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    One-time billing snafu or is this typical?

    Well, I just received my third bill from DirecTV. Instead of the roughly $50 bill I was expecting, I saw they charged my credit card $154 dollars! When I started looking the bill over, I noticed that they conveniently left off $103 dollars worth of credits that I'm supposed to be receiving. Is...
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    Television changing source. Looking for ideas on how to narrow down...

    I have a very strange situation taking place with my new television and DirecTV setup. I say it's happening with the setup because we had DirecTV service with a Genie DVR installed at the same time that we got a brand-new Samsung UN46F6400 46-Inch television and I have no idea what is causing...
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    Can I get to timers list with no signal to receiver?

    I feel pretty silly but, is there any way to get at a timers list on a ViP722 with no signal coming to it? I got a great intro deal that Dish couldn't beat that'll save me about $700 and switched, at least for the next two years, to DirecTV. They hooked up yesterday, the Dish Network dish is...
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    Can Genie access local media files?

    Well, I took the plunge. I signed up for DirecTV today. They'll be coming to install our Genie and Genie Mini Saturday afternoon. We're really looking forward to it. I have a question about streaming/accessing local media. I have a local network inside my house but we have no wired high-speed...
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    Do all new customer installs get newer Genie equipment?

    Should I assume that, if I sign up for new service tomorrow, that I would be getting the latest version of the Genie and Genie Mini, the HR44 and C41, respectively? Also, we don't have "real" wired high-speed Internet available where we live. We have expensive, slow, extremely bandwidth capped...
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    Dish Network customer with questions about switching

    I've been a Dish Network customer for years and I'm considering jumping ship. I've had no major problems with service but my wife and I just bought a new Samsung television from Best Buy. While we were there, a DirecTV rep approached us and started talking to us about service. I mentioned that...
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    Considering Hopper. Can Joey be mobile?

    My home is down to pretty much my wife and I most of the time so, even though we six TVs, we never have more than two going at any given time. We have the main television in our living room and most of the other watching is done in our bedroom. Occasionally though we will want to watch from our...
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    Strange signal loss behavior?

    As I mentioned in a previous post, I had twenty-year-old mess of wires, switches and splitters under my house and my wife wanted me to move/change the receivers around in our house so I gutted most everything and installed new wiring pretty much everywhere. I left the main coax from my antenna...
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    How many dishes should I have?

    OK, my wife and I live in a thirty year-old house that has had satellite since it went popular, all the way back to the large K-band dishes. The house was switched over in the mid-90s when the smaller dishes came out. There are enough wires, switches and splitters to reinvent Eniac I think. I...