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Been working on electronics since the 90s. get streaming/other services , Not worth it, new boxes have to be reset daily. Sometimes multiple times. Is there any fix?

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When is CBS going to return to the Houston area??

We’re fairly new to DIRECTV and didn’t really pay attention to the announcement that they were in negotiations with the company that provides the CBS feed in Houston a month or so ago. Having coming from N Texas and having Frontier we ever had blackouts due to renegotiations. We weee. Notified. But

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Upcoming shows and series

hi all, I'm wondering why there isn't a way to set a DVR recording for new (upcoming) content before the first episode airs. I've run into this problem multiple times with this service. For example I keep seeing commercials for upcoming programs that say "Set your DVR for Jan 1!" and yet when I sear

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Rented movie stopped halfway through

We rented a movie yesterday, we were halfway through it, and the screen went black and won’t play the rest of the movie. It expires tomorrow and we paid to rent it. Everything has been turned off and on multiple times, reset, etc. The internet connection is fine and all equipment is in working order

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Setting up On Demand

First of all, I live in an area that doesn't have internet (or broadband) service yet. We've had Directv for years and, with the old equipment that we had, we were able to order On Demand movies through the plugged in landline on the equipment. When we upgraded our equipment, the new equipment no lo

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On demand feea

I used to be able to record multiple seasons of a shows for free. Shows on channels that I am already paying for. Now I am being charged $2.99 an episode, for previous seasons. I am not sure what changed and why. I never got an email or any notice. I understand having to pay for shows on PPV, but if

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I cannot get volume/audio

I press the Vol button on my remove right and left but still no volume. I googled to see what I could do. The instructions said to go to the home button on my remote. I have Genie and cannot find a home button. I even looked up the schematic for the remote but no home button showed up.

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complaints

Local ABC stations - when will they return? If they are not, and soon, I will be cancelling my Directv service. I chose Directv over others because of what was included. If Directv isn’t going to deliver then I don’t need it. And no! I am not getting another device just to be able to get local chann

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What is DirectTV doing to keep NBC Channel 9 KUSA in Denver Colorado

I just saw a message on KUSA Channel 9 NBC that may not be able to access this channel on DirectTV after 11/30. I am terribly upset at this news. I want to know what DirectTV is doing to prevent this from happening. It seems that every couple of months I see an alert that this could happen on a chan

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Series manager List Gone

We had to get a new cable box as ours was having issues. I know the things that were already recorded would be lost but we also lost everything we set up in the Series Manager for future recordings. Is there anyway to get that back at all or will we need to re set up all the series recordings we had

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