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Buffering and restarts when fast forwarding

When I am watching DirecTV Stream recorded programs and fast forward at the commercials it will start buffering and then restart the program at the beginning. I check my internet speed and it is in the 250 to 350mbps, so it's not my connection. Appreciate any information that can be provided to elim

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LIBRARY of recordings does NOT show up on Windows 11 computer

I can see LIBRARY of recordings on my DVR and on my iPhone DirecTV APP but not on my Windows 11 PC computer. Is this a feature or a bug? Thank you. When I click on LIBRARY I get this (but no programs show up): My Purchases Want to add to your collection? You can buy or rent titles from a DIRECTV rec

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Direct tv Gemini app issues

All of a sudden some of the apps eg apple, starz, paramount are buffering constantly. It is not a network issue as apps on the lgtv itself work perfectly. Just annoying to have to keep switching remotes. I have rebooted everything including the Gemini and it’s still buffering. Netflix works fine in

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Streaming is always having issues

The stream app on my Smart tv will lose connection multiple times a day. Live sports come in blurry and lag. This is not an internet issue, because all my other apps work perfectly. This is the most frustrating experience. Thinking about changing streaming services.

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Guide Navigation Suggestion

On Roku OS, I noticed that a few other apps will allow you to move up & down a PAGE at a time by using the FF & RW buttons. These buttons do nothing (in the guide) in the DTV app. Moving up & down in the guide a PAGE at a time is helpful and would be nice to have in the DTV app. Thanks for so many o

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Manual padding/start/end times

I used to have DirecTV satellite now I have DirecTV streaming it's really frustrating that now when I record a show it cuts off the end of every show because there is no manual padding or manual start and end times. It would be wonderful if DirecTV could figure out a way to add the manual padding op

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Fast Forward Issue

We just switched from Xfinity to Directv. When we fast forwarded through commercials in Xfinity, after we pressed stop, xfinity would automatically reverse from that point about 6 seconds or so. Directv doesn't do this, which means whenever we stop it, we always miss some of the show or game we are

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ESPN Unlimited no longer working

I received ESPN unlimited a few months ago, activated it and it worked fine up until about a month ago and now I can't access it. It keeps telling me to link my provider, and the link doesn't show anymore in my tv package or account information, probably since it was already activated. How do I fix

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Different cloud DVR issues on 2 devices

I just signed up for Stream and I have some interesting things happening. I am using a Roku Streaming stick to do my viewing on one TV and the Directv app on my LG TV, and have unexpected things happening with each. The Roku stick looks like it's connected to my old Genie (which we plan on removing

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Recording from wrong channel

How do I tell it NOT to record from multiple channels?? It winds up recording very old shows on channels like Game Show Network!! I selected new and no reruns.

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