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Saturday, February 22nd, 2020 3:04 PM

Can I take my hd24-200 reciever to temporarily watch tv at a friends house?

I will be housesitting for a friend and will be extremely bored without my DirecTV. At one time he had DirecTV service with the same HD DVR as I have. All of his stuff is still connected. Can I replace his existing HD DVR with my HD DVR that I pay ungodly sums of money for? It seems to me it should be possible since it would be possible to watch it through my phone if I was able to connect my phone to his TV. And no I do not want to watch it on my little 5 and 1/2 inch phone screen.

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5 years ago

That would be H24 or HR24 as there is no HD24.

If your friend had the exact same model and same cabling setup, then as long as there is not current service there it should work. Service for RSNs, locals, and taxes you pay are for a single physical address. But if you are going to be there a couple weeks or so it doesn't really become an issue.

The DirecTV app doesn't allow connecting phone to TV. This is to prevent people from having full service at a 2nd household as violates how the service is regulated by the FCC to the physical service address as mentioned above.

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If you get outside of your local channels spot beam then you will lose all local channels.

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Thanks for the info despite my typo. So you can't mirror your phone screen onto your tv? Sometimes it seems like technology gets us nowhere.

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So you can't mirror your phone screen onto your tv?

No. The Directv app specifically blocks that. You probably can with network apps, just not the Directv app.

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It comes down to you pay for each authorized TV. Mirroring from phone would get around that.

DirecTV is regulated as satellite service. Remember your local channels, regional sports received, and taxes you pay are based on your physical service address. They have limited allowance for streaming on phone, but not sending that to TV or would violate how they are regulated.

Some individual channels have their own apps for TV streaming devices, and give you access to further content if you log in with your provider. So that is a small exception on a channel by channel basis.

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Thank you


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