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Watching on Satellite
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Paramount + Showtime
When does Direct TV become "partner" of Paramount Plus? When and how do we access the streaming service through Direct TV. As of today, Direct TV is now shown as a "partner".
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Limitation on number of simultanious recordings/viewings...
We have a satellite-based hr44-500 with three Genies. We are only allowed to record + watch a maximum of two shows. If we wish to record two different channels simultaniously, and watch a third channel, we get the "must cancel one recording or change to one of the channels being recorded" message. I
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Lightning Strike
There was a lightning strike on a tree 20ft. from the house, last Sunday. There was static electricity, discharge in the house that caused quite a scare to the family. Even though the power was off at the time, I lost eight pieces of equipment including the satellite receiver, TV, DVD player, NAS, a
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Using Directv with Alexa!
I paid thousands of dollars for this equipment that was supposed to work flawlessly, and it does not, for example, if I'm watching directv and I ask Alexa to change the channel, it actually changes the INPUT to my Firestick and starts trying to find some app to use there, even though I erased the di
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No local channels and most channels will not stream
App has no local channels and most channels come up with this message. Not available to stream on this device. These are all channels I have had no issues with in the past. Thank you for the help.
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Anyone else have an outage on Wed. 07/23/25 at 8:04 PDT?
The screen froze and then went through the lengthy reset process for 8+ min. Fortunately the program was repeated at 2 a.m. so I could see the missing minutes.
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Why are not all my subscribed channels available for streaming?
I’m logged into my account on the app and not receiving all of my subscriptions channels. Usually I do, but recently they are missing. I have satellite tv not the streaming service. Did this get taken away for satellite users?
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Starz Promotion
I recently received an email to add Starz for $5.49 per month for 3 months. I attempted to add the channel the same day (3/07/2025) and the monthly rate showed as $10.99 with no discount. I called customer service and was offered a $4 credit for the month to get the channel for $6.99 for a single mo
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so what appended to Double Play ( switch back & forth between 2 channels?
so what appended to Double Play ( switch back & forth between 2 channels )? Double Play was working Sat. 7-19-2025, however today Sun. 7-20-2025 does not seem to work any more?
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