receiver and resetting modem does not fix this so I do not wamt to hear try that.  T

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Wife and I love DirecTV

Wife and I have loved DirecTV, especially their customer service department, for about 17 years.  For Internet, I started with SBC, then they became AT&T, after they started Uverse, moved my POTS phone to Uverse.  Even though I only have to call on them maybe once a year, I do not like AT&T's custom

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Lost specific channels because of package downgrade

Of the hundreds of channels that are offered, why have I lost two (2) of the ONLY four (4) channels specifically programmed for the African American audience simply because I downgraded my package?

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Lost Everything

After an automatic update and reset today I have lost everything. The receiver is acting like it is brand new. I have lost the following:1. To Do List 2. Series Manager 3. All recordings (On my external hard drive) 4. Not even sure it is recognizing the external hard drive. I have tried doing 3 rest

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Lost recordings

Has anyone EVER found/received a reason why or solution for recordings being lost from a Uverse DVR?  I have read some conversations on the forum but haven't seen any solutions or answers. We have had this happen 4 times since the beginning of the year on 3 different DVRs.  Every technician says tha

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Lost Local Channels

I have lost some of my local channels. I only receive channels 15 and 25. Channels 7,9,12,13 and 14 no longer come in. I get the info and description for the channels/shows but no picture. It is just a black screen. For about 2 days the screen said searching for satellite signal (771)..., but now it

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LOST SIGNAL ISSUE

Ok.....i have about had it.  Service tech came out today to check my connect because we kept getting the onscreen msg saying signal was lost.....sometimes it would come back on its on....sometimes i had to reboot that reciever.  Well he replaced the Gateway, WAP, and the DVR box and said we should n

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Signal Lost

ATT U-verse  Signal Lost ????  It's been 6 days.  None of your suggestions will work to get it started again.  Now what?

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Lost Most of my channel line-up

Yesterday I switched from U450 to U200 through the online account management tool.  Today I have all HD channels are blocked, as are many other U200 channels.  I should have lost only the premium channels, along with a few random others.  Is there a reset I need to do to enable the new channel line-

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Wireless connection lost

Message says wireless video bridge connection lost on one of the Genies

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Lost channels

Called yesterday for better rate and now 2 of my 3 TVs have lost some channels

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Lost History

On my R15 set, I have lost all history before 11/20/2011.  Also lost all recordings before that date.  Everything has worked since that date. Also have two HDVRs that worked fine. Any ideas?

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What happened to WWME & WMEU

I used to get it. Lost it a week or two ago. My wife is very disappointed.

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lost recordings

A couple days ago we lost about 1/3 of our recordings for no reason, the drive was only around 60% full and did not show any programs about to be erased. Any ideas why this happened??

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Lost recordings!

anyone lost recorded shows without deleting?

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lost channels

we lost WSWB and NBC not happy at all, if i change to Dish i have to pay 180.00  but if i keep losing Channels & paying the same price it will be worth it. Get it together or myself and i'm sure a lot of other customers will be right behind me.

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