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    DirecTV Latin America forced to walk away from its Venezuela uplink facility

    It appears that DirecTV was the main, if not the only, source for TV news and entertainment for the Presidential Palace and for the government buildings, in addition to serving most of the population basically for free. El Nuevo Herald has been reporting that they are now basically disconnected...
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    DirecTV Latin America forced to walk away from its Venezuela uplink facility

    Source: El Nuevo Herald (Miami, Florida) has been writing extensively on this issue this week--- www.elnuevoherald.com. They explain how the government forced DTV to subsidize their service (for pennies) in order to keep the population indoors occupied. The reason given by DTV in the press...
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    DirecTV Latin America forced to walk away from its Venezuela uplink facility

    Streaming ? Are you kidding ? In Venezuela most homes are lucky if they have electricity for more than a couple of hours a day .... and running water. Millions have fled to neighboring countries as refugees. Satellite TV was government price-capped at about 50 cents per month. DTV was...
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    World Cup in 4K?

    We have already had "broadcast TV/ local stations" sports events available in 4K, such as many CBS golf tournaments.... And now the World Cup games whose "broadcast TV/ local stations" rights are owned by FOX affiliates and TELEMUNDO affiliates...... Therefore, the Super Bowl should not...
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    World Cup in 4K?

    Yes, I totally agree and hope so as well ... Isn't it incredible that FIFA will be cranking out 64 live World Cup games in 4K HDR to the whole world and the NFL has yet to put out the Super Bowl, much less any regular NFL games, in 4K HDR in the USA ???
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    World Cup in 4K?

    This is not correct... Please check your facts before posting this stuff.... The Swanni article linked to the DirecTV website only lists games thru June 24th and in that initial list 17 games in 4K HDR are from the FOX BROADCAST NETWORK, the remaining 11 are from FS 1.... There will obviously...
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    HR24 acting up, but only on two channels

    I agree with your theory, they have to be doing something unique that is affecting our receivers.....Same thing happened with my HR-24 this past Monday after it was "fixed" last time.... I see it on BBC World News- Ch. 346 which is the channel I watch the most.... There is no SD version I can go...
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    DIRECTV Down?

    BBC World News is also out ..... Why so many news channels being impacted ? Election-related hacking ???
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    Why are 4K Program Listings (Chs. 104-106) Missing in Guide ?

    So based on these replies, is it safe to say that customers with a HR-54 (with or without the C61K and with or without a 4K TV) will be able to see the listings for Channels 104-106 ? And customers with receivers BELOW the HR-54 will NOT be able to see those listings ?
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    Why are 4K Program Listings (Chs. 104-106) Missing in Guide ?

    I called DirecTV tonight to ask why program listings for Channels 104-106 are not showing up in the Program Guide.... They said that only 4K-capable receivers would be able to display those channel listings... I have HR-24's and H-25's.... Does this make any sense ? Up to now, you could see...
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    Major DIRECTV Rumor Alerts

    Thanks, Scott, great work !... This is very big news, indeed.... Question: By combining the U-Verse and DTV installation options at the AT&T Store does this mean that they're finally going to be integrating the 2 platforms' channel line-ups in early 2016 ??? In other words, as an example...
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    Directv D14 live, directv D10 down (update: D10 now working)

    Are you kidding ???.... One of DTV's major birds (D10) died today unexpectedly.... More than 40 HD channels disappeared before 2PM (ET) today, not including another 15 PPV HD channels , for a total of 55 HD channels.... It is now close to 1AM (ET) and there are still over 30 HD channels off...
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    Directv D14 live, directv D10 down (update: D10 now working)

    DirecTV loses a satellite (D10) today, the biggest news (ever ?) to hit DirecTV and the Satellite Guys site is AWOL ???..... We have to dig into a Forum to hear about it from another member ?.... Before I read this, I spent 2 hours this afternoon re-setting my receiver, checking LNB...
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    MundoFox

    Nice catch on these future new VOD channels !!!.... Is there a thread that discusses DirecTV's VOD channels ?.... I'm interested in following it.... Thanks !
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    fusion and longhorn network now live!

    OK, I see, makes sense, thanks !..... BTW, I do agree with you that, outside of UTexas fans, this is a pointless channel, irrelevant to fans of the other 5,000 universities in the USA.... Still cannot believe this channel was actually created and forced as a national service !!!
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    fusion and longhorn network now live!

    So yes, that was my point.... If there are no blackouts on Longhorn then Longhorn is not an RSN... It's simply a national sports channel just like SEC and BTN..... Which begs the question why DTV would place it in the RSN neighborhood, instead of next to BTN and SEC in the lower 600's....
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    fusion and longhorn network now live!

    So if Longhorn is being called an RSN, does that mean that there will be blackouts of sports events like there are on all the other RSN's ??? On the other hand, if there are NO blackouts on Longhorn, then it should not be labeled an RSN, right ???.... Just a national sports network, without...
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    New HD channels coming!

    A close reading of the Press Release from The Pentagon Channel does NOT specifically state that DirecTV will be adding this channel in HD.... It says that the channel will begin broadcasting in HD in the summer and that DirecTV will begin carrying the channel in the fall.... The nexus between...