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Hi all, I am a novice at electronics and a beginner at forums so please bear with me. This forum seemed like it had a lot of smart people on it so I decided to join and post my question here.
I got DirecTV back in the '90s for NFL Sunday Ticket and have enjoyed it ever since. Well, this year I found out I had to upgrade my receiver in order to watch NFL Sunday Ticket. Ok, I got the receivers (2 for the house), set them up and activated them with no problem.
In 1 room I have a receiver with a Panasonic TV and a Mitsubishi VCR. In the other room I have a Panasonic TV (HDTV Flat screen Monitor CT-32HX42F I bought in 2002) and a combination VCR/DVD player (Panasonic PV-D4752 I bought in 2002). I can't get either remote to talk to anything but the receivers.
I have spent maybe 4 hours on the phone with DirecTV today trying every code they could come up with and many codes multiple times, I went through there code search on both TVs, I tried Google and tried every remote code that I could find for any Panasonic TV and nothing has worked.
At this point I'm just trying to get the Flat Screen TV programmed into the remote. Does anyone have any ideas as to what might be going on?
(These were the instructions I followed for trying a code. Set the remote to TV, then held down mute and select at the same time, then type in the code, then hit the power button, if the TV goes off you're done. My TV never did anything for any code I tried.)
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Ray
(Java Programmer in St. Louis.)
I got DirecTV back in the '90s for NFL Sunday Ticket and have enjoyed it ever since. Well, this year I found out I had to upgrade my receiver in order to watch NFL Sunday Ticket. Ok, I got the receivers (2 for the house), set them up and activated them with no problem.
In 1 room I have a receiver with a Panasonic TV and a Mitsubishi VCR. In the other room I have a Panasonic TV (HDTV Flat screen Monitor CT-32HX42F I bought in 2002) and a combination VCR/DVD player (Panasonic PV-D4752 I bought in 2002). I can't get either remote to talk to anything but the receivers.
I have spent maybe 4 hours on the phone with DirecTV today trying every code they could come up with and many codes multiple times, I went through there code search on both TVs, I tried Google and tried every remote code that I could find for any Panasonic TV and nothing has worked.
At this point I'm just trying to get the Flat Screen TV programmed into the remote. Does anyone have any ideas as to what might be going on?
(These were the instructions I followed for trying a code. Set the remote to TV, then held down mute and select at the same time, then type in the code, then hit the power button, if the TV goes off you're done. My TV never did anything for any code I tried.)
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Ray
(Java Programmer in St. Louis.)
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I guess you missed the "I suppose it's possible" part.
I too have had some bad luck when it comes to purchasing multiple products & having them both fail; the fact that he spent hours with tech support supports his theory.
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Bingo. My TVs are up and running.
The short version is that, when you press the mute and select, you need to keep on holding it until the light under TV flashes twice. No body ever said that, they just said hold down mute and select and when you see two flashes that's it.
Ok, the long story. I call DirecTV and get a very friendly girl. I explained that I thought I had a bad remote and why I thought that and she sent me to the protection plan people (because I have that). Ok, so I explain my story to her again. She tries 1 code and it didn't work. So she has me let the remote go through all of its codes with me pressing the channel up button. Nothing was happening. Ok, after about 10 minutes she said to stop because it had been through all of the codes. I knew better, the documentation says that when it runs out that it would flash at the top of the remote which it hadn't. Then she tried to tell me that since I had a Panasonic there were only 35 codes and the remote would stop after 35 codes. Now how would my unprogrammed remote know that the TV I was trying to program it for was a Panasonic? So I ask for her supervisor. When he came on we went through it again. This time I am going slow and telling him every flash and where it happens. For the first time he said it was supposed to flash twice under the TV letters. I was supposed to keep holding the mute select until the remote flashed twice under the TV letters. Now I had asked this maybe 3 times to other people and they said that what I was doing was fine, this guy heard what I said and knew better. Ok, so I hold it down and get the flashes and bingo, my TV gets programmed.
Boy, what trouble that was. Hope the programming for the VCRs goes better
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Thanks everyone for all of your help and suggestions.
Ray
The short version is that, when you press the mute and select, you need to keep on holding it until the light under TV flashes twice. No body ever said that, they just said hold down mute and select and when you see two flashes that's it.
Ok, the long story. I call DirecTV and get a very friendly girl. I explained that I thought I had a bad remote and why I thought that and she sent me to the protection plan people (because I have that). Ok, so I explain my story to her again. She tries 1 code and it didn't work. So she has me let the remote go through all of its codes with me pressing the channel up button. Nothing was happening. Ok, after about 10 minutes she said to stop because it had been through all of the codes. I knew better, the documentation says that when it runs out that it would flash at the top of the remote which it hadn't. Then she tried to tell me that since I had a Panasonic there were only 35 codes and the remote would stop after 35 codes. Now how would my unprogrammed remote know that the TV I was trying to program it for was a Panasonic? So I ask for her supervisor. When he came on we went through it again. This time I am going slow and telling him every flash and where it happens. For the first time he said it was supposed to flash twice under the TV letters. I was supposed to keep holding the mute select until the remote flashed twice under the TV letters. Now I had asked this maybe 3 times to other people and they said that what I was doing was fine, this guy heard what I said and knew better. Ok, so I hold it down and get the flashes and bingo, my TV gets programmed.
Boy, what trouble that was. Hope the programming for the VCRs goes better
.Thanks everyone for all of your help and suggestions.
Ray
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So let the game continue!
The last song was added by Bobby who posted...
One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters
CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!
Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game
Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.
Example:
Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow
Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
Another example:
Ride the Lightning -- Metallica
Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne
Get it?
An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
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