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  1. dcwebman

    Free NFL/ST?

    This is interesting. This year will be my 25th year with DirecTV and Sunday Ticket. I have NEVER gotten Sunday Ticket for free. After a number of years after they split out RedZone from the regular Sunday Ticket, I had to start begging every year like most people for something. I would say about...
  2. dcwebman

    DirecTV Sunday Ticket south of the border?

    Perfect, thanks!
  3. dcwebman

    DirecTV Sunday Ticket south of the border?

    Thanks. That DTV rep obviously was wrong. The NFL Live Streaming right now seems the most promising, as long as I'm not in certain countries: "NFL Game Pass is only available to users located outside the United States, Bermuda, Antigua, the Bahamas, and any U.S. territories, possessions and...
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    DirecTV Sunday Ticket south of the border?

    Just started looking as to where, because I plan on visiting these places for the next 3-5 years to determine if I like the location to move to. In Mexico, I have seen San Miguel de Allende, Lake Chapala, and Guanajuato which would be interesting to look into. As far as an address in the US, I...
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    DirecTV Sunday Ticket south of the border?

    I probably already know my answer after searching through here, calling DirecTV twice with both people knowing nothing, but I am considering retiring somewhere south, either Mexico or the Caribbean. All I need DTV for is to watch my favorite NFL team for which I have been doing for 22 years on...
  6. dcwebman

    HR20/700 Sometimes Refuses to Play

    I've been having the same problem. Finally called DTV last night and they said it's a known problem with a software fix coming out "soon"
  7. dcwebman

    Losing video on Samsung TV

    It's the Onkyo receiver. Even with the new motherboard in the TV, I still get the flickers whether it's coming from the component connected DVR or the HDMI connected one. I just deal with it and change the source or channel. Some day it will be an upgraded receiver that's not an Onkyo and...
  8. dcwebman

    Digital TV transition OTA issues

    Receiver Model: HR20-700 (2 of them) DMA/Market: Houston Zip Code: 77379 Channel Call Letters: KHOU Channel Number Showing in Guide: 11-1,11-2 Issue(s): One receiver detects and displays the channel fine even though the signal strength is low. The other will not detect it and gets no signal...
  9. dcwebman

    Houston OTA channels

    Supposedly the 4228 does channels 9-13 which means that I should be able to pick up 11 and 13 with no problem. I am on the one DVR but not the other. Now on the other today I am getting 11-1 at 50% on one tuner but not the other. The other DVR is still working fine. Is anybody else seeing this...
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    Houston OTA channels

    Since channels 11 and 13 have gone back to the VHF range, my great Channel Master 4228 antenna is now getting a lower signal on those channels. But what's weird is that I have 2 DVRs hooked up to the antenna. Both are a HR20/700 running the latest 0x312 software. 13-1 has about a 86%...
  11. dcwebman

    Losing video on Samsung TV

    Not totally. I never got to the point of hooking the DVRs up directly to the TV and bypassing the receiver. He did say that through his experience there is sometimes just an incompatibility between certain receivers and Samsung TV's so I'm thinking that's probably the case here.
  12. dcwebman

    Losing video on Samsung TV

    Oops, the problem has occurred again so it wasn't the TV. He said if it did happen it has to be a compatibility problem so I'm betting it's my Onkyo receiver. Oh well, at least it's not a drastic issue because once it happens when I first turn the TV on and I get the video back, it's good until...
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    Losing video on Samsung TV

    OK, the repair guy just left. He hesitated a bit but once he heard I saw the TV menus over the snow, the main board was replaced. He said if it happens again, then it's not the TV and just an incompatibility with one of my other devices. Board details: MODULE: T-AMBAUSC-2008.9 DATE: PANEL...
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    Losing video on Samsung TV

    Turns out the problem happened this morning. I was able to see the TV's menu over the snowy picture so they said it's the main board that needs to be replaced. Will order it and in 5 or so days will call for a time to change it.
  15. dcwebman

    Losing video on Samsung TV

    Well now I need to wait for it to happen again which could be like 3 weeks or so. When it happens, I need to see if the TV remote's Menu or Info button brings up a menu. That will tell them whether it's the main board or another part that needs to be replaced. They're pretty sure it's not a...
  16. dcwebman

    Losing video on Samsung TV

    Coincidentally I had the one DVR hooked up to the receiver via component cables as the default when everything was turned on yesterday. Same problem occurred. It had been 3 weeks since I had changed the one DVR's HDMI cable to the receiver and had tried to keep that as the default just to see if...
  17. dcwebman

    HR20 Pixelation on recorded programs, Live TV OK

    I haven't that error yet, thankfully. On new recordings I am still getting the video artifacts from different stations. I hesitate to call D* because I also have a about 5 movies taped that I want to watch first in case they tell me to reformat. It's weird too that the audio sometimes cuts out...
  18. dcwebman

    HR20 Pixelation on recorded programs, Live TV OK

    Guess I didn't have to look far for people with the same problem I'm having now. I recorded a bunch of movies over the weekend with the Starz preview and have video artifacts all over them. The audio occasionally goes out but if I back up, the audio will come back. I restarted the receiver...
  19. dcwebman

    Free Preview: Starz 3/19-3/22

    I went through all the days of supposedly free and recorded a bunch of movies. Turned out only a couple actually got required, mostly the kids channel. The day I tried them all before setting up the recordings they worked. Oh well, keep it in the Netflix queue.
  20. dcwebman

    Losing video on Samsung TV

    Apparently Samsung didn't bother transferring the firmware updates to the 650's as they said I have the latest. I'll let them know that though!
  21. dcwebman

    Losing video on Samsung TV

    OK, since my last post I have started up my setup with the component cable connected HR20 and there hasn't been a problem. So as it was suggested, there apparently is still a problem between the Samsung TVs and the HDMI connected HR20. Now you know that Samsung will say it's DirecTV's fault and...
  22. dcwebman

    Losing video on Samsung TV

    Before rewiring everything and doing the connecting of both DVRs to the TV via HDMI, I left the one DVR connected via HDMI to the receiver as the primary video that would start up this morning. As soon as I turned the TV and receiver on, the problem happened. I have no idea why this doesn't...
  23. dcwebman

    Losing video on Samsung TV

    Thanks for the suggestions. I wish this problem was easily reproducible because it would make things a lot easier to debug. The problem is it was one week between the times it happened last time. Now if it is an HDMI problem some of those nights I could have left it on the non-HDMI DVR which...
  24. dcwebman

    Losing video on Samsung TV

    Valid question as to which DVR and Samsung asked me that too. I wish I would have kept track which DVR it was when the problem happened but I just knew the workaround and didn't pay attention. Now I will. I don't see the sparkles like that YouTube video so I guess that's good. :-)...
  25. dcwebman

    Losing video on Samsung TV

    No I haven't done that yet in the debug process. I was hoping that Samsung would say they knew the problem and give a firmware update instead of having to redo my whole setup to figure out what the problem may be. The problem is that the issue doesn't happen all the time otherwise it would be...