Recent content by drx6

in theory, yes. that's what I thought too. but the support guys on the DirecTV.com boards said otherwise. I trust them better than my hunches :) Particularily because I'm new to D* - having formerly been a Dish customer for 11 years!

That was the first thing I tried (didn't work), but then it was explained to me: you can choose a different LNB in the set-up, but that doesn't change the LNB it's using. The receiver still recognizes the other LNB's are there, even if they're 'inactive' according to the receiver set-up. It's...

the solution - replacing the 5-lnb assembly with a 3-lnb assembly. I do not have line of sight of 119 - and even though I wasn't getting any programming from 119, the 'missing' satellite was causing issues with the receiver. MLB: EI games all show up as they should and the 920 error I had...

I ordered it early and paid it in a lump sum. It's shows on my account and *i believe* they removed it and put it back on several times when I called in.

Had this happen to me back in January (I was a new install). the solution was to place 50 feet of cable between the wall and the receiver. The installer said some receivers have an issue with the signal coming in too 'hot' from the LNB's, that the only known fix is to run it through all that...

I've done the online reauthorization and the CSR's have done it a few times too. Neither seem to work without a reboot and card-pull. One other piece to the equation (which the guys at the DirecTV.com forum think might be the problem) is that I don't see the bird at 119 and occasionally get...

600's are fine (MASN in my area) even when the 700's are showing the black screen.

from the receiver to the tv? no difference. Not sure what that'd do, though. these 700 (MLBEI) channels are the only ones with problems. Everything else is fine.

My area is claimed by Washington, Baltimore, Philly, & Pittsburgh! Sometimes I'm surprised I can watch anything :confused: Good thing I'm not a fan of any of the local teams!

receiver: hd-dvr, HR-21(700) I reset it every day - that's the problem. It works after a red-button reset and a card pull. But something happens in the ensuing 24 hours that causes the channels to show nothing but black the next day. Until I do another red-button reset and card pull.

I'm guessing this is an isolated thing with me - drat..... :confused:

how do you make that request?

Don't worry, this isn't a blackout issue.... Well, actually to be more specific, it is. Every day when I tune to the MLB:EI channels, I get a black screen. No warning that the game is blacked out, no missing signal error, no error codes - just a black screen. For HD and SD channels. I...

As a follow-up to my initial posting about the 50ft of coax - the every night phenomenon of an 'error 771' is gone. I do, however, occasionally still get the 771 but it's random and I haven't figured out a common factor to the occurrences yet (probably happens once a week). What's more...

#32 here - this is my first foray into CE, having been a customer for just 45 days so far :)