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    Lifetime Movie Network no longer in Choice package?

    Thanks for confirming -- that's a big help. I have no idea when/if I ever had this channel -- my wife likes it though and only reported it "missing" a couple of days ago. But, I guess it's possible she thought she was watching it, but was actually something else ...
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    Lifetime Movie Network no longer in Choice package?

    Thanks for the info. Hopefully someone with Choice can confirm whether or not they’re still receiving LMN via satellite — just curious if this problem is unique to my account.
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    Lifetime Movie Network no longer in Choice package?

    721 error when turning to 253. If I'm looking at the same channel lineup that you are, I did notice that for Choice, it says that LMN is "satellite only." I'm actually have the opposite experience, where I'm only getting it on the internet.
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    Lifetime Movie Network no longer in Choice package?

    Wondering if someone else with the Choice package can check to see if you are still receiving Lifetime Movie Network on Channel 253? For some reason it is now "grayed out" on all four of my DVRs -- tried refreshing and restarting them, but no dice. I ran through all of the channels that I...
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    Special Hurricane Idalia Coverage on DIRECTV Satellite

    Thanks for the info -- much appreciated. In thinking about this particular situation though, the uplink and/or spot beams are part of the DirecTVs final distribution to customers -- the issue here appears to be with the path the local stations use to get their signal TO DirecTV. Example, when I...
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    Special Hurricane Idalia Coverage on DIRECTV Satellite

    Thanks. I just tuned in and now seeing WFTV (Orlando) for the first time — it’s also stretched SD.
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    Special Hurricane Idalia Coverage on DIRECTV Satellite

    Can you expand on the meanings of LABC, SWUF, and NEUF? What would be interesting is if someone here is in the Tampa area, if they could report what they‘re seeing if they tune to WTVT or WFTS. If they look like “normal” HD, then we would know that DirecTV has access to those feeds,
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    Special Hurricane Idalia Coverage on DIRECTV Satellite

    No problem. I’m trying to make sense of this myself. DirecTV is obviously getting feeds from these stations, but for many many years, you’d be hard pressed to find a station that originates an SD feed. If someone downstream desires SD, they create their own downconvert. For that reason, it makes...
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    Special Hurricane Idalia Coverage on DIRECTV Satellite

    I didn’t see a mention of that in this thread, but that wouldn’t seem to explain since local stations don’t uplink their signals to DirecTV. Rather, the station provides the signal via fiber and/or DirecTV picks it up off-air (with an antenna) at a local receive site in each market.
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    Special Hurricane Idalia Coverage on DIRECTV Satellite

    This is a mess right now — some local channels being presented as stretched SD, others window-boxed SD, and some HD.
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    General question about how signal loss manifests...

    Sorry for the late reply but for some reason I didn't realize there were replies in this thread. I blame myself. Anyway, I have no doubt you're seeing SOMETHING, though exactly what I cannot say. That's what makes this an interesting hobby -- everyone is a little different as far as what they...
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    General question about how signal loss manifests...

    I've never really taken any time to critically evaluate the quality of the satellite vs stream, but did so this afternoon. Equipment used was an HR54, Apple TV 4K, and LG 27EP950 4K monitor. Sources were sent to the same HDMI input using a patch cable. I have 200 Mbps cable internet...
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    Can a deactivated HR20 be reactivated later?

    I was hoping this was the case. Appreciate the info!
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    Can a deactivated HR20 be reactivated later?

    I'm thinking about deactivating a leased HR20. Pretty sure they won't ask for it to be returned, and assuming they don't, I'm wondering if I'd be able to reactivate it in the future, should the need arise? Thanks!
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    Limit of remotes on HR54-700?

    I don’t know if this will help but I have five RC73 remotes paired to my HR54. In addition to that, I also control it with a Harmony remote. Update: Discovered that although I *thought* had five RC73s paired, it turned out that when the fifth one was paired, it un-paired one of the others. So...
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