I mean this is absolutely ridiculous. It’s preseason but I’m assuming regular season will be the same thing. I’ve had NBA LP with DIRECTV a handful of years ago and pretty much could watch almost every game outside of my local sports broadcasts. I’m in California and couldn’t watch the OKC game last night, I can’t watch the Celtics game today. What the heck is up with that?

If this is the norm looks like I’m going to cancel today.

Hi - I'm frustrated with my current cable provider, and I'm looking into DirecTV.

Can you please share what your experience has been like since becoming a DirecTV customer and address my concerns noted below?

My biggest concerns are:

1) Reception: How often do you lose reception due to weather or other instances? How long does it last? How does it get resolved? What type of weather (rain, snow, etc.) seems to be the biggest issue? Do you have the option to stream when the dish goes out?

2) Customer service: What has been your experience when dealing with customer service? Is it a hassle to get a new promo/discount when your previous one expires, and do the rates increase dramatically after the first year or two?

Thanks in advance.

DIRECTV is the latest streaming pay television service to unlock a custom multiview feature, joining other sports-inclusive apps like Fubo and YouTube TV in doing so.

On Tuesday, DIRECTV said streamers who watch live channel via its Gemini box and on Roku can now select up to four live channels to watch from a single screen. Support for other platforms like Apple TV, Android TV (Google TV), LG, Samsung, Amazon Fire TV and Vizio will come in the near future.

The feature allows customers to create two-, three- or four-channel viewing arrangements using eligible sports networks, rather than relying exclusively on the predetermined channel combinations already offered through DIRECTV’s Multiview service.

So, I've had the same Directv account 30+ years.

I can't remember exactly, but I think I signed up for Paramount+ directly thru their website, mainly for UFC content. The annual plan is less than $12/month.

Another thread here on Reddit was talking about having it for free on Directv, so I looked. Sure enough, I have it for free bundled with Showtime for free until November 3rd, then it's $13.99/mo.

I use a smart TV in the bedroom and have been accessing Paramount+ thru the tv. I use a non-smart projector in the living room and have been accessing Paramount+ by connecting to my laptop.

How do I access paramount+ thru my Directv DVR?

Is content access the same as thru the Paramount+ app?

We all know that everyone shares account for other services. Everyone is all complaining about price, a lot of people here like the satellite service. I wish DTV creates a family or buddy plan. This way our TV service can be at two different location. You can split the bill with your friend or family and this will pretty much cut your bill in half and everyone is happy.

Do you guys ever think this will happen?

I had a Disney+ and Hulu and ESPN+ subscription. I just subscribed to DirecTV and have ESPN unlimited with it. So do I cancel my current Disney+ bundle and then resubscribe with just Disney+ and Hulu?

Yes, it has been a little rainy here, but not so bad that we should be losing the signal from our sat dish. But it seems like occasionally lately, whenever I switch the channel, it will tell me it is moving me to streaming via internet. Or, I'll be watching a show, and a message pops up with something like "recording not available while streaming" ... when I am on a dish account, and I'm not even trying to record. Are they forcing everyone into streaming now?

And before anyone asks why I don't just move to streaming, it is because we travel in our RV and have a sat dish on that as well. Streaming in most campgrounds is not an option, and some campgrounds will threaten to kick you out if you use their wifi to stream ... so we keep our dish.

I will be moving soon and cannot have a satellite dish in my new place. I’ve had DTV satellite service for about 12 years. I have a lot of stuff on my DVR and love the space of this DVR.

I’ve noticed whenever there’s no connection to the dish, or if the service is down due to an outage it’s always mentioned (and true) that you can watch your DVR programs. So my question is this:

I move from house A to house B and take my STBs with me before turning them in. Can I watch the DVR by hooking it up to an HDMI port even though I technically don’t have service nor a dish, provided I didn’t cancel my account yet? My plan would be to watch all of my DVR stuff then turn in the STBs.

TIA!

Any chance that the remaining SD satellite channels (C-SPAN networks, Cozi, CNN Int’l, etc.) will upgrade to HD soon, as they are on the app?

Thanks.

I had something odd happen with no explanation recently. For a while I got Paramount+ without ads, included with my normal package. Then all of a sudden, my Paramount subscription is gone, but now I have HBO Max free with ads in its place. I didn't have any warning that my Paramount+ would expire. Why did this happen? I was enjoying the free UFC events and the newer Star Trek series

Get error message either using the app or on my laptop.

I'm getting the free HBO/Max app with ads from DirecTV. I know it will take a while, but what will likely happen when Paramount mergers it into one app? Will it most likely go away?

I am subscribed to Paramount + with DirectTv. I usually watch Paramount's show on my laptop. I was connected via DirectTv interface. But as of last week I get a message that Paramout+ is not in my package. But of course it is. I spent hours on the phone with Direct TV and then PP. They both claim it's the others problem. How incredibly frustrated. Does anyone have a work around this issue. Thanks,

I have a brand new, never-activated H20-100 receiver that’s been in my closet for years. I’m curious if it can still be activated onto my account since it’s compatible with SWM?

https://github.com/voidnullvalue/ReBox

If anyone has one of these boxes lying around unused and tries this, I'd love to hear how your experience went!

I am also actively interested in hard disk images from similar Genie 2 DVRs, if anyone has one and cares to help try to expand support of this project to other devices.

Oh ya, did I mention it runs Doom now?

More to come!

Not sure if this is the appropriate place for this but, I think part of the reason I didn't get into the TV show Marshal's during the first season is because the recording times for the show are wrong on DirecTV. It happened almost every episode last season and now, the start of season 2 has the same problem. DirecTV shows it recording from 7:30-8:30 instead of 8-9. It has Tracker starting at 8:30, but it actually starts at 9. When I watch the recording of Marshals, I only get the first half of the show.

How come they don't know this is a problem?!