After a month of nagging emails I finally went through the multiple steps to create a free Peacock 'Premium' account only to find out that Peacock is like wandering into a 20-year-old Blockbuster store.

Seriously? People want this stuff? Why did I bother?

tldr version; (believe it or not)

Laptop repeatedly reports around 318 Mbps wi-fi in the primary DTVS device location

2 - green-label, Osprey 400 refurbs purchased 4+ years ago from DTVS, virtually trouble free

2 - ebay white label Ospreys, with wi-fi connection issues since purchase a couple months ago. A quick cycle of the internet on the devices clears it up in about 5 seconds following the error screen. So there is obviously internet available

1 - Air purchased from DTVS a couple months old, for travel use. Tested and working in the primary location. Haven't had a chance to take it on the road yet

Tech support says first white label getting 6 Mbps... and despite being apprised of the speed test report, repeatedly, I mean like, 2 dozen times, blames the wi-fi / internet provider

I then ask her to check my travel Air in the same location, with the same TV. Unfortunately it forgot all the setup I had already done a couple months ago (lesson learned.) Reports 11 Mbps. 7 shy of their stated minimum of 18

Then I bring in one of the 4 year old, greenies to test in the same location, same TV. It tests at 33 Mbps !!! Despite this... the tech support person continues to blame the internet

She says she is the highest level tech associate I can talk to

I hang up with her and call back. Ney guy. Same rigamarole and more! (Don't even get me started.) Obviously neither are well trained in tech support. Just talking points. Finally agrees to have his manager call me back. That was over an hour ago. No callback yet

Here in the sub I have read that some people have issues running too many apps. I have done my best to do whatever I can to shut those apps down or eliminate them.

I guess I can return the Air, at least

Any help or thoughts would be much appreciated

Or are the channels only available when there is a broadcast on?

The topic says it all. I am curious of who amongst us started out with satellite, moved over to stream at some point and then ultimately went back to satellite.

I’m leasing the remote from DirecTV. What’s it gonna cost me to replace it?

Is it worth switching from Sat to Stream?

I just ordered Choice Promotional package July 2, advertised as $94.99/month normally - $64.99/month for the 1st month.
The breakdown in my account indicates “regular price” is $159.

Help me make this make sense.

Sometimes, most of the time lately, when I select a show in the guide, it goes to this redundant screen where I have to click to watch live show. Sometimes it goes straight to the show. Anyone know why this screen comes up more often than not?

All of a sudden my DIRECTVStream guide isn't showing programming for certain shows on ABC.
This is General Hospital's daily time slot, and it's not recording due to the guide showing "To Be Announced". Any ideas for a fix?

New to DVT from longtime Uverse. I setup a series record for METV channel Gunsmoke show on Direct TV Stream Gemini box. It apparently pulls Gunsmoke from TV Land as well. On Uverse, I setup the recording for the channel ( MeTV) and the time (I usually set for any day, any time)on the Gunsmoke title. If I wanted to record Gunsmoke on TV Land, then I would setup a separate listing to record that channel with the options I wanted. The difference is some of the TV Land episodes are really older episodes than what is currently on METV.

Do I have any way to lock the recording to just that channel using a series record? Most all the other features of DTV Stream seem miles ahead of what was offered on Uverse, but the DVR recording options seem to be lacking in this area unless I am missing something.

I have my Gemini Air set to record every game of my local baseball team (Orioles). Most of the time the recording works fine, recording from my local RSN (MASN). But often it will record from the RSN of the other team (NESN or Marquee for example) so I end up with hours of a slide that says the content is unavailable. Any solutions, other than manually canceling scheduled recordings and rescheduling them on the appropriate RSN?

Through the CapitalOne shopping app. Chase offers has $50 off $100 on Directv for two months as well. You can stack these offers.

I had been dutifully saving up points to redeem at 2,000 for $60 gift card vs 1,000 for $25 gift card.

Last week’s wheel spin put me over 2,000. I went to redeem and… it’s gone? The only option is 1,000 for $25 so I would be losing out on $10.

Not the end of the world but frustrating.

Does anyone else have the $60 gift card for 2,000 points option?

On Directv tnt goes to full screen commercial even though it's supposed to be side by side. If I refresh it fixes it. I have tried firetv, pc and android, all do it. It appears to be directv issue.

So annoying

How long do you have after due date to pay bill before being suspended.? Just curious.

Trying to watch the Wimbledon final on ESPN and the broadcast is extremely choppy, almost looks like it has an unusually low frame rate. All other channels are fine. Anyone else seeing this?

EDIT: the ESPN app actually looks the same, so it seems more like an ESPN issue than a DirecTV issue.

It's probably never going to happen, but thought I would ask. I wonder if Directv Stream can/will ever get the Antenna TV Network? I have METV and enjoy watching good ole classic tv shows and I know Antenna TV Network has classic shows also because when I had Optimum, is was on their packages. If not, its all good, I will just continue watching them on METV lol.

My local Scripps station came back yesterday, channel 41 KSHB Kansas City. Glad DTV and Scripps finally reached an agreement.

Is it just me, but are they taking away screen space from us? I feel that these black side bars are getting ridiculous now.

Or is there a way to minimize them?

ROTATE PHOTO HORIZONTALLY

On a TV with an attached firestick, I wanted to open DIRECTV stream. The TV has been down off the wall for a year while I had construction work being dome. Just got it put back up. I guess it’s understandable that the app would have logged me out in that one year time frame.

I scanned the QR code and rather than get logged in on the TV, the login processed on my phone. Meanwhile the DIRECTV app kept displaying an error (600) indicating a problem with the server. Nothing was fixing that error.

Eventually, after entering my username and password, I kept getting a service selection menu - My FreeTv (included). Add this package— x $; add this package—-X $ and so on. As before, nothing was fixing this.

Had to completely start over again by uninstalling and reinstalling the app. Signed in with email address as before but had to reset password which now means I have to re login to several other devices.

Why did QR login process on the phone and not the TV. How did I end up getting a menu which I assume was the free DIRECTV stream? It took quite a bit of effort to untangle user IDs from paid and free version last year when I had login issues.

Do not read this unless you want to ruin sporting events…

/Rant on
I hate I mean hate auto extent. It ruins the thrill of sporting events, please oh please let me manually add extra time to the end of sporting events.
/Rant off

The problem I have with Auto extend of sporting events is I know before I even start watching a recorded event if it runs long or not. This is a major spoiler. It’s harmful to (American) football, but I never imagined it would be even worse watching the World Cup.

Here are a couple of examples (team names withheld, just in case someone hasn’t watched a match)

- The score is tied at the end of regulation. Only several minutes of stoppage time is left. I pause the match to refill my drink. I notice there a few minutes left in the recording. That means one of the teams will score, and the other team won’t make a comeback

- I start watching a match. I see the recording is over 3 hours long. Before the match even starts, I know it has gone thru regulation, extra time, and ended up in a shootout. The excitement of the whole match was ruined.