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Wednesday, December 14th, 2022 7:55 PM

DVR for Sports Game Shows the Score in Description Field

I recently DVR'd a sports game. Unfortunately, as I went to watch the game (not live), the description of the event included the live score which ruins, in my opinion, watching the game with the anticipation of not knowing the score.

I love the DirecTV Stream service, but highly recommend removing the game's score from a DVR recording description.

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ACE - Expert

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1.2K Messages

2 years ago

Do you have the "Show  Game Scores" option enabled?  That might be the issue.

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2 years ago

That request won’t get anywhere on a public forum. If you’d like your feedback to be relayed to the right department, either call DIRECTV STREAM (number in my greeting below) or contact them on social media.

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8 Messages

2 years ago

I'll go that route, thank you

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7 Messages

2 years ago

thats crazy! i've never seen that happen with my directv satellite dvr recordings or my hulu live recordings

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8 Messages

2 years ago

First time I've seen it happen as well! I'd post the picture but I don't want to be the role of spoiler either!

ACE - New Member

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2 years ago

@dessinge 

It may be an issue with the DIRECTV STREAM side of things as DIRECTV STREAM and DIRECTV satellite have big differences as far as DVR functionality. But, for such a thing to happen on a title, that does seem quite odd.

@ryansheehan13 

No problem. Please report back if your issue does ever get resolved. I’d been interested to see if it was just a bug with that specific recording’s title or a huge problem. 

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DIRECTV STREAM support: 1(888)429-4023

DIRECTV for BUSINESS support: 1(800)388-2505

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8 Messages

2 years ago

Will do, thank you. I'm going to see if it was just the world cup match or if a hockey game has the same result as well.

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8 Messages

2 years ago

I checked and it was enabled. I have it disabled and will test on the next game

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8 Messages

2 years ago

I checked the game score enable and that seemed to do the trick! Just have dashes next to the score now in the DVR menu 

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6 Messages

2 years ago

Same thing happened to me.  Two recorded games were spoiled before I learned about this new setting.   

That was a very dumb thing to make "show scores" the default setting!  You've got to think whoever made that decision wasn't a sports fan.  

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6 Messages

2 years ago

Crap!...the score was displayed when I selected the recording just now of a game I started recording 90 minutes ago.    I turned the "Show Scores" toggle to off yesterday (in Settings).   Double checked it just now.   It's still set to off.

Very frustrating.   What else can I do to fix this?!

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8 Messages

2 years ago

Not sure! Toggling the game score setting did the trick for me. The headache was I had to do it on each box/tv I use DirecTV Stream on. Found out later that day when I tried to watch a game in a different room and that one ruined the score for me 

If it's still doing that on yours I'm lost for other ideas

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6 Messages

2 years ago

Ah, I see, thanks.   I had changed the setting by logging into directv.com on the web and going to Preferences, which is where I found the game score setting.   It was still set to On in my TV preferences, but I just changed that so, based on your experience, I'll probably be good to go now.

Thanks a lot Ryan.   

I still don't even have a guess about who would want to see scores for their sports recordings..

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8 Messages

2 years ago

Glad that did the trick and no problem! 

Really surprised that the system defaulted to showing but hopefully you're good to go now too!


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